It was over 60 years ago that Chris initially picked up a guitar and taught himself to play. He was brought up on 60s rock ‘n’ roll Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell,  Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and first heard the Beatles in 1964 while he was standing on a ladder painting the house as a young kid. Now in his 70’s he has recently completed his fourth album called “A dialogue with love”.

One of the reasons for this album was to share mystery of the unique power of love within all our lives, who we love, how we love and why we love and still finding it such a mystery for all of us to unravel!! Chris, a teacher, songwriter, writer and published author who, having spent almost 50 years as an educator working throughout Australia and overseas –  20 of those years living and working in remote aboriginal communities, inviting people, young children and adults of all ages to tell their story through Music. In that 20 year period, over 1200 original songs were written by children from the age of three through to adults in their 80’s. Songs illustrated and desktop published into stories with more than 200 books given back to communities all over Australia and overseas.

Chris, a former AFL/VFL footballer in the 60s and International cricketer, father of three adult children and grandfather of five. and his band “The Collective” is simply that ! Calling upon many brilliant musicians that include his talented family members to join with him. 4 albums later –  “Observations from the asylum of life”“ Sometimes I Wonder Where I Am” “Closer To Nothing” and finally “A dialogue with love” have come about through simply observing how we love through the world around him. Chris will be launching “ A dialogue with love” at MEMO on Thursday the 11th of September.