Louise Boisvert began her stage and musical career at age seven in tap dance class. By age 13 she was performing with dance companies and won many awards in competitions. She began to sing at an early age while listening and imitating her sister in voice lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Victoria. By age 14 she had won many of her own vocal and dance awards at music festivals. She graduated from high school in North Vancouver and found her vocal passion through a competitive jazz quartet.

Boisvert has over 20 years of performance experience including professional dance companies in Vancouver and a performing cast member of the North Shore Light Opera Society.

Boisvert retired from professional dancing and moved to the Okanagan in 1997 with her husband, Stéphane and she is the proud mother of six year old Elise. She has been a performer and member with the Lake Country Performing Arts Society and functions for the Rotary Club as well as Full House Productions.

Boisvert still enjoys her musical hobbies while maintaining her professional career as an Employee Benefits Broker, Service Specialist with Glendinning Insurance Services. She is an active part of the Lake Country Community through her volunteer work at local retirement homes and in helping organize theatre events and fundraisers.

Boisvert is thrilled to be accompanied on stage by her very talented musician friends. She is first to share that “without them, the music just wouldn’t be as palatable to the ear!”

Jennifer Boal moved to the Okanagan in 1997 with her high school sweetheart, Sean. They married in 1998 and have created a loving family including their seven year old daughter, Sophia, and their 22 month old son, Benjamin.

Music has always provided an escape and inspiration for Boal. Her older brother, Alex, inspired her to learn how to play the guitar so that she could put his poetry to music and create original songs.

After a few years of playing, a musical audition earned her an invitation to attend a songwriting workshop by Bill Henderson and Roy Forbes held in Summerland. This experience profoundly improved her confidence in her musical skills and gave her the courage to enter two of her songs into an international songwriting contest. Her songs, Save Us, and Shadow of Midnight, moved on to the second round of judging from the original fifteen thousand entrants received from all over Canada and the United States.

Performing at coffee house singer/songwriting evenings and weddings, as well as producing work related musical showcases, filled her need to be surrounded by musical creativity while still enjoying her professional career as a teacher.

LyPService is an all-girl trio, filled with energy and zest and colourful harmonies. They sing a mix of jazz standards, good-old-rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm and blues, and contemporary favourites. The band members are Shelly Vida, Sharon Butler, and Tricia Dalgleish. Vida and Butler both add their own flare on percussive instruments, while Dalgleish is on keyboard.

LyPService is serving up the music you want to hear!

Called “a powerhouse of our songwriting community” by the Kelowna Capital News, Jane Eamon has earned five Okanagan Valley Music Awards and eight songwriting prizes, including Honour Awards from the Unisong and Great American Song Contests and an honourable mention from the Billboard Song Contest.

Her passion for sharing her gift with others also made her a finalist for the 2006 Angel Award and the first Okanagan Arts Awards in 2007 for outstanding contribution to the arts.  

Eamon’s soulful, spiritual, and easygoing sound combines elements of country, folk blues, gospel and Celtic music, and many of her songs sound more like traditional numbers than recent compositions.  Her instantly familiar sounding alto evokes shades of
everyone from Connie Kaldor to KD Lang, Linda Tillery and Heather Bishop.

She has been named Best Folk Artist for the past three years in a row at the Okanagan Valley Music Awards.  She also took the 2005 awards for Best Songwriter and Best Female Artist.

Teena Ree Gowdy began singing with her siblings in their family quartet at a very young age. She was raised in California and sang solos with her mother as well as in the church choir. After high school, she traveled and sang all over the US, and parts of New Zealand. She received her layman critiquing from noted artist Barry McGuire, with countless hours of listening and imitating and perfecting the sounds from a variety of her favorite female vocalists.

Gowdy has lived in the Okanagan Valley since 1985, She has an intense passion for singing. She prides herself in being able to perform anything from the oldies of the 20s, 30s and 40s jazz, to pop, gospel and rhythm and blues.

Gowdy has performed at Art Walk, Bistro Gallery and Ricardos Mediterranean Restaurant.