Love playing colleges and parties, and coffee shops are my home.

I've been writing music for 5 years now, and have spent the past year promoting my first EP, "static." I started out singing along to Elvis when I was 8, and played piano for a while. When I was about to graduate from high school, my dad bought me a left-handed guitar, and I started writing songs a couple months later. I moved to California for school, and I've been playing shows around the Bay Area ever since, writing as I go. Now that school's done, it's been all music, all the time. Finally.

Influences are Paul Simon, James Taylor, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, David Gray, Nick Drake, Dave Matthews, Ani Difranco, Nickel Creek, Ben Folds, Ryan Adams
My sound is similar to Jason Mraz, Ben Lee, Damien Rice and, I'd like to think, James Taylor.

Up in the hills looking out over the pacific or the bay.

Gibson guitar, Goldtone banjo, handdrums, Piano (when I can find one)

www.chrisayer.net
www.myspace.com/chrisayer