Personal Life
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1952. His first piano teacher was his mother Laura Randall, who played classical and jazz and taught the neighborhood children. His family moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1961, and they became Canadian citizens in 1967.
Jan married Ina Dykstra in 2011. Ina has been teaching piano in St. Albert, Alberta since 1969.
jan Randall's community volunteer work includes serving as treasurer for the Inglewood Community League from 1993-1994, and as treasurer for the Strathcona Housing Coop from 2008-2009. He also served on the board of the Guild of Canadian Film Composers from 2002-2009.
In 2004 Jan Randall received a letter from a cousin of folk singer Arlo Guthrie that contained information revealing they all shared a great-great grandfather Raphael Stukelman. Later that year he attended a cousins reunion in San Francisco and they all met with Arlo backstage a concert he gave there.
In 2006 Jan Randall began work as a radio host on CKUA radio with the Weekend Breakfast show which he produced until 2009.
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