Jeff Heisholt

Jeffrey Thoralf Heisholt (born July 28, 1975) is a Canadian keyboardist, vocalist, composer, broadcaster, and producer. In 1996 he formed Burt Neilson Band, with whom he co-wrote and released four records. The band toured Canada twenty times, played more than 1000 shows and became a staple of the Canadian jamband community. Since 2004, he has played across the country with soul-rocker Peter Elkas and contributed to Elkas's second album, the Charlie Sexton produced Wall of Fire. In early 2008, Heisholt joined the touring line-up of Canadian rock band The Trews and has been a part of their live and studio configuration since then.

In 2012, Jeff joined Toronto trio Little Foot Long Foot, writing and producing their 2013 single "Bridge Concerns". In 2013, Jeff also joined the touring lineup of Canadian roots-rock veterans, Skydiggers. Jeff played keys and recorded with Hamilton's Terra Lightfoot from 2015 to 2017.

Heisholt formed Current Fantasy in early 2019, a solo, largely improvised electronic project. He also has hosted a radio show of the same name since early 2020, airing weekly on multiple university radio stations across Canada.

Jeff's mother, Donna Heisholt, is a well known Thunder Bay-based visual artist.

Discography

 * Julian
 * 1994: Julian ep
 * 1998: Pinstripe Pop


 * Burt Neilson Band
 * 1998: Burt Neilson Band
 * 2000: Orange Shag Carpet
 * 2001: Five Alive
 * 2004: By the Door


 * Carrie Catherine
 * 2008: Green Eyed Soul


 * Steven Elmo Murphy
 * 2004: Friends and I
 * 2006: Open For Business
 * 2012: Demon Nights


 * Peter Elkas
 * 2007: Wall of Fire
 * 2011: Repeat Offender
 * 2018: Lion


 * Sean MacDonald & The Astronauts
 * 2008: Pink Noise – (track – Please take me off your list)


 * Trevor Howard
 * 2007: The Healing Sessions


 * The Ragged Bankers
 * 2012: The Ragged Bankers


 * The Trews
 * 2009: The Trews Acoustic – Friends and Total Strangers CD
 * 2009: The Trews Acoustic – Friends and Total Strangers DVD
 * 2010: Highway of Heroes (single)
 * 2011: Hope & Ruin
 * 2012: Thank You and I'm Sorry
 * 2014: The Trews
 * 2016: Time Capsule
 * 2020: 1921 (Single)
 * 2021: Wanderer


 * Mark Crissinger
 * 2009: Fear No Journey
 * 2011: Raw Umber
 * 2013: Terra Nova
 * 2015: Blues Expression
 * 2016: Night Light


 * w/ John-Angus MacDonald
 * 2010: Song For Africa – Rwanda: Rises Up – Yearning


 * Garth Hudson w/ The Trews
 * 2010: Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band! – Move to Japan


 * Dearly Beloved
 * 2012: Hawk vs Pigeon – (World Series of Fedoras & Lizard Fight)


 * Karyn Ellis
 * 2013: More Than a Hero


 * Skydiggers
 * 2013: No.1 Northern
 * 2017: Warmth of the Sun
 * 2020: Lovin You Ain't Easy (Single)


 * Poor Young Things
 * 2013: The Heart. The Head. The End.


 * Molly Thomason
 * 2014: Columbus Field


 * Meredith Shaw
 * 2014: Hardest Goodbye


 * Jerry Leger
 * 2014: Early Riser


 * The Meds
 * 2014: South America


 * The Honeyrunners
 * 2014: EP 2


 * The Kerouacs
 * 2014: The Kerouacs


 * The Once
 * 2014: Departures


 * Little Foot Long Foot
 * 2014: Woman


 * Tim Chaisson
 * 2015: Lost In Light


 * Rufus Wainright
 * 2015: Je reviendrai à Montréal - Single
 * 2015: Forever and a Year - from the HOLDING THE MAN Soundtrack


 * Terra Lightfoot
 * 2017: Live in Concert
 * 2017: New Mistakes


 * Eli and The Straw Man
 * 2017: Light the World


 * Whitehorse
 * 2018: A Whitehorse Winter Classic


 * The Proud Sons
 * 2018: The Proud Sons
 * 2019: Raising Hell (single)


 * Sarah Jane Scouten
 * 2019: Confessions


 * Current Fantasy
 * 2020: Currently Fantastic Vol.1
 * 2020: Beforetimes/Aftertimes (single)
 * 2021: Rio (single)


 * Joan Smith & The Jane Does
 * 2020: Where Did You Sleep Last Night (In The Pines) (Single)


 * Jeen
 * 2020: Jeen
 * 2021: Dog Bite


 * Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar
 * 2020: The Reckless One

As producer

 * Poor Young Things
 * 2011: Get Thorny 3 – Easy


 * Little Foot Long Foot
 * 2013: Bridge Concerns – Single


 * Mark Crissinger
 * 2013: Terra Nova