Rupert Wates

His music is an eclectic mix of acoustic, melodic art/folk, with flavors of jazz, vaudeville and cabaret. Rupert Wates averages 120 live shows every year, in front of audiences totaling more than 3,500, in acoustic venues in every state in America, in Canada, and in Europe. He prefers smaller listening rooms where the audience is up close and the emphasis is on the music. A seemingly small detail, but one that has helped maintain Wates’ authenticity throughout the years and only reaffirmed as audiences everywhere respond to his unique brand of melodic art/folk music — haunting songs that ring true.