STEWED ROOTS: A tasty blend of Folk,Blues and Old Time Country, with a pinch of Cajun to spice things up! Rib-stickin’ good music with Neva Tesolin on accordion and Jeff Hale on guitar and lead vocals.We’ve just finished up our new CD ’ In the Middle of This’. Recorded at the Millstream Studio, produced by Paul Mills, featuring the mighty talents of Al Cross on kit, Bob Hewus on up-right bass, Don Reed on fiddle and violin, Curly Boy Stubbs on mandolin, guitar, banjo, ukelele, hand percussion, backing vocals: Jessie Tesolin cello (and heavy breathing!), and Rick Whitelaw on lead guitars. PHEW!!Should be hittin’ the airwaves soon...
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BROADBAND: Original tunes from 5 multi-talented broads! Beth Bartley, Laura Thomas, Betsy Tauro, Neva Tesolin and Jeff Hale play ... well, yer basic eclectic mix of pert near everything!
THE GLENRIDGE BOYS: Grape Country Music with the original Boys - Gord Watt on lead guitar and lead vocals, Jeff Hale on rhythm guitar and harmony vocals, John Horvatek on up-right but not up-tight bass. The Glenridge Boys has evolved into a nebulous entity featuring some of the best musicians Niagara has to offer including - (Captain) Kirk Smith on fiddle; Brad French on guitars, mandolin and percussion; Bruce Andrews on banjo, guitar, harmonica and vocals; Neva Tesolin on accordion; Ted Cooper on bass....the list goes on and on. Original, Real Country,Bluegrass and CountrySwing!
JAZZABELLES: 4 part harmonies a la Andrews Sisters! Harriet Wichin, Aviva Rajsky, Lisa Kent, Jeff (Lucky) Hale with guitarist Danny Greenspoon.
Influences
Joni Mitchell, Jimmie Rogers, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline, Biff Rose, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Doc Watson,The Beatles, Memphis Minnie, Jerry Jeff Walker,Perth County Conspiracy,The Band, Hank Williams,Mrs. Kemper, Mrs. Douglas, Tom Waits,The Weavers, Willie P. Bennet, CSN&Y,The Everly Brothers,Bill Munroe....well, I guess everyone I ever listened to. I guess I'm still getting influenced- my mother always said I was 'weak-willed and easily lead'...
Jeff (Jennifer) Hale has been writing and playing music for a long, long time.She joined her first band in high school and has been performing ever since. Lead vocals, harmony vocals, a cappella, rhythm guitar, folk, blues, bluegrass, country, rock, roots, swing...
Jeff lives in Toronto and performs there, and in Niagara.
Recent Recordings include:
Stewed Roots - In the Middle of This (2008)
'Blue Canoe Lullaby' featured on Canoesongs Volume 1 (Portage Productions) (2004);
BroadBand (2002);
Women in Music- Live at the Black Sea Hall (2000)
....Jeff plays a 1964 00018 Martin Guitar....
hey there! thanks for the comment! The pix are from panama, not paris, check out those strange birds! and that's jess backpacking in New Zealand! Happy Spring! Nev
Hi!Jeff**Welcome to myspace**It is for people who love and enjoy listening to others sing or play beautiful music. Thank you for being here your new friend Reggie
Hi there Jeff Hale first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people make sure you bookmark the link below so that in the event that we do close our myspace account you won't lose contact with us. I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
‘Hail to yer Jeff Hale’. Thanks for finding us and getting into our music and stuff. Dig what you’re up to and shall be back here again to see how your doing. You have some great songs here. So drop us a comment & Stay in touch. Cheers for befriending Devon’UKs most fiery raucous and hairy rocking folk band The Dambuskers. A legend in their own lunch time.
Hey Jeff, Thanks for stoping by. Love the tunes you got here. Ya, The Cameron House, never played there before, should be good. Hope to see you there. Make sure you stick around for a chat after the show! Cheers, SCOTT NORMANDY www.cdbaby.com/cd/scottnormandy
Hiya Jeff, thanks so much for the kind words. I really enjoyed listening to you as well. I hope we make it up your way at some point in the near future. Take care Morgan
Big thanks for coming out to Hugh's on Tues! Nice to see your friendly face. i looked around for you after but couldn't find you. Wish we could have had a proper chat... Oh well, next time.
