Jean Kennedy is a jazz and classical guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who comes from a rich family tradition of performing music. (She began performing at the age of 5!) As a teenager, she brought traditional Scottish and Irish music to audiences in the Northwest with the group Heather and Shamrock. Her love of music later grew to include classical and jazz guitar.

Today, she delights audiences throughout the Midwest with a one-woman show, offering the sounds of songwriting greats like Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, and Jerome Kern. Jean’s performance includes memorable musical moments from theater history. You’ll be swaying in your seat and smiling in your heart when Jean takes you on a tour through The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The King and I.

In addition to performing, Jean has a thriving guitar studio in south central Kansas. Jean is also a member of the music faculty at McPherson College.

A musician interested in lots of genres.  A professional music tutor and guitarist.

The lyrics in Vivan’s songs are poems from some of Sweden’s most celebrated national-poets, such as Nils Ferlin, Bo Setterlind and Ebba Lindqvist among others.
Melodic Swedish folksongs with a smooth jazz vibe. These songs were composed by an undiscovered jewel within the Swedish musical landscape. Vivan Myhrvold-Lassen was born in Earth time on 24 September 1917. She was born in Eternity time on 12 April 2014.

Her amazing music is highly treasured by Vivans Visor, which consists of the following Swedish musicians:
Mija Anderson - Vocals
Peter Kvint - Producer, Guitar
Rickard Nilsson - Piano
Peter Forss - Contrabass

Guitar player who resides in the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia.

MIJA Biography

Born and raised in a musician family from Gothenburg in Sweden, her father was a well-reputed musician in a famous Swedish band between the sixties and eighties.
Mija started in a school-choir when she was 14 years old, and began to take song lessons for a song coach for several years. At this time she also started her first rock band with her own music. They played together for some years and had a lot of gigs during that time. At the same time she joined an established gospel-choir for ten years and during this time they did approx twice gig in a week in which Mija often was the song soloist. They also made an album.

Later she joined another funk-rock band, LC-Band with professional studio musicians. In this band she stayed for a couple of years before they dissolved and they released two singles and they were doing gigs from time to time.  At the age of 22 she went to study a musical program at a folk high school for  
2 years. She continued to take classical/jazz/pop vocal lessons and was a member of the vocal ensemble on the school. The ensemble gave performances in classical, musicals and folk music. After finishing this education Mija applied for and was accepted to University for music in Gothenburg. But turned it down and began to work as song/music teacher for six years on and off and during that time she also supported herself as a singer in a song duo (jazz, folk music and blues). Mija was also hired as cafe singer at two different restaurants for several years. She continued to support herself as a singer. During this time Mija sang in 1 cover band, 1 jazz-quartet, and continued with her own song duo, worked as a studio singer and participated in some well-known musicals and was also hired as a background singer for other artists.

1998 she got a roll in a bigger production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar in corporation with Baltic Republic. She played Maria Magdalena. During these years Mija still continued to singing with different bands. Following year she became a singer in a cover band called Lazy Babes in which Magnus Rosen from Hammerfall also played. She sang with them for a couple of years. Later she started a new band, Robberband with studio musicians from the Swedish rock and pop elite and they did a lot of gigs together. Nowadays Robberband includes members from Lost Horizon, Nostrademus etc.  And they are still doing gigs at clubs, parties etc.
Mija has supported herself as a singer in many different bands, with all styles. She has made approx 3000 gigs & 300 studio sessions. The latest project is the co-operation between Mija and Benny Jansson (Tears Of Anger, Ride The Sky, XSavior).
Mija and Benny found each other musically and began to write songs together in 2006/2007. A new member, Hasse Nilsson, a drummer [Dimension Zero, Gaffla Knivur, Diabolique] has also joined the band in 2008. The rest of the band is session musicians from different well-known projects.  
And more to come.....



Guitarist William Ghezzi has performed extensively with orchestras, chamber ensembles, choruses, dance companies, in theater and opera, and for films, radio and television. He has appeared with the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, the Harry Partch Ensemble, the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble, and in many other solo and chamber music settings. Mr. Ghezzi can be heard on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube Music his videos can be seen on YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram. His latest recording, Telemann: Fantasias for Viola da Gamba, is available on all major streaming services.

​Currently Ghezzi is working on a project to transcribe, record and perform a selection of Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann originally composed for viola da gamba.  Only recently rediscovered, these pieces are a new addition to the guitar repertoire

He has commissioned numerous solo and chamber music compositions for himself, the Newman/Ghezzi Guitar Duo, the Baxter/Ghezzi Flute & Guitar Duo and the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble including works by Robert Maggio, Laurie MacGregor, Kile Smith, Robert Capanna, and Jan Krzywicki. Currently Ghezzi is working with composer Paul A. Epstein to transcribe a selection of his piano compositions for guitar. 

Ghezzi's arrangement of "Morceau de Concours" for flute and guitar by Gabriel Fauré was selected as a finalist in the Newly Published Music Competition of the National Flute Association and is published by Trillenium Music Company. His other publications include "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" for voice, flute and guitar by J.S. Bach, "Guitarbooks I and II: Early Repertoire for Classical Guitar", "Four Chanson: for High Voice and Guitar" by Gabriel Fauré and "Suite no.6" by J.S. Bach originally for cello.
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​Ghezzi holds a music degree from Temple University, College of Music where he studied with Peter Segal and Anna Kotsaranko. He has studied privately with Phillip de Fremery, Eliot Fisk and Vladimir Mikulka. He has been on the music faculties of Temple University, Chestnut Hill College, and Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. Mr. Ghezzi lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Currently, he is giving private guitar instruction at all levels from his home.

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