To all of the fans and folks in Port Alberni – we’ll be performing another show there on May 22nd at Char’s Landing.
I will be joined on this tour by Ken Cade (electric violin) and Ross Fairbairn (bass).
We hope to see many of you out for this one!
Cheers!
The only way to celebrate your birthday is to be surrounded by friends and family and this is what happened last Friday, May 10 at The Cottage Bistro. It was an awesome night of entertaining folk music with some of the best singer/songwriters in Vancouver joining me on stage – Chris Ronald, Harriet Frost, Ev Yngveson, Ross Fairbairn, Jason Lowe and many more joining in with a stellar “house band” made up of Ken Cade, Rob Boshaw, and Marke Andrews. We raised over $200 for the BC Crisis Center that evening thanks to the many friends and fans that contributed. Thanks also to Eugene, the owner of the Cottage Bistro, for his support, staffing and great food!
Hi Everyone,
I’ve got a big band playing with me tomorrow night at The Heritage Grill in New Westminister.
Rob Boshaw – Lead Guitar
Ken Cade – Electric Violin
Pat Covernton – Keyboards
Ross Fairbairn – Bass
Marke Andrews – Drums
Come out and join us as return to this great venue….No Cover
Hello my dear Joyfest friends,
Yes, the rumors are true! Due to an increasing amount of demand and interest by so many, Joy Fest 2013 will be happening this summer! We had such a huge success two years ago, we were frankly afraid that we couldn’t pull it off again. Yet, here we are facing our fears and going for it!
So we will be accepting email submissions for the over twenty five openings that we have available for this event. Merely send an email to gchatten@gmail.com with an attached EPK or Bio/photo/link to your music website for us at Soaring Eagle Music to peruse. Make sure you have JOY FEST 2013 as your Subject title. The submission deadline is May 30, 2013.
We will consider all submissions but, unfortunately, because of the number of limited openings, not all submissions will be accepted. I hope you understand. We have such a deep and rich community of musical talent here in Vancouver, it is impossible to showcase everyone that applies.
I will be sending out more information as the weeks build towards this great event.
Much peace and, of course, joy to you all,
Glenn Chatten
Artistic Director
Soaring Eagle Music
Last fall, I was approached by my good friend and novelist, Mark Boyter, who suggested a collaboration of my music and his newest novel, Crescent Moon Over Laos. He gave me the manuscript to read and a provided an old fashioned slide presentation which both together blew me away. From that inspiration, I wrote the “sound-scape song” with the same title.
I have been recording it with violinist/producer, Ken Cade, and it will be out on the novel’s website very soon.
This opportunity has given me a totally different change in direction of my song and music writing. I’m excited with the possibilities that abound from this collaboration. Stay tuned!
www.cresecentmoonoverlaos.com
Looking forward to beginning a new tour in February 2013 with the wonderfully talented singer/songwriter, Sue Turner. As well as performing her own outstanding songs, Sue brings a magical and meaningful essence of harmony and lightness to my songs with her uplifting vocals and excellent keyboard and guitar styles. Turner and Chatten
Oh I love the Prairies … so much so that I’ll be returning back to Regina and Moose Jaw in November 2012.
Bushwakker Pub, Regina – Nov 14th
Kerganos, Moose Jaw – Nov 16th
Hurray !!
September 7th 9pm Frankies Italian Kitchen 765 Beatty Street, Vancouver
September 8th 8pm The Heritage Grill 447 Columbia Street, New Westminster
September 9th 10am The Coho Run Festival Capilano Dam, North Vancouver
September 18th 8pm Cottage Bistro 4468 Main Street, Vancouver
September 22nd 8pm Evergreen Theatre 1205 Pine tree Way, Coquitlam
September 28th 8pm Genesis Theatre 5005 45th Ave, Ladner
To pursue music, Glenn Chatten left behind a place of material comfort.
Ten years ago he was a family man and businessman who owned and operated a successful contracting company. You see, though he’s long been a skilled musician, he started this adult life with more of an eye for the material comforts music seldom brings, and found it instead in contracting. But now he’s left behind that traditional idea of success and dances in the kind of uncertainty one goes through in youth in search for a success of a different kind.
Sentiments conveyed in the title track of Glenn Chatten`s 1985 debut album, Running Away From Life Again, speak of his relationship with success. Upon reflection Glenn says the title song spoke more of his truth, or his lack of truth, than he realized at the time because in those days the chase of his dreams and the chase of his days were completely different from each other. The success he knew of then was a material measure that disguised a deeper lie within. The truth is he says, “I never dreamed of being a contractor.”
So, when Glenn Chatten divorced and left his Ontario home in 2006 he was travelling to a place on the West Coast he felt called to be.
Glenn took a lot of time getting to know himself upon his arrival in BC with a lot of introspective meditation and came to write songs that reflected a deeper version of who he was.
By 2010 he had enough of this strong material for a second album, Where You Need To Be, which is a title response to Running Away From Life Again and a reflection of his change of heart.
And now, based on the commercial success of “Where You Need To Be”, 2012 will see Glenn Chatten touring full time.
For his first five years in Vancouver, Glenn held a job to support his music while it took form, but now music is going to be his job.
Very few musicians carry Glenn`s kind of authenticity, and audiences are seeing the music as a positive transformative force.
The shows have already been building a great reputation, and as he travels across the country the life he once ran from will finally be travelling with him.
Ryan Fletcher
Here are the dates for the Ontario Tour (with Fiddler, Ken Cade)
June 1st Stinking Rose Cafe, Campbellford, Ont
June 2nd Cameron St Coop, Cannington, Ont
June 3rd Westminster United Church, Waterloo, Ont
June 5th The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ont
June 6th C’est What Cafe, Toronto, Ont
June 7th HomeLike Inn, Cobourg, Ont
June 9th The Registry Theatre, Kitchener, Ont
