Contributors

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Host

Jane Gowan

Jane is the creator, host, producer, editor, and creative director of Music Buddy. She also co-hosts and produces Employee of the Myth, a podcast about the much-loved Canadian band Skydiggers. 


Gowan is Toronto-based, Vancouver-born multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and singer-songwriter. She has worked in live music production and festival/theatre administration, and is also a graphic designer / illustrator. Jane has a BA in Political Science from UBC, and a diploma Vancouver Community College’s Contemporary Music program, where she studied Jazz piano, arranging, performance, composition and theory. She and her college classmate Koralee Tonack co-founded the Vancouver-based indie-pop group Spygirl (90s-2000s). In 2006, Jane moved to Toronto in, and founded her indie pop band The Real Shade. 

 
More about Jane at janegowan.com

https://www.janegowan.com
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Co-host

Tim Vesely

Tim Vesely is a founding member of the legendary Toronto Art Rock band Rheostatics. He has also released 2 critically-acclaimed albums with his alter-ego outfit The Violet Archers.

Tim is the House Engineer at The Woodshed Studio, Music Buddy's "home base". Tim also composes and produces music for film and television.

https://www.timveselymusic.com/