Kerilie McDowall
Jazz guitarist, Polaris Music Prize juror, Former DownBeat contributor, 12x Award-winning 10x nominated short TV movie Director, Short Filmmaker, former Rhythm'a'ning jazz radio host.
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About Me
Kerilie McDowall is a BC, music/arts writer. She is the owner of Canadian Online Guitar Lessons & Services, and as a publicist is a recording musician’s self-empowerment Canadian music industry instructor and coach. McDowall was a DownBeat, music writer contributor monthly until the 2020 pandemic. She was a jazz bandleader, guitarist and composer in the 1990s in Vancouver. View her work in DownBeat, All About Jazz, Canadian Musician, Inspired 55+, and other publications. Opt-in to Kerilie’s jazz and arts e-blog, In the Zen. McDowall is a 12-time award winning TV Director/ jazz short documentary filmmaker who judges the Polaris Music Prize and is still judging as a DownBeat Critics Poll critic. She works with rising star and JUNO Award and Order of Canada-winning recording artists and aspiring young musicians.
