Jamie Shaler

JAMIE SHALER's career as a singer, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader spans over 30 years. As the leader of groups such as New England new wave rock favorites Angry Young Bees, folk-rockers Lothlorien, the music/comedy/mime troupe Ghost, as well as later trios Jamie Shaler On Vacation and Thunder Monkeys, Jamie has performed in nearly every club, college and prep school in New England. With Angry Young Bees he had the #1 local single on WBCN. His bands have opened for David Johansen, English rockers 999, Robin Trower and Tommy Keene, as well as working regularly with regional favorites like the Neighborhoods, Ric Berlin, Robin Lane, the Stompers, Face to Face, Jon Butcher Axis, Shake the Faith, the Fools and Down Avenue. He has performed on live TV several times and had national airplay for his records on hundreds of college radio stations, sharing the charts with David Bowie and the Clash, as well as getting regular play locally on FNX, WAAF, WCGY and others.

In recent years Jamie has been recording a 25-song CD project at his home studio. The style he is working in now is acoustic music that blends folk, country, blues and rock influences. While primarily playing his own songs he also covers such artists as Guy Clark, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and the Rolling Stones. On this CD he is playing acoustic, classical, slide and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, bass and percussion.

It has been said:
"…Jamie is a singer/songwriter/guitarist to be reckoned with." Metronome
"…a streetwise dramatic vocal style…very passionate…" New England Perfomer
"…a great voice…the best traditional rock and roll guitarist in Boston" The Beat

Check the Music page for a number of Jamie's recordings, both solo and with his assorted bands.

Chris Younken

The life of Chris Younken is all about music. Bitten young by the music bug Chris originally started out on bass guitar, rapidly becoming THE player in his hometown. Of course he started playing guitar soon thereafter. Influenced by Jack Bruce and Jimi Hendrix, Chris knew what he wanted - excellence! Through mutual friends he met Jamie, who had just returned to State College after several years away and they formed the art/folk group Lothlorien, the beginning of many collaborations. In the many years since, Chris' musical interests have led him to many, many performances, becoming a recording studio owner and engineer, a guitar and bass teacher and currently working as an Audio Engineer at WPSU-TV at Penn State University.

Chris currently performs with a reggae band, the Earthtones, who perform regularly all over Pennsylvania and beyond. He's been in more rock, jazz, blues, R&B and folk groups than we can keep track of. The one constant through it all has been people watching and listening and going "Wow, can that guy play!"

Chris self-taught himself standardized recording, editing, mixing and music mastering techniques and has owned his own studio for 27 years, as well as doing remote engineering. At his studio, Sunrise, in State College/Bellefonte PA. Chris has produced and engineered all styles of music, voice-overs, jingles, slide shows and music for video. For many years Chris partnered with Tom "T-Bone" Edmonds, sound engineer for Lenny Kravitz and Todd Rundgren, among others. They shared equipment and projects such as a live Lenny Kravitz CD on Virgin Records Japan, mixed by T-Bone and edited by Chris.

You can listen to "Christmas Chills" for a sample of Chris' engineering skills. Contact him at 814-404-6283 or christopher.younken@verizon.net for your next studio project!

And let's not forget that Chris is also a cellist who majored in Cello Performance at Penn State and studied with Leonard Feldman of the Alard String Quartet.