Profile
Hearing Headwater is like listening to the West Coast of Canada in song. Freewheeling, fierce, sentimental and sexy, the Vancouver, B.C., quartet has earned its reputation as one of the finest acoustic, roots groups around the old-fashioned way - they work their asses off.
Since forming in 2001, the group has logged in thousands of kilometers criss-crossing Western Canada and playing to anyone and everyone willing to give it some love. With hooks, driving rhythms, adventurous steel guitar, mandolin solos, and beautiful three-part vocal harmonies all featured in tight, concise, four-minute songs, they found fans fast. Or, they roped them in at first, street busking before gigs rather than hanging out waiting for crowds to come to them.
Jonas Shandel (guitar, banjo, vocals) and Matt Bryant (mandolin, vocals) started writing songs together in grade school in North Vancouver. They had an electric power trio where Shandel drummed and Bryant did six-string duty and all that really came out of that experience was frustration over volume and never finding a vocalist that fit. "We couldn't find a reliable singer, so we said 'screw this,' we'll do it," says Shandel.
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Artist Websites
Homepage:
http://www.headwater.ca
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/headwater
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/headwaterband
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/headwatermatt
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