CEO

Kevin Schallie - CEO 

contact: kevin@liveacts.ca

Genre(s): all

Kevin Schallie began his career in the music industry in the early 2000’s. As a musician himself, Schallie gained experience in production through personal endeavours – booking tours throughout Canada and the United States. Coinciding with his passion for music, Kevin developed an interest in finance, which led him to graduate from UBC’s Sauder’s School of Business Mortgage Brokerage Program in 2005. Schallie began utilizing both skill sets in 2012 when he joined Rednyne Productions. Since then, he has produced thousands of shows across Western Canada, working closely with hundreds of artists. Kevin is dedicated to providing artists with the tools they need to flourish in the global music industry.

Booking agent + Marketing manager

Emily Ryan

contact: Emilyryan@liveacts.ca

Genre(s): rock/metal

Emily Ryan was first inspired to be part of the music industry when, as a teen, her parents introduced her to classic rock bands from the 60’s and 70’s. Listening to, and reading about, bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Black Sabbath guided her decision to pursue a career as a producer, and work in recording studios. After graduating high school, she enrolled in the 16 month Advanced Audio Engineering and Record Production course at Nimbus School of Recording and Media in Vancouver. While at Nimbus, Emily fell in love with the engineering side of record production, making her determined to become an engineer at a busy commercial studio. Once her course at Nimbus was completed, she moved to London, England, to gain valuable work experience and to shadow some renowned engineers and producers. Upon arriving back in Vancouver in the fall of 2018 she was offered a job at Rain City Recorders. It is here that Emily works as an assistant engineer, recording mainly rock and metal bands. She has also started managing artists in her spare time. Through production, engineering, management, and bookings, Emily has hopes of maintaining a thriving rock and metal scene in Vancouver.

Booking agent 

Jaron Chidiac

contact: jaron@vtix.com

Genre(s): folk/indie

Born and raised in Prince George, Jaron took to musical theater early in life and gained extensive stage experience with the Excalibur Theater Company and by spending his summers volunteering for the local Music Festival, Folk Fest. After nearly a decade of performing as an artist and singer songwriter, Jaron is continuing his journey by learning the behind the scenes aspects of the music industry. Whether it's audio video production, or helping facilitate live events, Jaron’s passion for music continues to grow.

Booking agent

Kyra Tabernero

contact: Kyra@liveacts.ca

Genre(s): Alt/Indie/HipHop

Emerging as an opportunistic and eager graduate post-pandemic, Kyra began her career in Vancouver's music industry with a background in Live Sound Engineering. Within her first year as a freelance live engineer, she was happily running around on the stages of many local festivals such as Khatsahlano Festival, Squamish Constellations, Vancouver International Film Festival, and VMF. Inspired by her many mentors to “wear multiple hats”, Kyra branched out into production and was involved in IndieFest2022 as an Associate Producer as well as IceCreamTruck Live Winter Festival as an Artist Coordinator. 

Understanding how live events are more than just entertainment and how the absence of live music greatly affected her community, Kyra has the desire to establish a diverse and dynamic music scene as well as a platform emerging and BIPOC artists in Vancouver.

Booking agent

Jason N Jang

contact: jasonliveacts@gmail.com

Genre(s): Hip-hop

Booking agent 

Jason Jang “Queezi”

Queezi has been writing, emceeing and performing on stage since he was 13 years old. In his younger years he embraced all elements of the culture and could be found breaking at local dances, freestyling in cyphers, dropping tags around the city and even tried his hands at spinning records. He always felt emceeing was his true calling and often says that “hip hop” saved his life. When he was going through rough times having music in his life always seemed to carry him through to better times.

Queezi has been the host of Roots and Rhymes a showcase of Vancouver Hip Hop and R&B at the Railway, Studio and Portside. Queezi has worked with and collaborated with some of Vancouver’s finest producers, emcees and DJ’s.

Booking agent 

Brett Devloo

contact: brett.devloo@liveacts.ca

Genre(s): Hip-hop/variety

Brett Devloo, better known as TBK (The Blind Kid), is a Canadian recording artist and skateboarder. Since moving to Vancouver in 2018, he has been nothing short of driven to break expectations of what the visually impaired can do.

On November 23rd, 2011, Brett earned his stage name when went blind sitting in the middle of history class. Eight months later, he was officially diagnosed with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy- a genetic disorder with no known cure. A few years later, when couch-surfing at a friend’s place, he was given the opportunity to try free styling into a microphone while standing in a closet. From that moment on, everything changed; he found his passion, and better yet, how he was going to leave his mark on the world.

In addition to creating his own music, Brett also writes for other artists and has extensive experience travelling for music videos, shootings and recordings. Attending Capilano University for Artist and Entertainment Management, Brett has also successfully thrown/ coordinated over 50 shows across Vancouver and Manitoba, and looks forward to working alongside local artists to help them develop their branding and talent.

Booking agent

Jacob Sawatzky

contact: jacob@liveacts.ca

Jacob found his passion for event management through organizing concert fundraisers for the Semiahmoo Peninsula Rotaract, his Rotary International volunteer club. He organized his first concert at the Roxy in 2018 to fundraise for the Guatemala Stove Project, a project where he and 23 others purchased and installed 89 ventilated stoves in rural Guatemalan villages. Over the course of that year, they raised over $80,000 to complete the project in August 2018 through organizing fundraiser events. Since then, Jacob has organized many more concert fundraisers such as Funds for BC Floods, a three-part concert series at Blarney Stone that donated 100% of the proceeds to the Red Cross for BC flood relief. Jacob organized, marketed, and MC'd all of the shows, and also organized an original live art auction at the third show to raise an additional $600 for BC flood relief.

As a drummer in his own band, Jacob has a deep appreciation for all the hard work that artists put into their music. He really likes being able to showcase local musicians and watch the crowd rock out, especially when it contributes towards positive community projects. Or as he likes to call it: “partying with a purpose”.

Jacob is a UBC student in Neuroscience, with a focus on emerging treatments for mental illnesses, such as music therapy. He also works with AMS Events at UBC as an Events Associate, where he helps plan and implement events such as Block Party, a UBC music festival featuring popular hip-hop & EDM artists such as Saint Jhn, Loud Luxury and BBno$. In the future, Jacob hopes to organize bigger and bigger concerts to show how music can do great things for the world!