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\"\"<\/a>From Bio:\u00a0 With three solo albums under his belt and the independent musical gem \u2018Broken Hearted Beat\u2019 with his band Morning Fold, Chaisson is on a fast rise to dominating his genre. A quick glimpse of his achievements over the past two years reveals an enviable onslaught of accolades: a performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics, awards for Songwriter of the Year, Entertainer of the Year, Pop Recording of the Year and Group of the Year and a nomination for the East Coast Music Awards’ 2010 Pop Recording of the Year.<\/p>\n

In Australia on his first trip here, minus his band Morning Fold, Tim Chaisson is here to showcase songs from his awesome new album ‘Broken Hearted Beat’ which has just been released here in Australia, while here he has been playing solo acoustic shows with Shannon Noll and The Trews and will also step out and play some of his own shows including the Sydney Blues & Roots Festival where he is sure to blow the crowd away.\u00a0 At 25 years old and with close to 10 years in the business, he is one of the Best Things We’ve Never Heard so we wanted to share his music with you all.\u00a0 Tim took the chance to talk to us about his music and future plans, his musical upringing and how much he already loves Australia.<\/p>\n

We give you Tim Chaisson…<\/p>\n

You\u2019re in Australia to release your newest album, with it already being out for quite some time in Canada why was now the right time to bring it to us in Australia?<\/strong>
\nWell I think the timing just kind of matched up well and I honestly didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be here as soon as I came because I met Geoff Trio and Josh Daly of the Harbour Agency just a few months ago at a conference and festival in Canada and they just saw me play with my band and thought that it\u2019d be kind of a cool fit to come to Australia, so we just decided to get it going as quick as we could and a few months later I\u2019m down here, so it just worked out well.\u00a0 And releasing the album as well through ABC Music and Universal came about in the last few months so yeah, I guess that\u2019s the story.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been here supporting Shannon Noll as well as doing some shows with The Trews, how has the reaction been so far?<\/strong>
\nPretty good I think, there\u2019s been a lot of people at the shows and a lot of music lovers.\u00a0 The shows with Shannon have been awesome, he has a lot of big fans here in Australia I see and tend to be pretty fair and playing for them they seem to appreciate what I do and especially doing all the shows solo, it\u2019s a little bit different to playing with the band, so yeah, it\u2019s ben great.\u00a0 A lot of cool people here and music lovers.<\/p>\n

How different is it playing as a solo artist than having your band there behind you?<\/strong>
\nYeah its way different, it\u2019s kind of funny, you know you have to pick up your socks a bit whenever you go out there for a month by yourself and when you\u2019re used to playing with one other guy or three other guys so it\u2019s definitely a different dynamic on stage and I do enjoy it.\u00a0 That\u2019s how I started off, just playing up on stage by myself, but yeah, you don\u2019t get to play off anybody on stage which is kind of somewhat of a downfall I find, you know, having fun up there with somebody else, but just more interaction with the crowd and stuff like that but it\u2019s been going great so far.<\/p>\n

I notice you had John Angus from The Trews get up with you at the Basement in Sydney the other night which was great<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s right, yeah, I\u2019m sad, they just left yesterday, I wish he could\u2019ve stuck around and played all the shows with me.<\/p>\n

Your music you could say is based on very traditional music, is that something you grew up on or did that just develop as you grew into your musical body so to speak?<\/strong>
\nNo I definitely grew up on the Celtic music, it goes back many generations in my family, my Grandfather was a fiddler and my Dad and my Uncles, and I have a really large family so the music was really strong, with the folk and the traditional music and as we kind of grew up we listened to different styles of music as well.\u00a0 You know you listen to what\u2019s on the radio and you listen to what your peers are listening to and whatever music your parents listen to, it was really broad growing up as well too so I think and a transition into song writing was, I didn\u2019t really think about it, it just kind of happened, you know keeping the traditional roots and also doing the song writing, maybe in little more of a contemporary style seemed to fit I guess. Yeah so just kind of keeping up both of them.<\/p>\n

Who would you sight as some of your major influences?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, I\u2019m not really sure about any one in particular, I listen to so many different things and so many different artists, in any genre of music I think I have somebody that stands out or a few bands that stand out, but I think on the East Coast growing up there and almost being secluded to being on the East Coast, I listened to a lot of acts from there.\u00a0 A lot of folk acts and a lot of rock acts from there, so, just a lot of different bands I guess you could say, you know, like Tom Petty is one of my biggest influences for sure and I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard of Stan Rogers, or The Rankin Family, or any East Coast artists, they\u2019re definitely a huge influence on me as well.<\/p>\n

Was music always what you were destined to do?<\/strong>
\nI think, it was the only think that I was kind of good at so I loved it and to go out in to a career with it over the last few years has been pretty cool.<\/p>\n

