O, no! Chris, always excited to jump onto any stage with any musicians at any moment to open his "face piano" kit and treat all listeners to his joyous, bouncing energy and world-class harmonica soul!  
Tho' we lost contact a few years after my 1984 return to California, I treasured -- and still do -- his friendship and musical companionship, from hanging out at each other's mini-apartments or on summer beaches around Vancouver to his joining me onstage to add joy to my gigs at Outlaws New Years 1980, the Dominion Hotel and other dumpy or high-end pubs, clubs, & restaurants all over the Lower Mainland.

Chris was and remains a treasure.  I am deeply anguished to rediscover him only and finally thru his obituary.  But his smart, vibrant, very human Chris-ness will always live on with me.
Dave Mandel
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=WICy8a4oV9A

I just saw this notice about Chris. We were friends in Vancouver in 1974. We worked together at a goldsmith shop and we were good friends back then. Chris and I applied for a Canada Council Grant for a photography and poetry project. He was very creative, like that. But we lost touch over the years and I am sorry to find him this way.  If anyone could contact me at rwh@rogers.com and explain to me what happened to him, i would appreciate it. 

Randy Hurst
rwh@rogers.com

I just spent the day at Christopher's celebration of life at RCL 179. I knew Christopher for about 9 years and only realized today how little I knew about him, and what I knew was already amazing. Thank you to Steve and Lise. He will always be my friend and I will always miss him - you, and so many others, gave me many more reasons for that to be the case.

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12 agosto, 1954 – 4 octubre, 2019

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