Glenn Chatten

A veteran guitarist (with a harmonica always close at hand), mastering his custom built Larivee and Breedlove acoustic guitars like sculpturing tools, Glenn carves deep into his soulful life’s journey to reflect, create and perform eclectic original music that blurs boundaries between Jazz, Blues, Folk, Rock, and Celtic styles. Glenn is releasing a new CD, “Where You Need To Be”, highlighting his more recent works since moving to Vancouver.
Engineered by Juno nominated, Sheldon Zaharko; Recorded and Mastered at The Factory Studio in Vancouver; Glenn was fortunate to have some great musicians sharing the tracks with him on many of his songs. Juno award winner, Steve Dawson performed acoustic and electric slide guitar. Jesse Zubot, another Juno recipient, played fiddle. Trumpeter, Terry Townson and Saxophonist, Steve Hilliam were the horn section on the song, “For The Sake of Oil”. Also, Geoff Hicks on drums, and Rob Becker on bass rounded off the solid bed tracks for this new CD.

Official Bio

At the age of thirteen, Glenn Chatten professed he had only three ambitions in his life play guitar, write songs and perform his music to whom ever would listen.
Having won a Nashville Song writing competition in 1976, and after attending the University of Waterloo and taking post-graduate studies at McMaster University, Glenn toured both the US Mid West and Canada as a folk singer.

Influenced by the music of Bruce Cockburn, Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell, Glenn performed at many Folk Festivals in the late 1980’s, including the Mariposa Folk Festival, (Toronto and Owen Sound), Sounds of Summer Festival (Waterloo) and the Festival of Friends (Hamilton) where he shared the Festival’s songwriting circle stage with many of the country’s best folk artists including Bruce Cockburn.

While on tour, he opened up several times for Murray McLaughlin, Jane Siberry, Scott Merritt, and the popular band, Glass Tiger.
He recorded his first album, Running Away From Life Again, in 1985.

He also performed several times on television for the entertainment section of the Global Noon Hour News hosted by the late Bob Macadorey.

In 1987, Glenn toured with Celtic musician and Hammered Dulcimer player, Paul Haslem, joining him on his first recording, Step Out of Time.

During the 1990’s, Glenn owned a contracting business and helped raise three wonderful children. In 2006, Glenn sold his business and moved to Vancouver to focus on his music as he continues to perform his original, socially relevant songs.

Glenn’s energy and contagious humour (sometimes with a hint of rural Ontario where he was raised) links him quickly to diverse audiences of all ages; his ability to connect with and to inspire those of different social groups and musical tastes—from aspiring youth, both artists and business persons in the community, to diverse folks including the marginalized—is uncanny.

People who meet Glenn feel like they have instantly met a friend.

With over thirty years of performing experience, Glenn is equally comfortable relating to those in a coffee house café; in an intimate house-concert setting; or on a large festival concert stage in the same folksy manner that allows his songs to reach each individual listener.