Everybody knows that the top drawer is where all the best secrets are kept safe. Perhaps Vancouver’s best kept secret is a rock 'n' roll band known as The Top Drawers. Richly steeped in 1960s Brit-rock flavour, The Top Drawers are intent on reviving the joy, the energy, and the fun of rock ‘n’ roll.  



The Top Drawers have collected the adoration of music-scenesters and would-be sock-hoppers everywhere they’ve played. Perhaps it’s because their obvious homage to 1960s rock music comes very naturally. The band’s lead singer, Eric Lefebvre, has toured as the drummer for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Terry Sylvester of The Hollies. It also doesn’t hurt that their first album was mixed by Canadian audio-guru/Odds-alumnus, Steven Drake. The resulting vibe is so sincere that it prompted The Grapes of Wrath's Kevin Kane to say, "If they had mixed the record in mono, pressed it onto vinyl, and pre-scuffed and scratched the records, they could have passed 'You're So Fine' off as a super-rare, obscure treasure of the mid-60s (and at collector prices!). They'd no doubt fool a lot of people."



The Top Drawers have toured all over Western Canada, performed at festivals, and had their song "Crazy Day" featured in the Haylie Duff movie, "Fear Island." The band’s live shows have become exuberant events characterized by call-and-answer choruses, handclaps, dancing, and barrages of lead guitar. It is unapologetically rock ‘n’ roll in its purest form.

       Singer, songwriter, recording artist, guitar player, touring musician, composer, teacher, Jesse Griffith is no stranger to the world of six strings (or ten). After first successfully touring the country in the summer of 2006 with the release of Turnstiles' "13 Telephone Towers." Jesse pulled double duty on that first tour playing pedal steel and electric guitar for country tinged surf rockers "Red Barn." "I wouldn't have it any other way, I just love playing"

Jesse wrote and recorded under the name "Sad Goat" while Turnstiles went to hiatus status. Further honing his craft, and holed up Antigonish, NS, Jesse formed The Farley Mowats, described as "Gordon Lightfoot meets Sonic Youth." Debuting at the Evolve Music Festival in the summer of 2007 was probably the highlight of the short lived group. Relocating to Vancouver, BC in late 2007, with two LPs of material recorded but unreleased, the band soon fell into shambles. 

Not to be discouraged, Jesse continued writing, all the while getting calls to join other projects in the city. Playing pedal steel in Joel Battle's band led to the release of "Slow Learner" recorded in Washington, 2009. Jesse then joined recording and touring artist Stef Lang for a couple years both in the studio and on the road as lead guitar and doboro player. Jesse has also maintained an active role in the Chris Buck Band, playing steel and electric guitars, and also has played with Billy Jo Bryce, Peter La Grande, Lisa O'Neil and even had a regular jazz gig known as the SGB (Stecz Griffith Bell Trio). 

Countless shows, miles, provinces, borders and bands later, summer of 2011 found Jesse playing with Leeroy Stagger for his Vancouver show and subsequent tour of Alberta and BC. Highlighted at Calgary's Olympic Park on a balmy clear Canada Day evening, sharing the stage with Jim Byrnes and the Sojourners, to crowds in the tens of thousands it was a night to remember. 

The closing months of 2011 find Jesse finishing up a long overdue solo record, self produced with the help of some wonderfully talented musicians - the core being Paul Townsend on drums, Wynston Minckler on upright and electric basses and Jillian Lebeck on keys, the album was produced mostly in the live room, highlights real musicians playing off one another in real time.

2012 - Go Find a Mountain released.

2013 relocated to a Nova Scotia ranch on the Bay of Fundy, new LP on the way with Vancouver band Groundtruthing recorded with Andy Schichter at the Hive Studios.


Fazineh Keita grew up in Sierra Leone during the country's Civil War. At a young age, he was influenced by 2Pac, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley and their revolutionary lyrics. After the war, as a refugee in Guinea, he recorded his first musical album Politician Paddy Dem under the name "X-Sta Face" and returned to Sierra Leone to release it.
"Me Paddy Dem" with its Fula accent and jokes became a hit throughout Sierra Leone and led to political change in the government. After receiving many death threats, he moved to Canada in 2007.

As a former child soldier, Fazineh is using his experience to bring awareness to the realities of war and is a founder of the charity Innocence Lost Foundation. Currently he is working on a community centre project in his hometown of Kabala, Sierra Leone. Through acting, writing and music, he is using his skills to tell important stories, educate youth, and to help people find healing through art.

Paul Finlay is an electronic music producer and synth enthusiast originally from the North East of England, now residing in Vancouver, BC.

Utilizing a combination of modular, analog, and digital synths, Paul creates rich and complex compositions in the studio and on stage.

He has several independent releases on bandcamp , which can be found here.

https://paulfinlay.bandcamp.com

He is also one half of electronic duo CHXMERAS.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0OH0IbPnZCfIKin4ODBrmL?si=Dq1m2L8CStKBAC7neeXnNQ

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