Juno-Award-winning musician Lester Quitzau is bringing his Earth-friendly, soul-drenched blues tunes to Red Deer’s Elks Lodge on Friday.
The Edmonton-raised musician’s latest CD is called The Same Light, which summarizes his approach to life.
The title track, is about “how life is one energy, how everything is part of one vibration, the plants and the people. It’s about how we’re all interconnected and how there’s this spark in us that really wants to shine and be alive,” Quitzau has said.
Material on the CD ranges from lyric-driven songs to instrumental tracks, such as Shapeshifter, which was created when a bass player spontaneously broke out into a new groove and the other musicians jumped in to jam.
“It was like spontaneous combustion,” recalled Quitzau, who lives the granola lifestyle on one of British Columbia’s smaller Gulf Islands with his wife, singer Mae Moore.
The couple raise their own organic food and avoid airplane travel whenever possible to reduce their footprint on the Earth.
Before becoming a professional musician, Quitzau was a pioneer snowboarder, placing fifth at a 1985 international snowboarding competition, riding on a board without steel edges.
His driving force has always been a desire to grow and evolve — which is apparent in Quitzau’s music, which shifts between genres, but always echoes his values.
The Central Music Festival Society presents the Lester Quitzau Trio, with special guest John Rutherford, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $30 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.