Up All Night

Alex Cheung – Fiddle

Alex Cheung is a unique violinist/fiddler who is not afraid to try any musical genre.  With formal classical training under his belt, Alex’s musical explorations in the last 15 years have taken him into the worlds of Celtic, pop/rock, folk, electronic, R&B and jazz music.  Alex now teaches violin and theory lessons, both privately and at several music schools in the Greater Toronto Area.  He is currently a member of several bands: Up All Night (Celtic band), the Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra (contemporary/experimental chamber ensemble), the McFlies (acoustic 80’s band). He has collaborated and performed with many artists, including singer/songwriters Adlai Waxman, Philomene Hoffman, Melanie Joy, Michael Holt, Peter Shaw and the late Kenny MacLean (former Platinum Blonde bassist).  His music has taken him to the Canadian Country Music Awards Showcase (2003) with Donna Ferra and the Montreal Jazz Festival (2005) with Julie Crochetière.  Alex has appeared on Breakfast Television twice with his bands, and performs regularly in Toronto.  In 2006, his music arrangement and production skills earned him compliments from Peter Gabriel (Genesis) in the “Shock the Monkey Remix Competition”.

Dale Miller - Lead Vocals / Trumpet

Dale Miller is an accomplished performer who graduated with honours in 1997 from Acadia University with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance in Voice and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education. Dale and his brother Derek started “Up All Night” in Ottawa in the summer of 1994 and the following year Dale formed the award winning band “Ceilidh’s Homet”, a Nova Scotia based Celtic band which received a F.A.C.T.O.R. grant for a New Talent Demo Award CD. Dale also spent two years as a featured member of the semi-professional improvisational comedy troupe “The Improv Knights” in Halifax, NS. and was a member of the 1996 National Youth Choir. A professional actor, Dale has appeared in such shows as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Mayfield), Les Miserables (1000 Islands Playhouse), The Giant’s Garden (Theatre Orangeville), Side By Side By Sondheim (Theatre Collingwood), I Do I DO (Tribal Productions), Victor/Victoria, Forever Plaid (Stage West), The Handmaid’s Tale (Canadian Opera Company), Knickerbocker Holiday (TOT), lead singer with Holland America Cruise Lines, Canadian Idol Finale Seasons 3 and 4 (CTV), Cats, Evita, Gypsy, Jesus Christ Superstar (Neptune Theatre) and has performed with such talents as Heather Rankin, Alfie Zappacosta, and Gary Sandy. Slainte!

Derek Miller – Guitars / Vocals

Derek Miller is a five-time Gemini Award-nominated TV producer who’s worked as a documentary director, reporter and senior news producer for CTV, Citytv and TVO.  No wonder he needs an aggressive musical outlet.  He’s an original member of up all night, and has been the rhythm guitarist since its inception in 1993. Miller’s known for his speed-metal-acoustic-strumming and weight-shedding performances.  “I try to play like I’m in the kitchen or the campfire back in Cape Breton, surrounded by a bunch of friends and Crown Royal.  I think that feeling turns spectators into participants.”

Chris Patheiger – Percussion / Vocals

Percussionist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, teacher and composer Chris Patheiger started playing music at the age of ten – and quickly developed an intense interest in jazz and pop music. Chris studied privately for a few years and has played with several bands ranging from rock, to Latin and jazz.

At 20 he joined the Jazz program at Humber College in Toronto where he was enrolled in the percussion program to study arranging, jazz improvisation, jazz composition, and harmony. At Humber, Chris had the opportunity to study Latin percussion under renowned Canadian percussionist and bandleader Memo Acevedo.

Chris has performed and recorded with such artists as Jason Fowler, Andrea Florian, Hugh Marsh, Memo Acevedo, Jack Dekyser, Matthew Osborne, John Switzer, Dyan Maracle, The Right Honorable Bob Rae, Soulfarm, Compass, Mike Freedman, Uncle Seth, Act’uv Dawg, Sandy Stubbert, Zou Zou, Samba Squad, Rick Lazar, The Not Affiliated Big Band, Special Ed – and the Musically Challenged, Squirm, Blake Crowl Papsin and others.

Mark Sinclair – Double Bass

Mark is the Grandson of a Cape Breton fiddler and is enjoying a return to his musical roots. A graduate of the Humber Music Performance program he has toured the country and beyond on Cruise Ships and with numerous bands covering styles from Rock and Jazz to Roots music sharing the stage with the the likes of April Wine, Blue Rodeo and Kim Mitchell not to mention Elephants and Tigers while on tour with various Circus bands.