Helen Austin is a prolific singer/songwriter from the UK now living on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Helen is no stranger to the stage and has worked as a professional performer for over 20 years, building a career as an award winning, musical comedian and regular headliner on the UK comedy circuit.

A prolific songwriter with a degree in performing arts, she is now concentrating solely on the music - writing, producing and performing. A regular MC and performer at Vancouver Island Musicfest, Helen is enormously comfortable on stage has played many venues which range from thousands at Glastonbury Festival, UK, to intimate house concerts and everything in between.

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Liana and Orest, co-founders of Beautiful Flow, have been involved in the arts from an early age.

Orest started piano lessons at the age of five and worked up to an Associate level of study and performance of classical music. Along the way he picked up the guitar which opened up a new forum of expression for him. He studied jazz performance and composition at Capilano College in Vancouver. Orest played in numerous pop, rock and jazz bands.

Liana grew up listening to her mother give piano lessons. Liana experimented with piano and trumpet. She was naturally artistic and musical. She realized she had a voice as a young teen and while attending Champlain College in Quebecstudying art, she began exploring musical possibilities. She moved to Vancouver where she played in original independent pop, reggae and blues bands and sang on a variety of studio projects and commercials. She studied voice at Vancouver Community College.

Liana and Orest met in Vancouver and realized they had a common musical, artistic and spiritual vision. They began writing, recording and performing original music together which continues today. While experimenting with new sounds and textures they both expanded their instrument base. Liana played bass, first as a writing tool, then as a main instrument. To help with the ever expanding recording technology they started playing mandolin, various percussion instruments, and drums to add to their musical knowledge and color.

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Valdy, born Valdemar Horsdal in Ottawa, Canada has been part of the fabric of Canadian pop and folk music for over 34 years. A man with a thousand friends, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to Texas to New Zealand, he's a singer, guitarist and songwriter who catches the small but telling moments that make up life

Remembered for "Play Me a Rock and Roll Song", his bitter-sweet memory of finding himself, a relaxed and amiable story-teller, facing a rambunctious audience at the Aldergrove Rock Festival circa 1968, Valdy has sold almost half a million copies of his 13 albums, has two Juno Awards (Folk Singer of the Year and Folk Entertainer of the Year), a total of seven Juno nominations and four Gold albums to his credit.

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