TEACHER BIO'S

ASGER HANSEN: Owner, guitar & piano teacher - Asger has been involved with music for most of his life. As a student, he was mostly self-taught on guitar, accordion, (yes, really!) harmonica, and mostly anything he could get his hands on. His formal training included trumpet and, believe it or not...bagpipes. However, Asger soon realized the coolness factor was not there as a 16 year old when he realized that he would have to theyar a kilt in order to continue to play in the pipe band. So, that was the end of his piping career, plus he didn’t feel any patriotic ties to Scotland being a full blooded Dane.

After graduation Asger soon ended up on the road with various rock bands. During his touring years they played many, many bars and clubs throughout Western Canada. They played in some the largest urban clubs in Vancouver, Calgary, Prince George, and Winnipeg to just about every small pub.
They did have the opportunity to share the stage with a number of then and now famous musicians including the Guess Who, David Foster’s group Skylark, The Collectors (now Chilliwack), The Vancouvers (Tommy Chong’s band) plus more groups than Asger can remember.

Once Asger decided to leave the road, he ended up with years of regular day jobs but he always had a weekend band of some sort.
Eventually, Asger ended up in radio broadcasting by starting out as an operations manager of a small town radio station in Burns Lake, B.C. A few years after that, Asger became an accounts manager (advertising sales) at CFVR/850 in Abbotsford and later joined JR-FM in Vancouver doing “On Locations”.

During his broadcasting years, Asger gained a ton of knowledge in radio commercial production, recording, and all aspects of the broadcast industry.

During the last 25 some odd years, Asger have been involved with the Chilliwack Jazz Festival both as an entertainer and in sound production. It was there that Asger had the privilege to perform with the late great Linden Garner and also with an upcoming rising performer, Michael Buble.
Some of the main bands that Asger performs with includes 1066, a local celtic band that has performed both sides of the border for the past 26 years. Some of our guest performers include Susie Francis, Michael Kaishammer and Will Millar, former front man of the Irish Rovers. His newest venture is with an up and coming band, Horizon, comprised of some A&D teachers and Crystal Hicks on vocals.
He is also a founding member of the local party band Faggots and Peas (not what you think) and has also been very involved in music education for many years along with his best half, Debbie.