Keith Hartshorn-Walton Trio

Keith Hartshorn-Walton, tuba
JP Lapensee, bass
Lucas Denison, drums

Ottawa-based jazz tuba player Keith Hartshorn-Walton can be found in bands as diverse as The Bank Street Bonbons, Safe Low Limit (an all-bass clef jazz group), Linsey Wellman’s Wedding and Funeral Trio, and particularly Mélanie E., a quartet featuring his wife, french vocalist Mélanie Hartshorn-Walton. 

In September 2019 Keith was invited to participate in the gala tribute concert to jazz tuba legend Howard Johnson, in New York City, where he performed with the original members of Johnson's jazz tuba ensemble, Gravity. 

In 2023, Keith performed alongside Joseph Daley’s Tuba Trio along with Scott Robinson and Warren Smith in Buffalo, and in 2024 was invited to play in Daley’s True Unity Bass Association large tuba ensemble for his 75th birthday concert in Brooklyn, NY. 

Keith has also played with Quensin Nachoff, Erik Lawrence (with whom he shares the trio “Tubari”), Cinephonic, Nation Beat, The Lemon Bucket Orchestra, and The Foothills Brass Quintet, among others.