Vocalist and trumpet player Anita Eccleston writes music deeply influenced by jazz – catchy songs that resonate.

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Anita's Holiday Jazz Brunch

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2nd Floor Gastown (Water Street Cafe), 300 Water Street, Vancouver, BC

Come feel like you’re home for the holidays! Anita Eccleston (vocals/trumpet) and Andrew Smith (guitar) bring a cozy blend of jazz and holiday music to 2nd Floor Gastown’s Sunday Brunch Duo Series. With special guest Elizabeth Eccleston. Featuring a live performance of Anita Eccleston's jazzy Christmas song "Long Nights." Advance reservations recommended.

$10 per person with option to tip the band.

Vocalist and trumpet player Anita Eccleston writes jazzy songs that resonate with the human experience. Her new set of originals are beautiful and haunting, striking deep at the heart with their raw honesty and reflection. Her quartet brings these melodies to life with Andrew R. Smith on electric guitar, Graham Clark on upright bass, Nino DiPasquale on drums and Anita slipping between trumpet, vocals and electric ukulele. These poignant arrangements couple with reinterpreted classics to thread together a unique and unforgettable experience.

The home of the dialogue between jazz, spirituality & progressive theology of Vancouver. Combining Vancouver’s best jazz music with meditations on faith and life, this 4pm service is Vancouver’s longest running (and best-kept secret) Jazz Vespers in town! Anita will bring her quintet with a whole set of new songs about life with all its struggles and hopes, and how we muddle through.

Admission is by donation.

Anita Eccleston Trio

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2nd Floor Gastown (Water Street Cafe), 300 Water Street, Vancouver, BC

Book your 6:30/8:30 reservations here: https://www.exploretock.com/waterstcafe/experience/260392/2nd-floor-gastown-live-music-reservation?date=2023-08-01&size=2&time=10%3A00

Paying tribute to traditional favourites and serving up modern classics, Anita and Andy bring that late night ambiance with her lyrical trumpet and sultry vocals combined with his warm crooning and fingerstyle jazz guitar, all padded by the steady deep thrumming of Graham’s upright bass.

Anita Eccleston - Vocals, Trumpet,
Andrew Smith - Vocals, Electric Guitar,
Graham Clark - Upright/Electric Bass

The 2nd Floor Gastown offers Live Music DAILY, open during Dinner Service from 6:00pm to 10:00pm 7 days a week and 11:30am to 2:00pm Saturday & Sunday for Brunch. There are two sets offered for each show; reservations are for one set. Guests may seat for both sets depending on availability and manager discretion.

$12

Burnaby Blooms Festival: Anita Eccleston Duo

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Deer Lake Park, 6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby, BC

Burnaby Blooms Festival == FREE - OUTDOORS -- Paying tribute to traditional favourites and serving up modern classics, Anita and Andy bring that late night ambiance with her lyrical trumpet and sultry vocals combined with his warm crooning and fingerstyle jazz guitar.

Anita Eccleston / Andrew Smith Duo Anita Eccleston Vocals, Trumpet Andrew Smith Vocals, Guitar

Frankie's After Dark: Gala Gardens LIVE

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Frankie's Jazz Club, 765 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC

Tickets at the door. First come first serve. $10 -- Multi-instrumentalist Anita Eccleston's new album Gala Gardens takes her in a new direction. Influenced by jazz and lofi chillhop, these downtempo compositions blossomed into a bouquet of instrumental soundscapes. In a lo-fi jazz style Anita captures refrains and crafts them together in a kaleidoscopic mosaic, with her breezy trumpet melodies soaring above, aligning the peaks and valleys of this groovy and patiently ambient song collection. She’ll be joined for this special performance by Chris Gestrin (keyboards), Dean Thiessen (keyboards) and Liz Eccleston (Electric Ukelele) Frankie's After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie's Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:15PM and tickets are $10.

Anita Eccleston - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Electronics Elizabeth Eccleston - Electric Ukulele Chris Gestrin - Keyboards, Synths Dean Thiessen - Keyboards, Organ

New Year's Eve Dinner + Live Music

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CAVU kitchen bar, 5911 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, BC

Anita Eccleston TRIO with Andrew Smith and Russell Scholberg

Join us for yummy eats, live music, bubbly and more!

✨ 6-9 pm: Buffet Dinner ✨ 7pm-1am: Live music by @anitatrumpet ✨ 11pm-12:30am: Charcuterie table + donut wall ✨ 12am: Champagne toast Tickets: $80

$80 per ticket, includes meal and champagne.

Empty Wall Art Show

Empty Wall Art Show, 2987 Granville St, Vancouver, BC

Join us on October 21st from 7-11 PM for a night of expressive art, refreshing drinks, and live music provided by Anita Eccleston Duo.

Empty Wall is proudly presenting the first Canadian solo exhibition for internationally acclaimed contemporary painter Flavio Galvan https://www.flaviogalvan.com/

Galvan’s current body of work has been described as energetic, sophisticated, and forward-focused. His paintings and drawings lure you into a magnificent world of colour, texture and form. His work seeks to connect the observer to a deeper engagement with the vast landscape of the human experience. His masterful expressions in oil, acrylic, and texture create an exuberant dance that tangos through his formative years in Argentina then on to his life as a celebrated American painter.

https://emptywall.ca/

JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ. Sultry vocals, slick guitar, wailing trumpet and all your favourite songs. It's been too long folks. Pull up a chair, have an extraordinary brunch and relax on your Sunday with us.

https://tockify.com/2ndfloorgastown/detail/888/1652639400000

$8 plus option to tip the band.

