1. How old were you when you first starting playing sax?

Age 14 and a half .

2. Who was your biggest musical influence?

Can I pick three? They are Nelson Rangell, Eric Marienthal, Everette Harp

 

3. Where do you make your home?

Temecula, California.

 

4. Do you have any pets?

Six chickens (Lucy, Ethel, Marieanne, Aunt B, Ginger, and Ginni, ) and a desert tortoise named Bongo.

 

5. What is the best gig you have ever done?

Playing with Adam Hawley at Spaghettini in Seal Beach, California.

 

6. What is the best concert you have ever been to?

Kenny Garrett and Pharoah Sanders in Toronto.

 

7. Do you have a favourite album or song?

Too many favs to list....one of them is Nelson Rangell's Destiny (I have all of Nelson's albums), and Everette Harp's Common Ground

 

8. What artist would you still like to work with?

Charlie Puth

 

9. What would you be if you were not a musician?

An attorney--which is what I actually do as well as music (I tell people that I'm a musician that acts like a lawyer five days a week :-))

 

10. What is your favourite thing about Vancouver?

It's soooo beautiful....BC is the most beautiful province in Canada!

 

~Vickie van Dyke

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