ALAN HETHERINGTON

Keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kevin Hearn studied classical piano. His professional career began when he joined the Look People in 1988, remaining with the band until 1993, and then, two years later, he stepped in for keyboardist Andy Creeggan in Barenaked Ladies.

Hearn started a sideline solo career, releasing a solo project, Mothball Mint, in 1997. He released a second solo album, H-Wing, in 2001. At this poAlan Hetherington is a Canadian drummer/percussionist who has travelled and studied widely in South America and the Caribbean. He has performed with the Vancouver Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Canadian Opera Company, Nexus, John Wyre and Musaic, Trichy Sankaran, and Glen Valez, and is a member of the contemporary world jazz ensemble Vuja De.

Alan has made many recordings for film and television and can be seen frequently performing with the top jazz groups in Toronto. For the past decade he has escaped the Toronto winters in favour of São Paulo, Brazil, playing with Sombra e Agua Fresca, Denys Christian, Mauro Bastos, and Bel Brazil. Alan is also the director of the Escola de Samba de Toronto (Toronto Samba School). He has been a faculty member of The Royal Conservatory since 2003.int Hearn had assembled his own band, Thin Buckle, to back him in his solo endeavors. He released a third solo album, again with Thin Buckle, called Night Light in 2003. A fourth, The Miracle Mile, appeared in 2006. Three years later, Hearn released his fifth solo project, Havana Winter, followed in 2011 by Cloud Maintenance.