International Yukon artist Gordie Tentrees is coming for your town next. This multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer is fully armed with his dynamic solo show or gutsy roots driven band Hill Country News, featuring Ken Hermanson (guitar, banjo, lapsteel), Aiden Tentrees (upright bass,) and Patrick Hamilton (drums), smothered with traditional Yukon roots music resonating tornado yelps of RL Burnside, The Sadies and Greg Brown. He has released 4 albums, the most recent "Naked in Scandinavia" is a live solo concert recorded in Helsinki, Finland featuring a collection of story-driven songs, edgy foot-stompers and heart-worn odes that can only be cultivated by a road warrior.
His 3rd album " Mercy or Sin" produced by Juno Winner Bob Hamilton, was nominated for a 2010 Western Canadian Music Award for 'Roots Solo Album of the Year". The title track was also a finalist out of 15 000 entries in the 2010 International Songwriting Competition. Judges included Tom Waits, Loretta Lynn and Jerry Lee Lewis. He  performed at the 2010 Olympics  in Vancouver for the New Songs New Voices concert selected as the best of Canada’s songwriters to perform during the games. He was also selected by CBC Radio's  2009 Song Quest  as one of Canada’s top songwriters and hosted the prestigous SOCAN songwriters circle at the 2009 WCMA's.
He has toured with Fred Eaglesmith, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Ray Wylie Hubbard.  He will be releasing his 5th album "North Country Heart" in early 2012 with tours in Canada, US, Europe, UK and Scandinavia.

This former school teacher, breakdancer, and golden gloves boxer has toured from Newfoundland to Finland to Oklahoma and back again averaging 200 concerts a year.

"Tentrees is so relaxed and unpretentious it's impossible to not get dragged into his world" NO DEPRESSION

" In the rough cut vein of Fred Eaglesmith or Kelly Joe Phelps, Tentrees is gifted" GLOBE & MAIL

"He has an intense ability to capture the human condition with writing and performing that oozes truthiness" AMERICANA MUSIC TIMES

"The concert kicked off with a strong set by Gordie Tentrees, who has been opening for the band (Fred Eaglesmith) on recent dates, and it is apparent to this listener that Tentrees has been working hard in the couple of years since he opened the same venue for Kelly Joe Phelps. His ease and ability on resophonic slide guitar and rack mount harmonica suggest some serious time spent honing his craft; and the inclusion of an electrified stomp board lends authority to his steady tapping left foot. Good tunes with strong vocals and deft fingerpicking make for an enjoyable presentation and the addition of Eaglesmith's sidemen, Mattie Simpson on electric guitar and Luke Stackhouse on string bass, to finish off Tentrees portion of the show was an added treat. Tentrees is a talent on the move, and moving in good company"
Peterborough Examiner