Our Supporters

Whether you are a donor, sponsor, or funder we deeply appreciate your important investment in Coastal Jazz. Thanks to our supporters’ generosity Coastal Jazz continues to provide numerous and varied opportunities for the BC community to share and nurture their passion for jazz. Our generous supporters help to build a foundation for the future of jazz throughout the Lower Mainland of BC and beyond.

Coastal Jazz is pleased to recognize and thank the following donors, funders, and sponsors for their generous support of our performances, programs and events over the past year.

Loyalty donors (monthly or multi-year commitments) are bolded.

TD Bank Group

British Columbia Arts Council • Canadian Heritage • City of Vancouver • CMHC Granville Island • Province of British Columbia • Sipsmith Gin • Tom Lee Music

Jazz Trail Blazer: $30,000 – $49,999

Mill Street Brewery • Retop • Volvo

Jazz Band Leader: $15,000 – $29,999

Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association

Jazz Improviser: $5,000 – $14,999

Anthem Properties • Canada Council for the Arts • Concord Pacific • Creative BC •  Italian Cultural Centre

Melody Makers, Improvisors & Patrons: $1,000 – $5,000+

Anon x 6 • Ashit Dattani • Dirty Laundry Vineyards • Easy Park • Franco Ferrari • The Gyro Club of Vancouver Charitable Foundation • Lynn Johnston • Gary Kushnir • Barbara Macdonald • Jan Manson • Frances McGrath • Christian and Dan Morrison • Gretchen and Michael O’Brien • Phillip O’Brien • Gary and Shirley Parkinson • Jim Poole • Denis Walker • Kevin Wright

Supporters & Benefactors: $200 – $999

Anon x 1 • Tom & Catherine Adair • Susan Broatch in memory of Ken Pickering • Jeff Brocklebank • John Campbell & Marguerite Pamela Campbell • Joanne Challenger • Vince Chura • Barbara Cooper • Lynn Copeland • Dorothy Copp • Kevin Coyne • Nou Dadoun • Erle Dardick • William Dmytrasz in memory of Ken Pickering • Mitchell Edgar • Kathy Evans • Nicholas Fedchuk • Sara Ferguson • Kristin Fox • Eva Franco • Gordon Gallagher • Jacquie Gijssen & Dr. John Nightingale • Jeffrey Goldberg • Bob Golden • Peter Goodwin • Michael Grunewaldt • Douglas Hager in memory of Karl Stahl • Peter Herd • John Hooge • Connie Hudson • Patrick Julian in memory of Ken Pickering • Mary Kippenhan • Emma Lancaster • Peter Lang • W. Blair Layton • Alison Maclennan • Zahid Makhdoom in memory of Ken Pickering • Guy Matchett • Michael & Jennifer Matich •  Milano Coffee • Jennifer Munro • Dieter Nachtigall • Mita Naidu • Petrus Nooij • Zbigniew Olak • David Ostro • Eduardo Ottoni • Vern Paetkau • Giulio Recchioni • Deborah Roitberg in memory of Jim Coverdale • Chris Sebert • Ralph Shaw • Prit Sidhu • Terry Snutch • Norm Steil • Diane & Gary Stevens in memory of Larry Scott • Lionel Such • Reena Taank • Rika Uto • John H. Vaillant •  John Watson • Bruce Weinborn • Deryk Whitehead • Steve Young • Rudy Zaepernick • Leonard Zapalowski • Stan Zobac

