Gordie tentrees biography
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Biography
BREAKING NEWS!The title track 'Bottleneck to Wire' is currently a semi-finalist in the Folk/Singer/Songwriter category in the 2007
International Songwriting Competition!
Gordie Tentrees is also a 2008 Official North American Folk Alliance Showcase winner!
Recent Tour News May 1/08
Hello everybody,
We are finally home! 33 shows in 25 days in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alberta, what a hoot. We had a great time, thank you so much for supporting our music!
Thanks for inviting us into your homes, feeding us and giving us a taste of life elsewhere. If I miss mentioning you, please forgive me.
Special thanks to my Yukon pals Mark Smith, Natalie Edelson, Kim Beggs, Kim Barlow, and Jim King for your help at Folk Alliance, Yukon Film and Sound, Yukon Arts Fund, and invited Yukon Roots Suite artists David Myles, Catherine McClellan, Stephen Fearing, Joel Plaskett, Bill Bourne & Madagascar Slim, John Wort Hannam, Maria Dunn, and the Mcdades helping to
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Gordie Tentrees
Mean Old World is his 8th release and will be supported by 400 tour dates in North America, europe, UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Australia in 2022-23.This authentic road poet travels North amerika, Europe, Australia, UK & Ireland with 7 records behind him either solo or with legendary sideman Jaxon Haldane (famed Winnipeg band-D-Rangers) never repeating han själv on scen. From Celtic Connections (Glasgow, Scotland) to the National Folk Festival (Canberra, AU) his ability to hold an audience, weave melody, while juggling the dark with the light fryst vatten infectious. Performed 750 concerts in 11 countries during the past 4 years armed with 10 instruments, brotherly harmonies and masterful storytelling. Influenced by touring with friends Fred Eaglesmith, Mary Gauthier, Steve Poltz & Kelly Joe Phelps, Tentrees fryst vatten just getting started.
“Tentrees’ delivery fryst vatten so relaxed and unpretentious it’s impossible to not get drawn into his world, sounding like a young John Prine.”– NO
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Going back and forth across this country from the Yukon, Gordie has performed some 200 shows a year either solo or with his band. He writes his own songs, plays a guitar, uses a slide, blows a harmonica, and is sometimes touched with a voice like a bird on a warm spring morning belting out the last day on earth. He also does other things before he gets to share his music like book his tours, promote them, manage his band, radio track his records, act as an agent, road manager, publicist, apply for things, pay for everything, parent the kids and make time for the girl.
His debut album "29 Loads of Freight" was released in 2004 to rave reviews, more shows, a documentary (www.topoftheworldfilms.com) and the opportunity to munch on many a snack tray with his hero's.
In 2007 Gordie released his second album "Bottleneck to Wire' with special guests Roger Marin (Fred Eaglesmith Band)- pedal steel, Jaxon Haldane (D-Rangers)- banjo, Amelia Rose (Fishhead Stew)