Gayleen Froese
Gayleen Froese
Gayleen Froese is a novelist and musician from Western Canada. She has worked in radio, advertisting, and communications.
Gayleen is an award-winning singer-songwriter who has released three CDs and played showcases across Canada, including Toronto’s NXNE. Her three albums to date are Obituary, Chimera, and Sacrifice.
Toronto’s Eye Weekly says Gayleen’s music “flows and floats effortlessly along in ways those big-name-over-the-top piano women just can’t.”
Northern Journey 2, A Guide to Canadian Folk Music, says “Froese displays an originality that disregards musical fashion.”
Colorado’s Mountain Standard calls Gayleen’s sound “subtle and amorphous … what Lou Reed must mean when he says, “the quiet places that cause the smallest trace of what will be”
Gayleen has lived in Saskatoon and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and in Toronto, Ontario. She now lives in Edmonton, Alberta’s historic Alberta Avenue district.
Gayleen’s first novel, Touch, is a supernatural mystery published by NeWest Press. You can check out Gayleen’s other endeavours at her blog
Christopher Nash
Christopher Nash
In a way, musician and journalist Christopher Nash’s life began when he was murdered by an explosion in a biology laboritory and dumped into a Louisiana swamp. Not long after, he arose from the swamp as a shambling mass of vegetable matter, determined to right wrongs, produce dancible keyboard-based music with an 80s feel, and avenge his death.
It was recently discovered that this leafy “Christopher Nash” is not actually a regeneration of the human who died in the explosion, but instead a plant creature that became imprinted with the mind of the original Chris Nash and believes itself to be him.
Christopher was shocked when he learned this, but he hasn’t let it slow him down. He continues to write, record, develop his home studio, and protect the Earth with his plant-based superpowers.
You can check out the latest on his synthpop band Caffeine Sunday at caffeinesunday.blogspot.com and his roots rock band Original Six on MySpace or Facebook.
Ahem. If the above bio didn’t prove how much of a nerd Gayleen is, nothing will.
-Chris
Whatever, Swamp Thing. You’re talking, but all I hear is burble, burble, burble. Glug.
-Gayleen
