.Musician, vocalist, prolific song writer; Larry Vannatta has been writing and recording professional songs, for the past twenty five years. His smooth vocal talents are clear, and distinctly his own. Larry has just recently received the “Song Writer of the Year” award by the European Country Music Association in 2011, and is a two time Canadian Juno nominee for Country Group of the Year.
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"Vannatta’s live performances are salt of the earth, down home excellent entertainment."
Festival Coordinator, Camron Noyes for Alberta North and South Country fairs.
“Vannatta has been performing at our Calgary Stampede events for the past three years, at Shaw GMC, Sunridge Nissan, and CMP Motors. His professionalism and live performance is second to none, and he always has a great band behind him. It really has shown in our attendance with each year more and more people are coming out to our events.” World and Professional Chuck wagon Driver; Jason Glass
Larry comes from a musical back ground that he gives full credit to his mom. “When I started my first band Straight Clean & Simple, the best musician I could find was my mom, Marina who ended up playing piano in my band for 18 years. Not too many mother, son bands that I can recall”. Since those early beginnings Larry has taken those strong family values, experience and added them among his musical friends. He has gained many friendships with fellow musician, peers and artists over the years and employs these musical friends in his band. “I am really lucky to have such great musicians in my group and the best part is we are all family and friends”.
This September Larry will be finishing up his new album in the studios. Tracks have already been pre-recorded in Nashville and will be completed here in Canada. “I am so excited how well these tracks sound, the songs came off absolutely wonderful. I can hardly wait to get the finished product out there to my fans and radio land”. Larry has released three pre-released song off his new and up and coming album, across Europe on Hillcrest. “Country Junkie” was the first radio single and it stayed on the ECMA Charts for 18 weeks and was number one for four weeks in a row. The second song “Paradise” stayed on the ECMA charts for 17 weeks and hit number three, as well charted in the top ten on the Deutschland Country Mag Charts. This album will have it all, slick country two stepping Nashville sounds, a touch of country bluegrass, folk Americana style, along with two cover tunes that will knock your socks off. Stay tuned for new updates.
In June of 2011 Larry was nominated for four awards by the European Country Music Association, for “Artist of the Year”, “Album of the Year” (Red Neck Thoroughbred), “Group of the Year”, and “Song Writer of the Year”. Among the nominees were well know artists like Brad Paisley, George Strait, Reba McIntyre to name a few. Larry was very excited to be selected as the winner of the “Song Writer of the Year Award”, which shows and exhibits his strong song writing talents and abilities.
This coming year will be a very exciting time for Larry, with events already pre-booked, a new album, hot radio singles to be released around the world, and a great group backing him up.
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