Justin Duhaime & Ed Lister

Justin Duhaime - guitar, loops
Ed Lister - trumpet, flugelhorn

Justin Duhaime is a passionate guitarist, composer, and educator with a deep commitment to music. He is the first musician to receive the Ottawa Arts Council’s Emerging Artist Award. His acoustic Django-inspired project Gypsy Muse has led to work with internationally acclaimed artists and regularly sold out concerts. The Justin Duhaime Organ Trio features his electric guitar work and music that is rooted in the blues and beyond.

Duhaime’s tastes in music range from jazz to metal, classical to carnatic music, chorro to blues rock, tango to fusion, pop to bluegrass, and beyond. Whether performing or composing, he continues to seek openness, depth, growth, and to desegregate stylistic boundaries in a way that engages listeners. Duhaime is sponsored by DK Guitars with The Black Sword. He is an in demand educator with a self-published instructional guitar book & YouTube channel. Sign up for his mailing list to be notified of special events.

Edward Lister is a U.K born trumpeter, composer & educator who has been playing professionally since the age of 15. Edward has been based out of Ottawa, Canada since 2011 and currently runs numerous ensembles and Theatre shows including 'The Espionage Orchestra' a tribute to the music of James Bond and 'Sly High', a tribute to the music of Sly & the Family Stone through his Entertainment company 'ELM productions'.

Since moving to Ottawa, Canada in 2011, Ed has been a JUNO Award winning trumpeter and has performed and collaborated with a number of incredible North American musicians including Jann Arden, Sloan (Canadian rock legends), Jerry Granelli (Canadian drummer and composer who's best known work is the Charlie Brown Christmas) and the Temptations. Ed has also created many projects that were made possible by the opportunities and creative spaces that this city provides. These projects include his 11 piece 'Prime Rib Big Band' which has performed many shows since the bands formation in 2017 including a standing monthly residency at the iconic 'Irene's Pub' in Ottawa. Ed performs as a session musician in many other bands and ensembles in Ottawa. Ed's time is split equally between performance and composition. Ed's music has been featured many times over the last 8 years on CBC radio, CTV, Rogers T.V, Ottawa University CHUO & Carleton CKCU radio and the Ottawa Citizen to name a few. Ed also runs the Carleton University Jazz Ensemble which specializes in Big Band performance and original compositions.