Fletcher School to Host Singer-Songwriter Chad Hollister
Pacific Records recording artist Chad Hollister will perform his unique style of big band rock music during a show at the Fletcher Elementary School on March 13th at 2:15 PM. The performance is free and the Fletcher community is invited to attend.
Hollister is a Worcester, Vermont-based artist who has been making music and touring the country for more than 20 years. He has opened shows for the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Tom Petty. Additionally, he has shared the stage with every member of the band PHISH, as well as Billy Gibbons, guitarist and lead vocalist for the rock band ZZ Top, and Merl Saunders, former keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. His appearances with Warren Haynes, long-time guitarist for The Allman Brothers Band and founding member of the jam band Gov’t Mule, as well as time spent on stage with Blues Traveller, also top Hollister’s resume.
Spending the entire day at the Fletcher School, Hollister will share his music in every classroom individually prior to his school-wide performance that afternoon. During his time in classrooms, in addition to performing some of his own songs, Hollister will work with students to compose a school song to be performed that afternoon. The song will be themed on the school’s behavior expectations to be respectful, responsible, safe and caring, as well as the school mascot, the falcon.
Hollister has four previous studio album releases, with his fifth, Stop the World, due to hit the airwaves on April 1st. For his latest project, Hollister joined the roster of artists at the DanDiego, California-based Pacific Records, an independent record label focusing on marketing, production and distribution. Hollister will leave to go on tour simultaneously with the release of his new album.
Of his music, Hollister says, “I like to really say something and think about being kind, taking care of Mother Earth, being good to people and loving themselves. If a piece of my music can inspire someone, it’s doing something right on planet Earth.”
Billboard Magazine called Hollister, who often performs with a 10-piece band, “a no frills kind of rocker, cast from the same mold as such classic American artists as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and John Mellencamp.”
Hollister’s appearance in Fletcher is sponsored in part by Friends of Fletcher Elementary, the school’s parent group.
Check out Chad’s music here: