” After nearly a decade of touring, including recent European dates with four-time Grammy winner Manny Kellough, Victoria born jazz pianist Ashley Wey returns home to release her full-length debut, Star Seeds, at Hermann’s Jazz Club Nov. 26th at 8:30pm. The former North Saanich resident will perform with drummer Kelby MacNayr and bassist Sean Drabitt. They are long-time friends and musical compatriots who also acted as her studio band while recording the CD this past spring. Acting as producer, composer and performer on her debut recording, Wey “wanted to explore love and romance from a few different viewpoints.” She added interpretations of standards including Sinatra’s Nice and Easy and the Doris Day Classic Secret Love, as well as four of her original jazz compositions. Special guests on Star Seeds include vocalist Azure McCall, violinist Taylor Rankin and Argentinian guitarist Pablo de Luca. For more information including music samples, please visit www.ashleywey.com.”
- Peninsula News Review (Nov 25, 2011)

“Ashley Wey has a star-studded resume, but her list of collaborations- which include work with everyone from Grammy winner Manny Kellough to Juno winners the Parachute Club- is only the beginning. Wey, a Victoria-bre jazz vocalist and Duke Ellington Award winner, can swing on her own, indeed. With support from bandmates Kelby MacNayr (drums) and Sean Drabitt (bass) she’ll do just that during her concert on Saturdeay to celebrate her new CD, Star Seeds.”
- Mike Devlin, The Times Colonist, Victoria, BC (Nov 24, 2011)

“keyboardist Ashley Wey has been playing piano in jazz clubs since the age of 15. She has studied with international jazz icons including George Cables, Pat LaBarbera, Don Thompson and Hilaro Duran. She has received the Duke Ellington Award for arranging and composition, and was also the youngest person ever to be awarded the prestigious Fraser MacPherson scholarship. Recently, Ashley has worked with Grammy Award winner Manny Kellough, as well as with Pearl Kaufman, and American Idol star Kimberly Locke. She has also toured Canada with 2006 Canadian Idol winner Eva Availa, and with Juno Award winning 80’s world-pop group The Parachute Club.”
North Saanich Online (Oct 04, 2011) 

“This year pianist Ashley Wey, whom Mar first heard at Hermann’s when she was 12 years old, is taking her quartet—Leon Nagasaki on guitar, Damian Graham, percussion, and vocalist and bass player Aaron Scoones—to schools to turn students on to the sweet sounds of jazz with concert-and-workshop combos. Of the Jazz in the Schools program, Graham the drummer says, “I think the main benefit for students is to have contact with people who make music for a living, giving them access to how it is done and showing them a positive role model for something that is often regarded as a hobby. We show up and play music to the best of our ability but with an added element of interaction with the students. For instance, we will stop and explain what we just did and the steps we took to be able to do that. I can remember groups coming and performing in my school and it was always a highlight. What is more important than fostering the arts? Doctors save people and artists give people a reason to live”
- Focus Magazine