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  • June 2009 - I've received a lot of requests for the lyrics to my "Make A Wish" song from the Jon & Kate Plus 8 show, so here they are as a pdf file.

  • May 2009 - My song "Make A Wish" was played during a very emotional birthday photo montage at the end of the Season 5 Premiere of Jon & Kate Plus 8, the hit reality show on TLC. The show was watched by 9.8 million viewers and it was truly an honour & privilege to have my song heard by so many people at once! "Make A Wish" is also newly released as a download-only MP3 single http://www.chrisrosser.com/buycds.htm

  • January 2009 - Lynn & I wrote a public service announcement song for the Triangle Area Highway Patrol called "Leave Room For Trucks." It'll probably NOT be included on any upcoming CDs :)

  • October 2008 - Free Planet Radio releases our new CD The Unraveling. It's available here: http://www.freeplanetradio.com/sounds.html

  • October 2008- I played some shows in Mexico as the keyboardist for the Omar Faruk Tekbilek Ensemble. We played at the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, the biggest music festival in Mexico in front of 9000 people and a film crew. My rented keyboard only malfunctioned/exploded once during the show...

  • March 2008 - Free Planet Radio accompanied world-renown poet Robert Bly during a poetry reading at Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville NC

  • Winter 2008 - My song "Anna Has A Secret" is featured in Sing Out! Magazine. It is included on the sampler CD and the lyrics & sheet music are printed in the magazine. http://www.singout.org/514toc.html

  • January 2008 - I produced and recorded Ashley Chambliss' "My Universe" song which was featured on ABC's One Live To Live. http://www.myspace.com/ashleychambliss

  • December 2007 - composed and performed some music for the independent film, Anywhere USA, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2008. http://anywhereusathemovie.com/

  • September 2007 - My Archaeology song is the feature of The Lefsetz Letter, a very popular music industry blog. You can read it here: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/09/18/archaeology/

  • September 2007 - Free Planet Radio was selected to perform an official showcase at the Southern Arts Performing Arts Exchange in Louisville, KY.

  • August 2006 - The new CD "Hidden Everywhere" is now available at shows and online at CD Baby.

  • June 2006 - The new solo CD "Hidden Everywhere" is finally completed and off to be duplicated. Look for its official birth announcement soon!

  • Spring 2006 - I've been been busy producing and engineering in the studio with David LaMotte, Steve Simpson, Marina Raye, Jackie Moseley, Shawn Gallaway, Martha Birt, David Stevenson, Ken Laderoute, Connie Regan-Blake, Vince Junior, Andy Offutt Irwin, Don Porterfield for the Evening Star radio show and more. Look for their new projects to be released soon.

  • October 2005 - Hollow Reed Studio has moved to a new (much nicer!) location and is busy working on many new projects. See the picture at the studio page.

  • March 2005 - I have begun touring as a keyboardist with the ensemble of master Turkish Sufi musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek. I've been a fan of his music for a long time and it is truly an honour to play music with him. His website is www.omarfaruktekbilek.com .

  • February 8, 2005 - Jaron Lev Rosser was born at Duke Medical Center. He has some heart trouble, but after three surgeries he is doing great!

  • January 10-17 - Free Planet Radio's song Garden of the Beloved is featured on National Public Radio's "All Songs Considered". See www.npr.org

  • December 2004 - I had five songs featured in the online literary journal The Nantahala Review. See www.nantahalareview.org/issue2-2/index.html

  • June 2004 - The new Free Planet Radio CD New Bedouin Dance is released. This is the new instrumental album by the trio of Chris, Eliot Wadopian & River Guerguerian. For more info, see www.freeplanetradio.com .

  • October 2003 - I've been awarded a NC Arts Council Songwriter Fellowship Award to help fund my current CD projects. Yeah! More details about the fellowship can be found on www.ncarts.org .

  • May 2003 - I've been busy touring and producing albums (see Studio ) over the last year, and I'm finally going back into the studio myself. In addition to a new CD of songs, I'm also working on an album of instrumentals with amazing Asheville musicians, River Guerguerian and Eliot Wadopian. Look for both around the early part of next year!

  • February 1, 2002 - Aram Morgan Rosser is born to a proud mama and papa - ain't he cute!

  • Dec. 2000 - The latest release The Holy Fool (ISG Records) is officially released to folk/americana/AAA radio stations nationally.

  • Aug.18, 2000 - I won the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival 2000 troubadour contest! Not only did I win a VERY nice Hayes guitar, but I will be performing a full set on the main stage for the 2001 festival (August 17-19). For more information about the festival or the contest, click on www.bluegrass.com .

  • June 2000 - The Holy Fool, Chris' follow up to his successful debut recording Archaeology is released locally with a full band show at The Grey Eagle Music Hall in Asheville, NC.

 


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