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Hometown: Boston, MA
Website: chrispahud.com
Sounds Like: influenced by everyone in "The Last Waltz", Garnet Rogers, Stan Rogers, Fred Neil, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Russell, and David Olney.
Genre: Folk
Chris Pahud grew up in Needham, MA, in a family of classical musicians. While his brother abandoned the oboe to become a Berklee trained pianist, Chris fell in love with the guitar. By the time he was 15 he was playing in a surf band, and two years later was a part of the locally popular folk quartet The Town Dump. Their repertoire drew heavily from the songs of Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian & Sylvia and the Youngbloods, some of which he continues to perform today. After taking time to raise a family and pursue a career as a Media Specialist at UMass Boston, by the 1990’s he hit the coffeehouse circuit with his warm bass/baritone voice and acoustic guitar. Though he has written songs, and collaborated with well known Boston poet Bill Thibodeau, Chris sees himself as more interpreter than songwriter, helping to maintain the legacy of folks like Fred Neil and Stan Rogers. As far as contemporary writers, he tends to be drawn to the narrative works of people like Tom Russell, David Olney and Garnet Rogers. A familiar and welcome presence at coffeehouses, clubs and festivals across New England, in 2018 Chris was invited to perform at festivals in Switzerland.
“Chris Pahud sings with all his heart, and his heart is huge. His voice and songs come from such a beautiful place, I smile every time I hear him sing... and witness him doing what comes so natural to him... his gifts make this world a better place.”
Mary Gauthier - "In The Black" recording artist
“Chris Pahud sings with all his heart, and his heart is huge. His voice and songs come from such a beautiful place, I smile every time I hear him sing... and witness him doing what comes so natural to him... his gifts make this world a better place.”
Mary Gauthier - In The Black recording artist
"It is nice to hear Pahud’s voice right out front on this CD, despite including instrumentation from a half-dozen other musicians. In fact, it was Pahud’s choice of performers to join him and a tasteful production that serve to enhance the songs and his own voice."
Steve Ide - Patriot Ledger
“I think I can speak for the rest of the band when I say, we'd follow you anywhere, man - just out of morbid curiosity!”
Hatrack Gallagher, Harmonica Player Extraordinaire - at the Homegrown Coffeehouse, April, 2008
“With a rich bass/baritone voice, it was lucky for us that Chris fell in love early on with the songs of one of the singers his voice most resembles: Stan Rogers. He also turns his powerful voice to traditional sea chanteys on one end of the scale and contemporary western songs on the other.”
Dave Palmater - Folktracks and WUMB 91.9 FM, Boston MA
"...I decided to try playing out. I didn’t know if I had what it took, but I figured I’d take a crack at it, so I wouldn’t wake up one day years later wondering what-if."
From an interview with Jay N. Miller - Patriot Ledger
