Since moving permanently to Vancouver in 1983, guitarist Budge Schachte has worked with a stellar cast of diverse artists from poets to symphony orchestras and musical colleagues across a wide variety of types of music, and has toured with them in Canada, the US, Europe and China. Budge’s playing is featured on a number of film soundtracks, and he recently composed, played and recorded the soundtrack for the feature film “Love And Other Dilemmas.” Budge co-leads the Gypsy Jazz group “Van Django,” an acoustic string ensemble . They have recorded live CBC radio shows for “Hot Air” and “Westcoast Performance,” as well as two CDs.