Marine Lacoste is a keyboard player from Quebec Canada who plays with major artists Uncle Kracker and Corey Hart, as well as fronting her own band Highway Hunters. We talk on all three with Marine plus her establishment of a piano academy for rock players.

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

CEGEP (post secondary education option in Quebec)

Listening to Deep Purple and loving rock organ playing

Getting the gig with Uncle Kracker

Marine playing live with Uncle Kracker

Marine’s rig for Uncle Kracker

Getting the gig with Corey Hart

Marine playing at the Juno Awards with Corey Hart

Marine’s rig for Corey Hart

Highway Hunters – “when Deep Purple, Keith Emerson and Halestorm have a baby”

Highway Hunters – Down The River

Marine Lacoste’s Online Rock Lessons 

B3 players who inspire (Lachy Doley interview link)

Highway Hunters’ ELP tribute: Knife Edge 

Learning to be a front-person behind a keyboard

Marine’s train wreck moment

Marine’s suggestions for new players

Peter Keys

Tag a keyboard player: more Ty Bailie!

Desert Island Discs: Transmission – The Tea Party, Machine Head – Deep Purple, Trouble – LaMontagne, Grace – Jeff Buckley, Great Western Valkyrie – Rival Sons.

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

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