All concert attendees must be vaccinated and face masks must be worn indoors. Peter Boland has been playing music and writing songs his whole life. His first solo album was called Frame, released in 2002. It earned a Best Americana Album nomination at the San Diego Music Awards. His band, The Coyote Problem, won the Best Americana Album prize for both their albums, Wire in 2005 and California in 2007, at the San Diego Music Awards. Subsequently, Peter “fired” himself from his own band and released his solo album, Two Pines, also nominated for Best Americana album. Peter, in addition to being a singer/songwriter/musician, is also a speaker, writer, and philosophy professor, and has said “In my mind, all of these various modes of expression root back to a common core – the hunger to understand and the passion to connect. To me, philosophy, spirituality, and art are healing modalities – we turn to them to salve our wounds, bind our broken places, and cultivate our growth. Whether in song, in prose, or in oratory, I simply want to open up to the grandeur and depth of being alive.” Rupert Wates was born in London. He signed an exclusive publishing deal with Eaton Music in the late 1990s and has been a full-time songwriter ever since. He moved to the United States in fall 2006. Since 2007, he has won over fifty songwriting awards. He has released eleven full-length CDs. Each has received outstandingly good reviews, and has been played regularly by radio stations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Australia, and The Netherlands. In 2015 and 2016, over twenty of his songs were recorded by other performers, and two tribute albums to his material were recorded by independent artists in Nashville and Los Angeles. Rupert averages 120 live shows per year, for audiences totaling around 3,500 annually, in America, Canada, and Europe. Everyone who hears him responds to his acoustic, melodic, haunting songs that ring true. Follow on Rupert Wates on Facebook!
