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Wyatt Easterling to Perform at the Mann Art Gallery

Apr 22, 2014 | 2:55 PM

Wyatt Easterling Making Words & Music Flow in Prince Albert

Wyatt has enjoyed success in the music industry over the years as a performer and songwriter as well as a record label and publishing executive. His experience and success in all of these areas have given him a full understanding of what it takes to succeed in this industry.

These days, Wyatt is embracing the life of a troubadour, focusing his energy on bringing his music and his stories directly to his audience. He says, “Playing for new audiences reminds me why I fell in love with music in the first place.”

Mann Art Gallery
142 12 Street W., Prince Albert, SK S6V 3B5
Wednesday, April 23 @ 7:00 pm – Concert –
Songwriting Workshop – Thursday, April 24 (8:30 pm-10:30 pm)

Tickets:
$20 Concert Tickets
$35 Songwriting Workshop
$50 Concert & Workshop

Tickets Available at the Mann Art Gallery
Cash or Credit cards, call 403-455-3175

For further information, call (306) 763-7080

“I’ve known Wyatt since he was a teenager and even helped him make his first album way back in the 80s. I was delighted to hear that he’d stepped back over to the other side of the microphone after years of success as a writer and producer in Nashville! Even as a youngster I loved his songwriting and smooth vocal style but now he has matured into a legitimate triple threat – producer, writer and performer. Goodbye Hello, is a peerless collection of songs sung with quiet conviction and effortless style.” – Don Dixon (writing, production and session credits include Kim Carnes, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Caitlin Cary, Joe Cocker, Counting Crows, Marshall Crenshaw, Hootie and the Blowfish, James McMurtry, Moxy Fruvous, and more.)

With his most recent release, Goodbye Hello, Wyatt’s intricate guitar work and smooth voice immediately pulls in the listener and takes us through poignant stories taken from the world that surrounds each of us.

His career has been full of chart-topping songs including cuts with Dierks Bentley, Joe Diffie, Billy Joe Royal, Paul Thorn, Neal McCoy, Sons of the Desert, Robby Hecht and others

As he says, “In Nashville, there’s nothing a songwriter likes better than a co-writer with a broken heart. You can really mine that for great stuff. That said, I’ve been going through some major life changes so I’ve had my own stuff to mine lately. In the process of writing these songs I discovered, for the umpteenth time, that life is about facing change and embracing it. As this new album began to come into focus, it dawned on me that I'd been writing songs about my own transitions… songs about people coming and going, songs about living and one or two about dying. I must say, Goodbye Hello is the most personal album I’ve recorded to date.”

Growing up in Chapel Hill, NC, Easterling released his debut album, Both Sides of the Shore, on Moonlight Records (Warner Bros.) in 1981. With his album tucked under his arm, he moved to Nashville and began striving to make his way in the music business in whatever way he could. While looking for another record deal, he wrote for various song publishers.

In 1990, he became head of A&R for Atlantic Records Nashville.

That same year, he wrote and sang on 'This Time I’m Takin' My Time” for Neal McCoy’s album At This Moment. This collaboration launched more than two decades of gold and platinum winning releases with Wyatt acting as songwriter, producer, executive and/or session player. Wyatt’s partnership with Miles Copeland (The Police & Sting) Bugle Publishing Group and Firstars Management occupied him in the late ‘90s and early 2000s.

This Spring, Wyatt is doing what he loves most – sharing his songs with his audience in Prince Albert, SK.

www.wyatteasterling.com