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SHORT BIO > Toronto-based guitarist Margaret Stowe has performed all over Canada and Europe. A versatile, jazz-based guitarist and bandleader for over 2 decades, she has worked with and accompanied a host of artists including Jackie Richardson, Ellen McIlwaine, Georgette Fry, Rita Chiarelli, Suzie Vinnick, Mose Scarlett, Jackie Washington, Lorraine Segato, Salome Bey, Cheryl Lescom, Phynix, Big Rude Jake and the incomparable Daisy DeBolt. She has worked in musical theatre including 2 runs of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. She has performed with several symphony orchestras, done concerts with Brass Roots and the Swing Sisters, and has been a member of the Canadian Modernaires Orchestra and the Jazz Writer's Workshop. She studied with Robert Fripp and Joe Pass and conceived a blues orchestra show, You Gotta Reap Just What You Sow. She has been guitarist for the Toronto Blues Society's Women's Blue Revue since 1997. Margaret also performs with the Missa Gaia Jazz Ensemble. She has taught at the National Guitar Workshop and was a featured artist at the TBS Toronto Guitar Workshop and the 2005 Hornby Island Blues Workshop. Margaret's S'Women In Blues shows include performances at TUZA Music & Arts Festival Toronto, and Winterfolk, Toronto. She also works as a freelance guitarist and plays with her own jazz group, Margaret Stowe Band. Three cds of original music Things I Do, Resonance and Adventures of the Red Guitar EP, with guests including Daisy DeBolt and Harry Manx.
PLAYED THERE >> Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Sunfest World Music Festival London, Cognac Blues Festival Cognac France, Blue Balls Jazz/Blues Festival Lucerne Switzerland, Hamburg Jazz Festival Hamburg Germany, Hugh's Room Toronto, The Louvre Paris France, TUZA Music & Arts Festival Toronto, Women's Voices Festival Ottawa, Massey Hall Toronto, Grand Theatre London, National Arts Centre Ottawa, Limelight Theatre Toronto, Rasputin's Folk Club Ottawa, Tribute to Yellow Door Coffee House Montreal, Guelph Jazz Festival, Waterloo Jazz Festival, Orangeville Jazz & Blues Festival, Orillia Jazz Festival, Summerfolk Folk Music Festival, Lee's Palace Toronto, TUZA Music & Arts Festival, Trane Studio Toronto, Waterloo Guitar Summit, National Guitar Workshop, TBS Toronto Guitar Workshop, Hornby Island Blues Workshop, Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival Fredericton NB, Festival Place Theatre Edmonton AB, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Festival of Friends Hamilton, Windsor Int'l Blues Festival, Detroit Int'l Blues Festival, London Jazz Festival, Oakville Downtown Jazz Festival.
WORKED WITH >> Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well and Living In Paris, Eine Kleine Klezmermusik, Jazzu, Sam Evening Band, Pelley-Stowe Band, Georgette Fry, Cheryl Lescom, Canadian Modernaires Orchestra, Brassroots, Jazz Writer's Workshop, Oliver Whitehead, Grand River Ladies of the Blues, Alec Richmond, Margaret Stowe Group, Sister Act, Doreen Smith, Sarah Latendresse, You Gotta Reap Just What You Sow, Grease, Boogie Bob, JAZZU, S'Women In Blues, Rita Chiarelli, TBS Women's Blues Revue Band, Suzie Vinnick, Miss Angel Brown, S.H.A.R.O.N, Diana Braithwaite, Brenda Lewis, Colleen Allen, Daisy DeBolt, Amos Garrett, Ellen McIlwaine, Johnny Favourite, Michael Keys, Tony Quarrington, Mose Scarlett, Jackie Washington, Salome Bey, Jackie Richardson, Carole Pope, Lee Aaron, Precilla Wright, Lorraine Segato, Jane Bunnett, Bluewoman Group, Kathryn Moses, Lina Allemano, Shakura S'Aida, Phynix, Big Rude Jake, Missa Gaia Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra London, Orchestra Toronto, Edmonton/Kitchener/Waterloo Symphony Orchestras, Della Reese, Richard Hyman, Al Simmons, Glenn Bennett, Marie Bottrell, Denise Pelley Hot Latkes Klezmer Band, Jeans & Classics.
Influences: Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Emily Remler, Duke Robillard.
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