Brian Thomas has a gift. Not only is he a fantastic musician, but he has recaptured a tradition of using music as a vehicle for storytelling. His songs can be peaceful, meldoic, and full of imagry.

Thomas blends a variety of sounds together in his music. From finger-style guitar, hammered dulcimer, piano, recorders and vocals, his sound is refreshing and original.

Although he hand no formal music training, he began to play guitar at the ge of 17. Since then, he has learned to play more than ten other instruments and has written almost 100 original songs. His latest CD, Prairie Rain, conveyes stories through the sounds of all of these instruments. Of his work, Thomas says, "One of the greatest challenges as a musician is to be able to convey emotions and pictures in music, and doing that with instrumental songs is even more difficult. How do you make a piano sound like a baby waking up, or a guitar sound like a hawk flying, or a dulcimer sound like a rainstorm? That's what I was trying to achieve in this project."

He has done well.


Hometown: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Website: Brian Thomas
Download MP3: Prairie Rain
Buy CD: Prairie Rain

Similar Artists: Brian Thomas, Dochas, Loreena McKennitt, Rich Mullins, Simon and Garfunkel, Will Millar

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Posted by Karen J. Brady, Sunday, July 15, 2007.
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