Following up my blog post
of mid-January (“Re-uniting with family,thanks to the Internet”), another family member has surfaced here in
Victoria.
This time, it’s Bruce, the
brother of my wife Natasha. In the 1960’s
Bruce trained as a musician and composer and later was part of the innovative World Soundscape Project with R.
Murray Shafer. In addition to travels around Europe as part of the Project, he also went to Australia and recorded songs of the
Aboriginal people south of Uluru which he played for us not long ago –
remarkable recordings.
Bruce G. Davis playing his trumpet at Hadrian’s Wall, England
In November last year,
Bruce became a widower. His late wife was Janet Wright, the Genie and Gemini
Award-winning actor and theatre director.
Janet Wright (1945-2016)
She performed in many film
(“The Perfect Storm”) and television shows including “Corner Gas”, and acted in
and directed dozens of theatre productions in Saskatoon, Vancouver and at the
Stratford Festival.
We are glad Bruce is here in Victoria. Most of my relatives are all far away – in Europe,
the Canary Islands, or in northern British Columbia.
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