BIOGRAPHY: BRANDER RAVEN MCDONALD
-Brander Raven McDonald is a Peguis Status Cree (Manitoba, Canada), Artist, Performer & Facilitator with Indigenous lineage. He enjoys his two sons and growing family.
-Brander holds a BA in Fine Arts and Psychology concentrations, as well as a diploma in Recording and Audio Engineering. He also has trained and worked in Counselling. He is a wonderfully talented multi-media artist and Indigenous role model.
-Many people describe him as quietly and powerfully talented, a deep thinker, listener in whose intuitiveness is valued by all who have worked with him and especially to those who have been touched by his talents and abilities. He is proudly Spiritual and has always felt a powerful personal connection to Creator and credits this for sustaining him in trials of life. Brander's hope is to present encouragement through his Arts based on his Indigenous cultural identity.
GIGSALAD BOOKING INFO & BIOGRAPHY
Price Range: $750 per hour performance. 50% Deposit required.
Gig Length: 30 - 50 minutes
Languages: English
What to Expect
ORIGINAL SONGS ONLY. Insightful and gifted story teller in song. An Indigenous perspective. With a back ground in Fine Arts, Music, Recording Engineering, Counselling Therapist, Writing, and Indigenous Philosophy to bring you a thought provoking and evocative experience. Great songwriting and easily understood as a word painter. Sometimes deeply personal, sometimes prophetic and political, sometimes tongue in cheek humorous. You will be brought back to the days where songwriters were seen as able to portray the tragic hero, sinner and saint in the webs of their musical expression.
About
Brander started guitar at the age of 18 and very quickly developed to writing and performing his own original songs a year later with a band. His vocal styles give impressions of Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Rodriguez, Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn,Mark Knopfler, Sting, Santana and Bob Marley. His guitar work is blues, jazz, reggae, world music and alternative styles. By the age of 30 he had amassed over 200 songs, recorded privately hundreds of ideas.
1993 he worked and lived with the late Larry Norman (the Gospel Rock innovator) as a Assistant Producer & opening act for Solid Rock records Studio City, California. The 1994 LA earthquake brought him back to Canada. In 2000 he played live with Larry at Creation Fest 2000 West at the gorge amphitheatre in central Washington.
Brander has quietly carved a wonderful body of music and is now eager to share it.
Additional Booking Notes
Require sound system, mics and PA, monitors and power.
Please contact artist directly as per needs for venue Email: [email protected]
Services Offered
Singing Guitarist/Native American Entertainment
-Brander holds a BA in Fine Arts and Psychology concentrations, as well as a diploma in Recording and Audio Engineering. He also has trained and worked in Counselling. He is a wonderfully talented multi-media artist and Indigenous role model.
-Many people describe him as quietly and powerfully talented, a deep thinker, listener in whose intuitiveness is valued by all who have worked with him and especially to those who have been touched by his talents and abilities. He is proudly Spiritual and has always felt a powerful personal connection to Creator and credits this for sustaining him in trials of life. Brander's hope is to present encouragement through his Arts based on his Indigenous cultural identity.
GIGSALAD BOOKING INFO & BIOGRAPHY
Price Range: $750 per hour performance. 50% Deposit required.
Gig Length: 30 - 50 minutes
Languages: English
What to Expect
ORIGINAL SONGS ONLY. Insightful and gifted story teller in song. An Indigenous perspective. With a back ground in Fine Arts, Music, Recording Engineering, Counselling Therapist, Writing, and Indigenous Philosophy to bring you a thought provoking and evocative experience. Great songwriting and easily understood as a word painter. Sometimes deeply personal, sometimes prophetic and political, sometimes tongue in cheek humorous. You will be brought back to the days where songwriters were seen as able to portray the tragic hero, sinner and saint in the webs of their musical expression.
About
Brander started guitar at the age of 18 and very quickly developed to writing and performing his own original songs a year later with a band. His vocal styles give impressions of Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Rodriguez, Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn,Mark Knopfler, Sting, Santana and Bob Marley. His guitar work is blues, jazz, reggae, world music and alternative styles. By the age of 30 he had amassed over 200 songs, recorded privately hundreds of ideas.
1993 he worked and lived with the late Larry Norman (the Gospel Rock innovator) as a Assistant Producer & opening act for Solid Rock records Studio City, California. The 1994 LA earthquake brought him back to Canada. In 2000 he played live with Larry at Creation Fest 2000 West at the gorge amphitheatre in central Washington.
Brander has quietly carved a wonderful body of music and is now eager to share it.
Additional Booking Notes
Require sound system, mics and PA, monitors and power.
Please contact artist directly as per needs for venue Email: [email protected]
Services Offered
Singing Guitarist/Native American Entertainment
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