Jay Gavin  

Jay Gavin

From his early life as the son of a PEI fisherman, growing up surrounded by pickers & singers to his years touring North America in punk & metal bands, Jay Gavin has come full circle and returned to his roots in country, folk & bluegrass. With two albums Spirits 2017 and Boat on a Whale 2019 under his belt, Jay is well known for his natural authenticity, his often-humorous, twangy, foot-stompin' songs featuring traditional instruments and his rollicking, good timin' live shows.Jay has kept busy throughout the pandemic playing local shows and releasing videos for original honkytonk-styled Lost in Austin, Conway & Loretta cover, You’re the Reason our Kids are Ugly and releasing singles - Beautiful Shame, a duet with his cousin, Shyanne Mae Gaudet and the December 2021 release, Some Folks, which shows off his John Prine influence. Next up in 2022 will be the release of a series of singles recorded in 2021 with Jeff Zipp at Hipposonic with the help of some of Vancouver’s top talent including Sam Balson, Kathleen Nisbet, Scott Smith, Eric and Geoff Hicks. First will be a crowd-favorite from recent live performances, Got Myself a Harley. Now Jay’s got an itch in his boot and is ready to hit the road again, and he doesn’t care where. “I never know where the song will take me,” he says, “and that’s the whole attraction.”

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