Influences:   Martyn Joseph, Stan Rogers, Raine Maida, Ben Harper, U2, Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Switchfoot, Sufjan Stevens, Five Iron Frenzy, and endless more :D

Chris is a student and church associate. He resides and works with The Bridge Niagara in Niagara Falls, ON and studies a few days a week at Wycliffe College (University of Toronto) on a Masters in Theology and Community Development.

A veteran of many FAWMs (some completed, some not, all awesome) 

Chris is also a singer-songwriter, a budding activist, an amateur team sports guy and is trying to more regular participate in the local FILK scene. Extremely outgoing, eclectic and kind hearted he loves people and conversation so drop him a line.

#1		New Strings acoustic-one-take	5 7 weeks
#2		Lake of Sharks (Row, row, row your boat) acoustic-one-take	5 7 weeks
#3		Because You Lie @ductapeguy protest parody country-folk filk acoustic-one-take	9 6 weeks
#4		Poncho the Dragon children silly lyrics-only	2 6 weeks
#5		Change Now @ductapeguy protest political acoustic-one-take folk	1 5 weeks
#6		06 - Holiday Valley (tune of Paradise City)	1 5 weeks
#7		Hyper Spiritualized Platonic Love Song (Heaven Must Be Inclusive) christian acoustic-one-take folk	1 5 weeks

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  @bethdesombre  7 weeks

  Yes, I have albums! https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/BethD... The most recent one, Resistance, was entirely written during FAWM and on the preceding one, I Was Here half of the songs were FAWM-written.

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  @arthurrossi 7 weeks

  Thanks so much for your kind and supportive comments! Regarding "Tears", it would be an honour to me! 😀

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  @arose  8 weeks

  Thanks for your comment on Tugging! I really love the image you had of the child and parent connected to "tugging", and though it goes a different direction than what I was originally thinking, that image will probably find its way into any future revisions I make. 😀 I also love that question - when are we most ourselves? And a conversation between the child-self and the adult-self about "who I am" would be an interesting song indeed.
  
  Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and for letting my song take you on a thought provoking journey!

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  @bethdesombre  8 weeks

  Thanks SO much for your comments on Redemption Tattoo. It kinda came out of nowhere (and is not your average song . . . ) and I really like it myself, so I'm glad to hear that it works for others.

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  @ericdistad  Feb 3

  Hi Chris! Great to see you back! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this year! Happy Fawming.

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  @chrisshepard Feb 3

  Thank you thank you!!

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  @sexybass  Feb 2

  Welcome back to FAWM and looking forward to your new songs Chris!