Window On The West Performers

DOUG WAITE

Strumming and Writing
Doug started playing guitar at 15 years old – the year he worked as a summer camp counselor in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains – and began writing songs soon after that. He first heard surf music the following year in his high school guitar club, where his language arts teacher, Mr. Leopard, showed him the classic song Pipeline, and explained the term 'reverb'. Doug still sings Land-Locked Surfer, one of his first original surf songs lamenting the life of a surfer living here in southern Alberta.

Have Guitar - Will Travel
Doug has written songs and played music in cafes and on beaches from Australia to Spain, and everywhere he’s been, his songs and his guitar have opened doors and helped him travel more comfortably. Doug writes for and plays in two bands these days – The Ramblin’ Ambassadors performed in Spain at the Crossroads music festival in 2008, and The Bownesians travel throughout Calgary to perform at parks and outdoor pools every summer.

Doug the Producer
The Bownesians (I Heart Bowness) - includes Doug's first place winning songs from the Calgary Folk Festival songwriting contests of 2008 (He's From Bowness) and 2009 (How Allen Saved the Radio Station).

The Lost Surf Tapes - a mock-umentary cd featuring the fictitious instrumental surf band, The Fabulous Stingrays, who mysteriously disappeared in 1961!

Circle ‘Round the Zero - children’s songs and singing games featuring recorders and animal sounds.

Make Some Change - songs written and recorded during Doug's busking tour of Europe and featuring gypsy jazz guitarist Robin Nolan and his Quartet

The Eclectic Minstrel - soundtrack music for community television, accompaniment for modern dance performances and ambience to beatnik poetry readings.

On Air
Doug's songs have been played on both CBC and CKUA, as well as university and college radio all across Canada including the mighty CJSW 90.9 FM University of Calgary Radio.

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