This being your first time to Australia, were you given any pointers by anyone of what to expect?<\/strong>
\nWell, I talked to The Trews guys a little bit because they had been here before, but not really, they just said the people are cool and very laid back and the weather is beautiful.\u00a0 Yeah I had friends that were here before too and they didn\u2019t want to go home, they loved it here, so I definitely was \u00a0excited to come.\u00a0 But as far as the music and the venues and stuff like that go it was just a matter of going in to it and taking it all as it comes.<\/p>\n

Have you hit up any other territories or do you have plans to?<\/strong>
\nYeah I\u2019ve done in and around the Sydney area and I went to Cessnock the other night, this week I\u2019m going to Adelaide and Melbourne and Brisbane, so I\u2019m excited to travel a little around the country and then I\u2019ll be back in Sydney for the Blues & Roots festival and another show at the Brass Monkey.<\/p>\n

What about outside of Canada, have you done the States at all?<\/strong>
\nYeah I\u2019ve done a little bit of stuff in the States but not a whole lot, I\u2019ve been travelling mostly back and forth across Canada the last little bit, so it is nice to be able to travel to another country to see how it goes here and hopefully I\u2019ll be back again.<\/p>\n

You should go Nashville, they would love you\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah I went to Nashville just two months ago to write with some people down there and I loved it, I absolutely loved it.<\/p>\n

What I noticed is that you have somewhat of a Keith Urban sound as well, which relates to us here\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah I hear that quite a bit and I know that he\u2019s from Australia and it\u2019s funny because I think Keith Urban is really talented but I never really listen to his music until someone had mentioned to me that I sound like him, so I don\u2019t know where that came from I\u2019m not sure but he\u2019s very talented he\u2019s awesome, he\u2019s really good and I do get that quite often actually ha ha.<\/p>\n

You mentioned before that you\u2019re also part of the Sydney Blues & Roots festival at the end of this month, for those that haven\u2019t had a chance to catch you yet, what can people expect from a Tim Chaisson show?<\/strong>
\nWell since I\u2019m here solo, I have an acoustic guitar and a mandolin and a fiddle, so I\u2019ll be playing my original songs, they\u2019re more acoustic based and I\u2019m also going to play a few fiddle tunes to just kind of show Australia what the East Coast of Canada is like, so yeah that\u2019s what you can kind of expect.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve already released 3 solo albums before and this newest with your band Morning Fold, how do you go into a band album compared to a solo record?<\/strong>
\nWell for the last record that I made before this Morning Fold record, I played all the instruments on it and I produced it and wrote everything myself, and with this one I co-wrote and I had my band play the instruments on it and I also hired a producer for it too so it was just more of a sharing process and it was really a learning process too cause whenever you make a record by yourself you\u2019re kind of like straight ahead in what you\u2019re doing but to have all these influences that are going on around you and having all these other people\u2019s input really takes songs in a different direction that you never would\u2019ve done by yourself.\u00a0 It was awesome, it was really cool and I plan on doing the next record like that as well.<\/p>\n

Have you been working on new material and can we expect a new album soon?<\/strong>
\nYeah I have a bunch of new stuff and we\u2019re going to record in the new year, so in the next few months we\u2019re going to get back in the studio and have something released for the Summer of 2012.<\/p>\n

And are you planning to bring the band back with you next time?<\/strong>
\nI hope so, that\u2019s my goal.<\/p>\n

In Canada though, you\u2019re quite the celebrity, with awards left, right and centre as well as appearances at places like the Winter Olympics, do you have a highlight over your career so far that you can share with us?<\/strong>
\nWell there\u2019s a few different things that stand out.\u00a0 I know that playing in Canada and going on tour with The Trews, because The Trews are one of the biggest bands in Canada right now and playing for their sold out crowds every night was definitely a highlight.\u00a0 Then playing at the Olympics as well was awesome because all those shows were sold out too and people from all around the world were there.\u00a0 Those two kind of stick out to me, but all of the shows that we\u2019ve been doing lately, everyone is setting a new bar for the level that we\u2019d like to get to, it\u2019s been great in Canada and I\u2019m going on tour as soon as I get back home.<\/p>\n

Lastly, what does 2012 hold for you do you have any big plans?<\/strong>
\nYeah well making a new record is high on the list and releasing it before the Summer, and just more touring and as soon as I get home I\u2019m touring the Western part of Canada and in the New Year we\u2019ll be doing probably in between the record we\u2019ll be doing more shows in Central Canada and Eastern Canada as well too and then hopefully another trip to Australia before too long.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Prince Edward Island, Canada<\/p>\n

Sounds like:<\/strong> Acoustic Folk Rock<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> www.timchaisson.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> Broken Hearted Beat (2011 – ABC Music \/ Universal Music Australia)<\/p>\n

Check him out if you like:<\/strong> A Tom Petty, Keith Urban kind of vibe<\/p>\n

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