Friends: $50 – $199

Anon x 2 • Morris & Anna Adamowich in memory of Ken Pickering • Douglas Akerman • Jennifer Albert • Kelly Alexander • Kathy Anderson • David Anderson • Tom Andison in memory of Karl Stahl • Gerald Arksey • Charles Arthur • Laurel Axam • Karl Babin • Anthony Bailey • Gordon Bartlett • Giancarlo Baruffa • Linda Belton • Elizabeth Bennett • Bunny Bernard • Sara Birnham • Peggy Blackwood in memory of Ken Pickering • Michael Blanchard • Susan Borax • Murray Braaten • Stephen Britten • Stephen Brown • Craig Brown • BeverlyJean Brunet • Deana Brunell-Leydier • Carol Bullen • Alison Burns in memory of Ken Pickering • Ted Byrne • Lee Caldwell • Dennis Campardo • Allan Carruthers • Brian Charette • Ron Charles • Maxine Charlton • Dave Chiz • Bill Chow •  Pat & Ole Christiansen • James Clare • Robert Colby • Robert Colby • Gillian Collins • Bill Cooke • Irene Cord in memory of Ken Pickering •  Greg Corp • Ian Coutts • Michael Coyle • Michael Craig • David Crerar • Kenneth Cross • Deborah Cupido • Jean Ann Cyr • Karen Dar Woon • Bruce deConinckSmith • Mim Decrop • Sibylle Denk von Franken • Keith Dickinson • Eva Diener • Darlene Dobson • Peter Dodek • Craig Donohue in memory of Karl Stahl • Keith and Rennie Dunbar in memory of Karl Stahl • David Dunkley • Debilee Durocher • Robert Duynstee • John Dyball • Ethan Faber • Sheila Fidler in memory of Ken Pickering • Aaron Fineman in honour of Pat Julian • Susan Fitzgerald • Kyle Fogden in memory of Karl Stahl • Jean Fowler • Kristen Fox •  Cheryl Fu • Dwight Gardiner • David Gartley • Charles Gauthier • Cary Gertsen • Debbie Gettling •  Ray Giesbrecht • Karen Gilmore and Rob Van Nus • Sue Gleeson •  Pat & Kirsten Glover in memory of Ken Pickering • Robert Glover •  Camille Gosselin • Leslie Gould in memory of Karl Stahl • Sangam Grant • Joyce Grassi • Marnie Greenwood •  Raymond and Stephanie Greenwood in honour of Rod and Colleen Grant • John Groenewold •  Peter Haley • Denise Hall • Mark Halpern • Rick and Linda Hanson • Bruce Hardy • Martyn Hare • Diana Haynes • Phillip Hetherington • Roger Higgins • Patty Hill • Alix Hirabayashi in memory of Ken Pickering •  Dean Hirschfeldt • Geoff Hoare • Tom Hockin • Rennie Holley • James Hopkins • Arlene Howard • Ian Howat • Scott Hughes • Elaine Hunter • Lance Husoy • Eric Johnson • Barbara Kaminsky • Henry Karpus • Leah Kaser • Steve Kelsey • Arthur Kingma • Suzanne Klinga • Rudy Komposch • Barry Kootchin • Lorraine Koren •Terry Krepiakevich • Robert Kyle • Dennis Larsen • Elena Lau • Michael Lebowitz • Gary Lengyell • Sharon Levings • Joel Lew • Brigitte & Stephano Liapis • Jim Lillyman • Carolyn Liu • Giulia Lombardo and Darren Pelcz in memory of Karl Stahl • Cindy Luksha • Cameron MacKenzie in memory of Karl Stahl • Jim Mackenzie • Paddy Macleod • Monika MacNeill • Cyprien Maes • Lynden Mager • Deborah Marino • Bryce Martin • Sherri Martin • Jeff Marus • Patricia Mason • Timothy Mattox • Terry McBurney • Hugh McCurrach • Ciara McGeough • Kevin Mickelson • Mary Lou Miles • Derek Miura • Christina Montgomery • Monica Monty in memory of Nicolae Lupescu • David Morton • Susan Munro • Renee Neilly in memory of Ken Pickering • Laurine and Roger Nickel • Steve Nicol • Mark Nishiguchi • Malcolm Norris • Victoria Nowell • May Oltmann • Natalie Onufreychuk • Carol Page • Shera & Scott Paterson in memory of Ken Pickering • Donna Paul • Corinne Peet • Chris Pekar • Jaime Peschiera • Ranko Petrovic • Richard Pollock • Tim Poole • Margot Pratt • Ernie Puil • Marilyn and John Quong • Karim Ratib • Helen Ray and Roger Short in memory of Karl Stahl • Roy and Maynetta Raymond • David Rehorick • Liam Reilly • Mike Reno • Suzanne Richard • Haydn Richardson • Joan Robertson in memory of Ken Pickering • Chris Rose • Gregory Ross • Dana Rowe • Laura Rowlett in honor of Marty Hatlelid • Diana Sanderson • Bilbeer Sandhu • Gloria Schwartz • Trisha Scott • Martin Screech • Richard Sharpe • Leslie Slack • Lee Smith • Teri Smith • Kevin Spence • Lori Staehling in memory of Karl Stahl • Marvin Steffin • Peter Stern • John Stevenson • Corinne Super • Sabrina Susin • Adrian Swanston • Mary Tait • Lillian Tamburic • Bill Taylor • Robert Taylor • Liisa Tella • Daniel Tetrault • Trent Thompson • Andrea Thomsett • Mike Tolton • Les Toth • David Twanow • David Utevsky • Helen Vaughan • Tanya Veerman • Sandra Vishloff • Duff Waddell • Patricia Walberg-Anhorn & Jim Anhorn • Christopher Wallace • Bill Walters • Marianne Wasylycia in memory of Ken Pickering • Peter Weissman in memory of Karl Stahl • Ken Weremchuk • Carl White • Lory White • Joseph Whiteside • Paul Wiggins • Guy Wilson-Roberts • Gary Wolfson • Jay Wollenberg • Simon Wosk • Beth Young • Maureen Zeal Campbell • Diane Zwickel