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Artist
Graeme James
12+ albums
folknew zealandicsofar sounds
about
Graeme James is a multi-instrumentalist from New Zealand. He started out playing violin as a 7 year old and from a young age wanted to be a classical concert violinist. He pursued this goal throughout high school as well as branching out into folk and celtic music, playing fiddle and singing in his family’s folk band that played local festivals and events. After years of playing in local and national youth orchestras he gave up the dream of being a professional musician due to shoulder problems and left secondary school to study to be a Primary School Teacher. It was while he was at university in Palmerston North that he put down the violin and started learning other instruments, the most significant of which being the acoustic guitar which enabled him to start writing and playing his own songs. However, it wasn’t until he bought a loop pedal in 2010 that everything started to come together. In desperate need of some cash to repair his car while on a New Years holiday in 2012, Graeme hit the streets of Gisborne for his first ever loop pedal busking session and the response from the public was so positive he was back on the road in two days. Over the course of 2012 he upped the ante- and started driving from Palmerston North to Wellington for late night busking sessions on Cuba St. Eventually he relocated permanently to Wellington and started touring New Zealand busking and sleeping in his car ‘The Hotel Corona’. A major breakthrough came that summer in Queenstown as h
