MONSTER REVIEW: Beatles- and Bob Dylan-influenced folk-rocker crafts engaging album.

Tapping into his inner guitar hero and enlisting his band's penchant for crisp beats and soulful melodies, local songwriter Chris Gheran effortlessly rolls through some 13 tobacco-stained ballads and Beatles-inspired shack-shakers on his debut release, Monster.

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Framed by two equally earnest versions of the singer-songwriter's darling “Woodgrain,” Monster is an engaging and immediate album that somehow manages to reinvent itself with every deliberately crafted track.

Christine Leonard -- FFWD Weekly October 2008

Biography

Chris Gheran

lead singer/songwriter, acoustic guitar, keyboard

Chris Gheran performed at the 2010 Calgary Folk Music Festival! New to the stage was "Calgary", the title track on his new album to be released on March 25 at the Ironwood Stage & Grill in Calgary.

In August, JackFM and Chris's incredible fans voted Chris best busker in Calgary and a prize of $5000.

Earlier this year, Chris opened for the Wailin' Jennys in Knox United Church.

Read Christine Leonard's review of Chris's latest album Coup d'etat in BeatRoute.

Chris opened for Jonathan Richman with a phenomenal solo set in concert at the Martha Cohen Theatre in the Calgary Centre for the Performing Arts as part of Sled Island 2008.

Energy 101.5 interviewed Chris as did both CJSW and X92.9 with live performances. The band was highlighted in Bands to Watch. Chris won a singer/songwriter contest at Shotz Bar & Grill, and he and his band were semi-finalists in both the FUEL 90.3 rock Star 2008 and Blind Beggar Big Rock/X92 Original Music Showcase. Chris performed in Revelstoke and was a finalist at Rockanagan in Kelowna.

Complimentary reviews have been published by The Calgary Herald, Swerve, FFWD, BeatRoute, The Gauntlet, and the SAIT Weal.