About
Jan Randall
Instruments: Vocals, Piano/Keyboards, Composition/Songwriting, Conductor, guitar, bass, programming
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Produced award winning original scores for over 800 productions between 1985and 2015.
Created and supervised the music for the 2001 World Championships in Athletics broadcast to a live audience of 4 billion in over 200 countries. Featured 45000 dancers, 80 drummers, a 1000 voice choir and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Was Music Director for Second City collaborating with Catherine O’Hara, Ryan Stiles,
Colin Mochrie, Richard Kind, Ron James, Eugene Levy, and Mike Myers.
From 2009-2016 wrote over 50 original song parodies and performed them live for CBC on national radio's award winning The Irrelevant Show.
As Music Director of the Banff World TV Festival, was on stage performing with Bob Newhart, John Cleese, Martin Short, Dame Edna, Steve Smith (Red Green).
Jan Randall has been the opening act for Ray Charles, Bruce Cockburn, Iron Butterfly, and Fats Domino. He’s also been a first call sideman recruited to perform in concert
with Bo Diddley, Spencer Davis, Sha Na Na, Gary US Bonds, Otis Rush, Sam
Lay and Amos Garrett.
His two albums of original songs are available worldwide through Apple and
Spotify. They are an eclectic mix drawing from jazz, blues, folk and world music traditions influenced by Randy Newman, Tom Waits, and Mose Alison.
2008 Good Fair World
2019 Wait In Line
He continues to create and perform today from his home in Victoria B.C.
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