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Name:
Gordie Tentrees
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Joined:
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Website:
Yukon Roots Music
About Me:
His 3rd album " Mercy or Sin" produced by Juno Winner Bob Hamilton, was nominated for a 2010 Western Canadian Music Award for 'Roots Solo Album of the Year". The title track was also a finalist out of 15 000 entries in the 2010 International Songwriting Competition. Judges included Tom Waits, Loretta Lynn and Jerry Lee Lewis. He performed at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for the New Songs New Voices concert selected as the best of Canada's songwriters to perform during the games. He was also selected by CBC Radio's 2009 Song Quest as one of Canada's top songwriters and hosted the prestigous SOCAN songwriters circle at the 2009 WCMA's.
He has toured with Fred Eaglesmith, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Ray Wylie Hubbard. He will be releasing his 5th album "North Country Heart" in early 2012 with tours in Canada, US, Europe, UK and Scandinavia.
This former school teacher, breakdancer, and golden gloves boxer has toured from Newfoundland to Finland to Oklahoma and back again averaging 200 concerts a year.
"Tentrees is so relaxed and unpretentious it's impossible to not get dragged into his world" NO DEPRESSION
" In the rough cut vein of Fred Eaglesmith or Kelly Joe Phelps, Tentrees is gifted" GLOBE & MAIL
"He has an intense ability to capture the human condition with writing and performing that oozes truthiness" AMERICANA MUSIC TIMES
Hometown:
Whitehorse
Country:
Canada
Music:
The Sadies, Fred Eaglesmith, Rick Fines, Ray Bonneville, Chris Smither, Sam Baker, Adam Carroll
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Nov 12, 2011- Sarah MacDougall 'The Greatest Ones Alive' CD release at the Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
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