Headwater (band)


Headwater is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They have played as featured acts in festivals such as the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival in 2008 and Merritt Mountain Music Festival in 2007.

History

Headwater was formed in 2001 by guitarist and percussionist Jonas Shandel and mandolinist/guitarist Matt Bryant, who had played together in a punk band in high school. The duo began performing in the Vancouver area, including on ferries, and developed into a band with four regular members and one of several drummers.
Their debut studio album in 2006, My Old Friend, sold four thousand copies in B.C. in its first sixteen months. Their follow-up album, Lay You Down, was released in 2008 on their own label, Nowhere Town Records; and invited to showcase at the 2008 WCMA with label mates tour collaborator DAMANTA. Songs from both albums are in regular rotation nationally on the CBC. The band performed at the Under the Volcano Festival in Vancouver.
By 2012, the band members were Shandel, Bryant, pedal steel player Tim Tweedle, and Pat Metzgar on upright bass. In April that year Headwater released a new single, "Your Love" from their third studio record, PUSH. A limited run of hand numbered vinyl will be sold to promote the new EP, recorded by Marc L'Esperance and Bill Buckingham in Vancouver, B.C.
Headwater was recently included in the 2012 Peak Performance Project.

Members

Current