Summer singing and strumming on the patios of Vancouver BC

 I'm still a musician and so like everyone else who has to work I must still go sing and strum to pay for my pickleball addiction.
So I wanted to circle back to music here on my diary blog now that I have moved my pickleball artwear blog world to it's own home at Pickleball ARTwear.com Pickleball ARTwear.com 

I'll keep some of these old pickleball posts up- for historical sake and there are even more that I unpublished but are still in the Google cache.  And do scroll past them if you are looking for music history. 

I've been on an art binge lately so new music hasn't been flowing as much. With a backlog of things on my creative to do list music gets a back seat sadly. 

The good thing about my job is that it forces me to keep my chops going whether I practiced a lot or not, three hours of work means 2 hours and 45 minutes of playing. ( yes I've started taking 15 minute breaks at venues, and anywhere I have to play for more than 3 hours I use their allotted break schedule).

I have some new venues to play this year and have been promising to put a schedule up so today I'm doing it. 




June 6.....    Westin Bayshore H2 Lounge 5:30-8:30

JuJune 9......    Ladner Village Farmers Marketer Village Farmers Market    

10:30-3:00ne 14 ....  Shaugnessy Golf Club (Private Club)  6-9 

June 16....Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. (Private Club)   6-9

July 5........Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (Private Club)  6-9

July 6 ........Musical Marpole (Marpole Business Association Music series) 1-4pm

July 7  ......Lulu Island Winery ........2:30-4:30 (need tickets and reservations)

July 11 and 13........Westin Bayshore H2 Lounge  5:30-8:30

July 12 .......Lulu Island Winery Happy Hour 5-7
July 13         Westin Bayshore H2 Lounge 5:30-8:30

Aug 4........ Lulu Island Winery  .......2:30-4:30 (need tickets and reservations)
Aug  9 .......Shaugnessy Golf Club (Private Club)

Aug 10.......Musical Marpole  (Marpole Business Association Music series) 1-4pm

Aug 11.......Concert in the Park.....  City of Delta at Sungod (front park)    2-3pm  

Aug 16.......Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (Private Club)

Aug 25..... Ladner Village Farmers Market   10:30- 3:00

Sept 1 .....Lulu Island Winery.......2:30-4:30  (need tickets and RSVP)

Sept 8..... Ladner Village Farmers Market   10:30- 3:00
Sept 15    Barnside Harvest Festival   1:00-1:30   Heritage Pavillion. 

Don't forget I have a SONG REQUEST list that you can use to boss me around onstage if you see me playing! 

Pink pickleball Ribbon by Pickleball ARTwear..............

 I've had a pink ribbon for pickleball in my mind since forever but there was so much else to do first. I've added the artwork clip with my song Standing and you can find that on Itunes or my Reverbnation

You can find the design on all sorts of nifty item on my artist portals like this one HERE, Pickleball Artwear by Rachael Chatoor dot com, facebook, or contact me to custom create some team or tournament wear for you!

P is for Pickles (the first dog of Pickleball). The ABC's of Pickleball ARTwear by Rachael Chatoor

Years of pickleball art making has resulted in enough images to create this pickleball alphabet art book for all ages! Special thanks  to the final inspiration for the book, cover dog Pickles the actual first dog of pickleball! Because the truth is the truth and  it's not "FUN" to alter history just so you can sell it, it's something else entirely. 


 😎👋 #pickleballartwear #picklesthedog #picklespickleball #pickleballchildrensbook #pickleballgiftidea #pickleballhistory #truthinadvertising  #amazonfinds #pickleballart

Find it HERE

Pickleball Again, a pickleball parody sung to the tune of Margaritaville, by Jimmy Buffett!

Pickleball Again, a pickleball parody sung to the tune of Margaritaville, by Jimmy Buffett! Sing Along to this one the words are there you know the tune!

A fitting song for the unveiling of my “pickleball margarita” artwork (and pickles the dog sitting in a margarita) both seen in the video alongside the mermaid plus some vacation clips taken while on a Pickleball Getaway (and also some local clips). Thanks to all the friends and PROs who let me take video clips and photos to share randomly as I need them .

Pickleball ARTwear by Rachael Chatoor | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more (threadless.com)
 

To all the Points I've lost before!

 

This PicKleTEL parody  has been rolling around in my brain for a long time 

and it was finally time to put a little reel together for it!  

Thanks to Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson of course for the fantastic inspiration song for this parody, 

(To all the girls I've loved before). 

(a dark side of pickleball, this is not about "pickleball")

 

I've tried to help this company understand that simply calling something "historical" doesn't make it so. 

They either don't like what I have to say, or just don't care because my information seems to be getting deleted.

I took a screenshot this time because I wanted proof that the information I was sharing was fair and factual. 

I went to check this morning and as predicted I guess they didn't like my answer because my helpful post was gone. 

It can also be found on Washington State Legislature’s website. Joel M Pritchard An Oral History, is a 444-page document compiled by former Sec of State Ralph Munro and has a complete profile on pickleball’s history.

In Appendix C, page 402, The Genesis of Pickle-Ball, Joel Pritchard talks to interviewer Anne Kilgannon about the sport’s name. https://app.leg.wa.gov/oralhi.../pritchard/pritchardfull.pdf

So in order to get the correct history out there I was inspired to make my own art, based on the actual dog Pickles who is shown in the Bainbridge museum and also in books. (my tongue is as red as that telling text is from biting it, my fingers aching at the keys for all the words I want to add.....but I digress)

I've put this image in all three of my artist portals!

Pickles, the pickleball dog was named after pickleball. by Pickleball ARTwear Women's T-Shirt | Pickleball ARTwear by Rachael Chatoor (threadless.com)

T-Shirts by Pickleball ARTwear by Rachael Chatoor | TeePublic

Pickles the dog in a Margarita, by Pickleball ARTwear Art by Rachael Chatoor | Society6

PicKleTEL parodies volume 2 ~ by Rachael Chatoor of Pickelball ARTwear

 

                                               Hope you have fun with this!! :) Cheers, Rachael.