Nate is available for harmonica, guitar, vocal, and percussion studio work , live gigs, vocal coaching, and production work.
I use music to build bridges from heart to heart, knowing in my soul that we are all ONE LOVE. It is time to gather together and share our stories, our heart songs, our struggles and our victories, and use our voices to proclaim our common heritage: WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE. I truly believe in and have witnessed the power of music to heal, connect, and transcend all perceived boundaries, for music has the power to bring hearts and souls together! I am an artist, poet, singer, guitar, percussion, and harmonica player, and a SINGER!! Let us lift our voices together right now in this world, in this moment in time, to heal the cracks in our collective family, and create the new world of peace and acceptance we know in our hearts, blessings to all who enter this space!!!! PEACEBIO: ROOTS
Nate Stevens was born and raised in St. Paul, MN. Nate grew up around music, with his father Chris playing guitar and bass in several Christian groups, exposing Nate to many styles from early on, including gospel and rock. Nate picked up guitar at the age of 10, and quickly caught on to the fun of performing, having his first performance at church at age 12. In school, Nate performed with a madrigal choir, singing early church music of the 12th-15th century, sang in contemporary performance choirs, and both mixed and male choruses. Nate's choir career culminated in being selected out of thousands of applicants for 1995 All-State choir.
In 1993, Nate began playing and collaborating with other local musicians, writing and singing music and playing many of his favorite bands' material. This collaboration became The Beads, a band Nate would play almost 1,000 shows with over the next 10 years.
Nate Stevens has been on the Minneapolis and Minnesota regional music scene since 1993, starting his career at coffee shops around Saint Paul, and moving into the bar, club & festival scenes in 1994 at the age of 17 with Twin Cities jam band favorites The Beads. Nate performed over 800 shows with The Beads from 1993 through 2002. After leaving The Beads in 2002, Nate sat in and jammed with various bands and projects for the next year or so and played solo gigs. Then in 2004, Nate and two of his brothers, Matt and Sam Stevens, formed Stevens Brothers Band. Stevens Brothers Band played at many clubs and venues in the Twin Cities throughout 2004 & 2005. Then in fall 2005, Stevens Brothers Band went on indefinate hiatus, with occasional reunions still happening . Mad Love was formed in winter 2006, and continues to play occasional shows. 2008 finds Nate in Northern California, loving the redwood forests and recording music. Throughout this time, Nate has appeared all over the region doing solo acoustic shows and sitting in with many friends, has been featured on several recording projects.. see The Talking Roots Crew & the out of print "Ordinary Sunday People" by The Beads. He has also been known to be seen busking the streets of the USA while travelling. Throughout the span of his career, Nate has performed and recorded with many musicians and bands, including Wookiefoot , George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelict , Fancy Bastard , White Iron Band , Zion Tribe , God Johnson , Fat Maw Rooney , Gypsyfoot , The Big Wu and many others.Nate Stevens has performed at Harvest Fest, CedarFest, Big Wu Reunion, Festival for Project Earth, Cinco de Mayo celebrations, weddings, schools, for the Zapatista community in Chiapas, Mexico
I have shared stages with Wookiefoot, Big Wu, White Iron Band, God Johnson, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, The Beads, Fat Maw Rooney, The Talking Roots Crew, Michelle Dunkirk, Javier Trejo, Fancy Bastard, many many moreI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
