Jeff McLeod is a jazz pianist who has collaborated with many of Saskatchewan's top artists in a variety of genres. In the jazz and blues world he's teamed up with Jon McCaslin, Jack Semple, Dean McNeil, Mark DeJong, and Kris Craig, among others. He's a member of Jason's Plumb's band 'The Willing'. He's toured the country in Juno-award winning singer Serena Ryder's band, performed with Joel Fafard, Andrea Menard and many, many others. Suffice to it say he's one of the busiest piano and keyboard players in the province.

Jeff is currently living in Rochester, New York while he begins his Doctoral program in jazz studies at the famed Eastman School of Music. In this concert from the CBC Regina Galleria Jeff is joined by Carlo Petrovitch on uprgith bass and drummer Roy Sydiaha.

Here's Jeff McLeod's full concert courtesy of CBC Radio 2's 'Concerts on Demand'.

Kelly-Ann Riess is a freelance journalist, copywriter, filmmaker and poet based in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across Canada, including the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Sun, the Montreal Gazette, Business Edge, Prairies North, The Windsor Review, Grain and the Leader-Post.

Kelley-Ann has travelled across North America working on documentaries that have aired on A&E Biography, History Television and CBC.

Her writing has sent her on a 1,600 kilometre dog sled race up north, as well as interviewing FBI agents in Texas and taking phone calls from celebrities, such as Paul Anka.

She is the author of To End a Conversation, which Jeanette Lynes describes as “ sly, wry, manic, and determinedly human poems for the new millennium . . . A sassy debut.” and The Saskatchewan Book of Everything.

Spoken word audio is not currently available on this web site. We will be posting a number of the pieces airing this season on the web site, hopefully as soon as December, as a Yuletide gift to you.