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Chris Pahud

Songs That Resonate

About Me

- {Who?} – I’m Chris Pahud (Swiss-American. Anglicized pronunciation is ‘PAY hood’, like you ‘pay’ the ‘hood’), the father of the amazing Gnat Pahud (*Hmm...is that you son, hacking into my shamelessly self promotioanal profile)? I grew up in Needham and I live in Quincy. I started playing out in the local Boston area about a decade ago. These days I’m doing some recording, some solo gigs and I’m accompanied by some wonderful multifaceted musicians from time to time both on stage and in the studio.- {What?} - I am a bass baritone singer and a guitar picker. My favorite songs to sing are what Stan Rogers called, ‘meaty narrative folk songs’. I also like to call them, ‘songs that resonate’, both sonically and thematically. I do not write a lot of my own material, but some of the writers I cover are Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Tom Russell, Lucinda Williams, Townes Van Zandt and Stan Rogers.- {Where?} - I have managed to play with some regularity on the local circuit for the past ten years. Most of these gigs are feature performances at open mics, opening acts for well known Folkies and some regular festival stints as stage host/musician at the New Bedford Summerfest and the Boston Folk Festival (on the cruise boat). Some of the venues I have played at are The Cross Roads Coffeehouse in Andover, The unCommon Coffeehouse in Framingham, The Homegrown Coffeehouse in Needham, The Mozaic Room in Avon, The Rose Garden Coffeehouse in Mansfield, Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham, The Center For Arts in Natick and Club Passim in Cambridge.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/2/2007
Band Members: On my recording 'in progress', produced by Seth Connelly, I am accompanied by:Seth Connelly (acoustic guitar, bass, vocals),Garnet Rogers (Telecaster, National Steel, slide, vocals),Jerry Corbitt (acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass, vocals)Joe Donnelly (drums) andSteafan Hannigan (low whistles, Uilleann pipes and bodhran) - I started performing in earnest 10 years ago. In the past 2+ years I've gigged solo or with Seth. I performed mostly solo before that and in various ensembles with Phil Kissinger, Chris Canney, the late Cliff Peirce, and Joe Donnelly.For more - click Band Members

Influences: Essentially, I was influenced by my family and friends and those who influenced them musically. I was also influenced by Fred Neil, everybody in the movie "The Last Waltz", Stan and Garnet Rogers. For more - click Influences

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Record Label: unsigned
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My Blog

Morton and Morris this Saturday, May 12th, 10:30 - 7pm in Quincy

Hi Folks,In remembrance of Thomas Morton's May Day celebration 380 years ago last week I bring you this... News flash!!! This Saturday, May 12!!!!from my friend Lynn Noel of Red Herring Morris Dancer...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Thu, 10 May 2007 12:23:00 PST

Link to photos of the April Habitat for Humanity Festival

Here is Steve Ide's web site with many great pictures he shot that day.http://public.fotki.com/idesign/festivals/habitat-benefi t-2007/The festival brought in more than $2,100 for South Shore Habitat f...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Fri, 04 May 2007 05:55:00 PST

May 6th HOT LINKS HERE! Chris, Phil, Seth & Elizabeth de la Vega at Jimmy Tingles

http://www.jtoffbroadway.com/index.php?page=clubcal&display= 630&oldgigs=yesSunday, May 6th, 2007, 3:00 PM- Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway, Somerville Former Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega in Dis...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:48:00 PST

This May 1st is the 380th Anniversary of the Maypole Celebration at Meremount AKA 'Merrymount'

Steafan Hannigan is going to play Bodhran and either Pipes or Low Whistle on my version of 'The Songe'. It was a song written by Thomas Morton just for this occation and though the tune is lost to ti...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:46:00 PST

Chris gets Radio Play - Local, Cape and Islands, Germany

This Sunday Feb. 11, 2007 - between 9:00  10:00PM - WATD, 95.9FM Radio  or live on the web at http://www.loveourmusic.com - The show is "Tomorrow's Dreams" and Bobbie and Steve will play my tune 'Ma...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:15:00 PST

Homegrown Open Mike March 3rd - best open miker gets an opening slot

Hi Folks,Here is the blurb from the Homegrown Coffeehouse for the Open Mike nightPrime Time Open Mike Night 2007Saturday, March 3Chris Pahud Open Mike Night was such a hit last year that we're doingit...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:59:00 PST

Tunes come and go

Many of the tunes rotated up here are from a work in progress. I will sometimes post different tracks of the same tune too (as with 'Around the Bay of Mexico'). Sometimes adding tracks, sometimes sub...
Posted by Chris Pahud on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:27:00 PST