JOAN BECKOW LEGACY PROJECT

Who is Joan Beckow? 

Not all remarkable creators get the spotlight they deserve, and the Joan Beckow Legacy Project came into existence to produce the debut, albeit posthumous album of brilliant and under-celebrated female, Jewish, Canadian composer, Joan Beckow, who passed away at age 88 in January 2021.

Beckow’s work has been performed on-stage hundreds, even thousands of times, but never in her 50+ year career was her music professionally recorded. Enter the Joan Beckow Legacy Project: 22 songs, 30 musicians, recorded live-off-the-floor on both sides of the country to produce a double-disc album under the musical direction of mother/daughter duo Wendy Bross Stuart (Vancouver, via New York), and Jessica Stuart (Toronto, via Vancouver). 

The Joan Beckow Legacy Project double album and short documentary (to be released Nov 2022) will finally give these special pieces a chance to live on long beyond the life of their author, Joan Beckow. z”l