Music.... a life-long singer-songwriter and composer, Bev toured across Canada for many years, from Haida Gwaii to Nova Scotia, playing festival mainstages, concerts and clubs, including performances and commissions featured on CBC national radio. Bev has composed scores and written songs for theatres like Network, Workshop West, Catalyst, and the Citadel, as well as scores for video and film.
Words... her first novel shortlisted for an international prize, her literary work anthologized, her scripts industry award winners, her co-written play professionally staged — Bev has spun many thousands of words into pages and productions.
Bev first performed her songs onstage in award-winning folk rock group Manna (1970s), headlining at Edmonton’s Jubilee Auditorium and touring North America. She sang her songs Saturday night main stage at the first Edmonton Folk Festival in 1980 and again in 1986. Her 1984 album Leap of Faith received national airplay. For Edmonton’s inaugural First Night Festivals (1991-1992) Bev composed and produced the music that filled Churchill Square. Songwriting commissions include Sesame Street, CBC current affairs and CBC TV’s Tommy Banks Live.
She won an international harp arrangement competition (2007) and released Harp Haven, an album of harp music (2016).
As Alberta’s first therapeutic harp practitioner, Bev shared healing music with patients at the Cross Cancer Institute for 10 years, including envisioning and facilitating North America’s first therapeutic harp circle. From 2007 to 2024 she was a staff therapeutic musician at the University of Alberta Hospital, where she continues to offer monthly sound baths to staff and patients.