Dawn Loucks
Dawn's what you might call a caretaker. Takin' care of business, for sure – working the phone, working the room, shaking the hands. But she takes care of other stuff too – like the collection of K-Tel records in her basement, and any stray cat that comes by her house, and every one of the artists affiliated with SBR. (We're talking making sure they eat their vegetables and get enough sleep here.) Likely it's just that she never really left her small-town Manitoba background – she just brought it to the big city with her.
Jennifer Abel
You'll likely read Jen before you meet her. She still has a soft spot for pencils, although these days she usually uses a keyboard (not a synth) to find the right words for things. Drafting onesheets, grant applications and agreements can be a solitary pursuit, but she does get out to shake her booty once in a while. In fact, we figure she's seen more live music since she arrived in Calgary in 2000 than she has in the whole rest of her life. (Maybe Ontario's not as rockin' as they say...)
Owen Merrifield
Owen still clings to the notion that if it ain't got guitars, it ain't really music. We haven't quite pinpointed where this comes from yet. It can't be from his lifelong devotion to hockey – if it were, then he'd want an organ in every song. It might be from his Sudburian upbringing – that whole "Sudbury Saturday Night" thing, maybe. But he manages to set his own prejudices aside in order to handle many of SBR's day-to-day operations – even those which involve guitar-less bands.
