True Jive Pluckers

3 True Jive Pluckers + 1 Audience = An Event

Ed Minevich (violin), Jack Semple (guitar), and Stephen McLellan (bass) together form the True Jive Pluckers. These three dynamic showmen defy the traditional, the ordinary, and they do this by combining their individual talents, charm and years of experience as musicians, to create shows that encompass a broad variety of musical genres. Everything from jazz to blues, swing, rock, country, klezmer, gypsy, classical and tango, with their own original arrangements and some original compositions - they do it all and they do it very well.

 

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"THE EVENING WAS A REFRESHING BALANCE OF POLISHED SKILL, CHARISMATIC PERSONALITIES, AND GOOD OLD-FASHIONED COMEDY AND ENTERTAINMENT. IT WAS A REMINDER TO US ALL TO REMEMBER THAT MUSIC IS ABOUT THE ENJOYMENT THAT IS SHARED BETWEEN THE PERFORMERS AND AUDIENCE ALIKE." - HAMILTON SPECTATOR

Ed doesn’t like to limit his musical tastes. Although strictly classically educated at the prestigious St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, he is not strictly a classical musician. He particularly likes to explore the worlds of Jazz, Gypsy, Klezmer and his favorite, Tango. Ed’s musical career has been a cosmopolitan one, taking him around the globe as a soloist and music director, playing for such eminent state figures as President Putin, Prince Charles and his mum, Queen Elizabeth.

 He and Canadian fiddle champion, Frank Leahy, wrote and arranged the shows Bending The Bows and Road To Carnegie, which they have performed with many, major Canadian and American orchestras. Since arriving in Regina as Concert Master of the Regina Symphony Orchestra he has been thrilled to undertake new musical adventures with his soul mates, Jack and Steve. He especially enjoys arranging music for the “Pluckers”.

Jack Semple has played everywhere from the Vancouver to the Montreaux Jazz Festivals. He has worked for CBC radio and TV, won a Juno Award, and shared the stage with a wide range of top artists from Martha Reeves, to k.d. lang and Ronnie Hawkins. In 1992 he was the national winner of the Much Music “Guitar Wars” competition. Jack has recorded extensively and recently won a Western Canadian Music Award for his acoustic CD “Qu’Appelle”.

Heralded as a blues guitar virtuoso, he is also an acclaimed composer and has many movie scores and television themes to his credit, including the film Guitarman, in which he also played the title role. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Jack loves the prairies. Regina is where he chooses to make his home and as serendipity would have it, that’s where he met two neat guys named Ed and Steve.

Stephen McLellan studied with the legendary Thomas Monohan, at the University of Toronto. His beginnings however were really as a bass guitarist playing Rock, Rhythm and Blues, and Jazz in a number of Toronto bands. He has also performed in everything from Broadway musicals like Phantom of the Opera, Grease, and the touring company of Forever Plaid, to tours with the National Ballet of Canada and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet that have taken him all over the continent.

He has played bass guitar for the late, great Chet Atkins and has worked as a studio musician for performers like Anne Murray. He has recorded widely with the CBC, and appeared, playing his bass, in the film Youkali Hotel. Stephen is the Principal Bassist with the Regina Symphony Orchestra. For him, plucking with Ed and Jack is pure pleasure!

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