WELLNESS ARTIST
PAT JAC K S ON A Musical Life Well Lived CAR OLI NE LENA R D ON, SSO Fla u t ist PAT JACKSON EXPERIENCED THE WARMTH and caring
hand and help where needed. She has been a firm fix-
nature of Vancouver Island residents when she and her
ture in the non-profit performing arts community, in-
husband, Eric, were touring around to see if they want-
cluding a long-running role as President of the Comox
ed to emigrate from England to B.C. Her sister, who
Valley Concert Band and a Board Member of the Strath-
was working and living in Vancouver, suggested that Pat
cona Symphony Orchestra. She has also been involved
and her husband have a “drive around” and they ended
in a variety of organizations such as Meals on Wheels
up in Powell River en route to Courtenay on a snowy
and the Girl Guides, to name a few. If you have a cup
winter’s eve. One of the B.C. ferry workers heard about
of tea with Pat, she will share some amazing (and funny)
their predicament (they didn’t have snow tires on their
stories with you and experiences of a life well lived.
rental car, and they had no idea where to stay) and her family put Pat and Eric up at their home in Black Creek.
Pat’s connection to her euphonium (a member of the tuba family) which she still plays with the Concert Band
High marks for the kindness of strangers.
and Strathcona Symphony, comes from her evolution as a fledgling flute player. Many of the Air Force
Over fifty years ago, the Jacksons started their life on
base members, who were also musicians in the Con-
Vancouver Island. Pat has never been shy to put up her
cert Band, had transferred out and there was a need
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