OUR ARTISTS
Multiple years of experience coming at you from 1 single group!
• Lead Vocals: Barbara Mowder • Bass and Back-up Vocals: Roger Bruce • Lead Guitarist: Jacek Baran • Drummer: Jon McCallum
Barb studied vocals at the Ontario Conservatory of Music, where she developed a solid musical foundation upon which to build her career. Music was always a huge part of her life. In her childhood years, Barb tried various instruments, including the Clarinet, Saxaphone, Flute, Trumpet, French Horn, Baritone, Trombone, and even the Tuba. She decided to hone in on her vocals. Her vocal career started at a very early age where she was a soloist soprano in various choirs in Toronto, and performed in a musical entitled "The Rose". "When I was 15, my father would take me to the local pub and ask the band to include me up on the stage; they would hand me a mic, and I'd sing Kenny Rogers and Ann Murray songs. This was the ONLY time I ever sang Country!"
"Singing has always been my true passion, and always will be. I love getting lost in the music".
Jacek started playing the guitar when he was 14 years old and hasn't stopped since!
Later on he began to play bass, keyboard and drums, but guitar has always been his most loved instrument.
Everything he listens to directs his musical development in some way. However, he would certainly include Deep Purple, Led Zep, The Police, Vai, SRV, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Marillion, ELP, Van Halen, Hendrix, Beatles, jazz and classical music as amongst his biggest influences.
Throughout the years Jack has played in many hard rock, progressive rock and blues bands in Poland, Italy and Canada.
Roger loves nothing more (musically) than laying down a groovin’ bass line for the band to build around- add lead or backing vocals to the mix and he’s a happy man. While his heart lies in hard rock, virtually every genre gets his foot tapping and fingers moving on the fretboard (as the saying goes: “there’s only two kinds of music I don’t like- Country AND Western”).
After starting his musical journey over 30 years ago with woodwind instruments (clarinet, saxophone), the lure of rock proved too tempting- he decided to learn how to play guitar. Self-taught on six-string, Geddy Lee’s creativity drew Roger to electric bass guitar… and he hasn’t looked back, plying his trade in a variety of bands and genres both live and in the recording studio.
In addition to exposing his kids to music created before “dubstep”, Roger currently holds down the bottom end and provides lead and backing vocals in three bands playing primarily Classic Rock with Blues and mainstream Pop sprinkled on for seasoning.
At the impressionable age of 11, already keen in visual arts, Jon found a his passion in music, playing drums. Before long he was playing along to the songs of his idols (Rush, Genesis, Yes), performing as percussionist with the school orchestra, and playing gigs with local musicians.
By the end of high school, he decided to make a go of playing professionally, touring with cover bands in bars in nearly every area of Ontario as well as teaching drum lessons. Realizing music wasn’t as promising a long-term career, he switched back to visual arts, but has never lost the love of playing music.
“As a drummer, amazing chops are cool, but what matters most is serving the song, and providing the heartbeat for the band.”