$8 per person with option to tip the band.

Holiday Variety Show Party!

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YouTube Livestream

Come crush a cup of eggnog with Anita Eccleston & Friends as they celebrate with holiday classics, rum, stories,poetry, jokes, ukulele duets and more, highlighted by Anita's new Holiday song, "Long Nights." Featuring Anita Eccleston, Doug Gorkoff, and guests. FREE

Anita Eccleston & André Lachance

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2nd Floor Gastown (Water Street Cafe), 300 Water Street, Vancouver, BC

Come feel like you’re home for the holidays! Anita Eccleston (vocals/trumpet) and André Lachance (guitar) bring a cozy blend of jazz and holiday music to 2nd Floor Gastown’s Sunday Brunch Duo Series. With special guest Doug Gorkoff (cello). Featuring the premiere live performance of Anita Eccleston's newly released Christmas song "Long Nights." Advance reservations strongly recommended. https://bit.ly/AE_Bru_Dec5

$8 per person with option to tip the band.

Anita Eccleston plays Vancouver Jazz Fest 2021

Ocean Art Works

LIVESTREAM! Where Chet Baker sang like he played, Anita Eccleston plays like she sings. “Packing a polished and sassy approach to the American jazz songbook” (BC Musician Magazine), her trumpet is an extension of her playful, sultry voice, while her hotshot quartet serves up traditional jazz, blues, soul, funk, and reggae-rock to get crowds moving! With Andrew R. Smith guitar, Graham Clark bass, and Justin James drums.

https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/anita-eccleston/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YEb-T_Wnpk

Anita Eccleston SOLO LIVE

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ONLINE: Side Door Access

I am going to play my ukulele and sing for you. Originals, jazz faves and sweet covers. Let's have a little hang.

$10 per online access

Duo partners Anita Eccleston and Andrew Smith play all the sounds of jazz. Whether they are paying tribute to traditional favourites or serving up modern classics, they fit the ambiance with Anita's lyrical trumpet playing and sultry vocals combined with Andrew's warm crooning and finger style jazz guitar. By donation at the door.

Moss Collective is Anna Lumiere (keyboards, vocals), Graham Ord (sax, flute, vocals), Arista Hawkes (upright bass, vocals) Bernie Arai (drums) featuring Anita Eccleston (trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals). The music varies from innovative free improvisation to grand arrangements of compositions from musical luminaries such as Radiohead, Bjork, Amy Winehouse and Dan Mangan. Expect to hear every colour of the rainbow stylistically and emotionally.

Anita Eccleston Andrew Smith Duo

The Yard, 8482 Granville St, Vancouver, BC

Duo partners Anita Eccleston and Andrew Smith play all the sounds of jazz. Whether they are paying tribute to traditional favourites or serving up modern classics, they fit the ambiance with Anita's lyrical trumpet playing and sultry vocals combined with Andrew's warm crooning and finger style jazz guitar. By donation at the door.

Summer: New Jazz EP & Music in the Park 

Summertime... and the living is out there...

Jazz festival season is always my favorite time of the year. It comes and goes so fast and I always miss a few shows, while taking in as many as possible, some really tough choices to decide between this year! For my own performance I brought a 9-piece band to the Railspur Stage on Granville Island for Van Jazz Fest Canada Day Celebrations. I had my twin Elizabeth backing me up on Vocals (pictured right, with our mother), Heather Anderson on trumpet, Ben Henriques on tenor sax, Doug Gorkoff soaring on cello, Andrew Smith (of Sweetpea Swing Band), on guitar and uke, Graham Clark on bass, and fellow Kamloopsians Kris Ruston on keys and Richard Graham on drums. It was EPIC! What a powerhouse behind me! I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do and continually develop my craft and my material. Thank yous go to everyone who has ever encouraged me, given me an opportunity, and for all who believe in the dream I have of putting out real, world class, honest music. My goal is always to connect with you, whether it's the way I sing or play a line, to the words I write or songs I choose to play, you are always in my mind and in my heart.

With the intensity (jazz binging) of the 10 days of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival behind me I look upon the next 2 months with a longing to relax, hit the beach, and soak up the patio life. However so far the 10 days since the festival have proven to be packed with hilarious costumed gigs. From "Bollywood" Indian brass bands to an appearance with Las Estrellas de Vancouver (Mariachi) at the tremendous Carnival del Sol (left), coupled with sweet little jazz performances. So far July seems a like it has more surprises in store.

My plans for the summer are to finish recording my new jazz album. I hope to be able to release it in the early fall, and am gearing all my focus that direction.

If you would like to hear me perform you can catch me in Vancouver at The Kino (3456 Cambie) July 25th and August 22nd, 9pm by donation. I play there on the 4th Monday of every month.

For my hometown crowd in Kamloops: I will be appearing at Riverside Park - Music in The Park on August 13th with a large band (deets TBA). 7PM, free. It has been too long since I voyaged across the Cascades to the meeting of the Thompson rivers, and WAY TOO LONG since I got to eat yummy Senor Froggy!

Aside from recording and performing, this summer I will be writing and developing new songs for another original album, off in the future. Hopefully with my ukulele at a beach. :)  May your summer be splendid and filled with love and fun! xo Anita

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