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I'll keep some of these old pickleball posts up- for historical sake and there are even more that I unpublished but are still in the Google cache.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!

(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. 

Pickleball Party, sing-along to pickleball parodies~!

My whole mission from the get go was to get people singing along together. It always has been. Even when I was in a touring band I would hold the microphone out to the audience to hear them sing. It's my favorite part of being a musician, hearing you. 

Me onstage  as Agnetha in Arrival Canada's tribute to Abba....and the awesome singers who helped....

These last few months my brain has been filling with pickleball songs and images I need to create, but  instead of doing so I've been spending every blipping moment figuring out the Shopify  platform.

It felt like work. So I jumped ship. Well I jumped off the expensive superliner and onto little moterboat. I understand that boat much better and have no need to cross oceans anyhow so that ticket was just too expensive. 
 

The whole reason I started the Shopify is because my previous  ARTist shops were not related solely to me and so when I sent customers to my store they could easily get lost on the site (since it could direct  them to other artists). That's tough when you spend a lot of time catching peoples attention. 

So I thought if I controlled the store, then at least I wouldn't lose people. 
What I didn't anticipate was the enormous cost of involving a platform such as Shopify as well as all the other pieces of the puzzle which  eat up every penny you might make. 

If a shop owner gets lucky and needs a web developers help to deal with expanding, well  you now have to pay what feels like lawyers hourly rates to get things done, and finding someone you trust to do that in a faceless internet world, is not easy. 

So just as I was about to start ramping up advertising I pushed the big red button instead of the green one. 

You see as all this was happening the ARTist platforms began streamlining so that ARTists wouldn't lose their customers so easily, they gave us a shop, not just a spot in their shop. Smart. 

SO, my problem was, I was ahead of the curve and started solving my problem a just a bit too early. It took the larger platforms a bit of time to reach my needs. 

And I realized, since  they do now, just as I was getting more and more bills to my store, my old platform was offering to do it, right. SO I thought, why am I not making use of it? And so I dove into this place ARTIST SHOP



The result is I have time to do more of the things I love, including taking my Pickleball Parody songs out on the road. This Christmas season for any pickleball event I went to I brought my little guitar and a handful of parody lyric sheets. (Taken from my Pickleball Sing - Along book). and PS I realize I need to make a Sing Along book 2 because I have a whole paddle bag full of NEW tunes that are not in book one, so stand by for those..... but I digress....... on with the show.....

A few of these people had seen my videos but not even close to all of them....so this was the first time that MOST of these people had seen or heard any  of my songs. But with my handy lyric sheets, it was easy to get them singing.........so easy.........

 

How much fun will this be for any pickleball event?  Pickleball dinner, tournament, festival or getaway? 

I'm your Pickleball Parody girl, let me know if you would like to know how I can help you do this! :) 

Rachael! 

Santa Baby, Pickleball Carol - Featuring Lee Whitwell and Rachael Chatoor

 Just sharing a little holiday ditty we cooked up!  

Merry Christmas from PickleTEL records! 

Merry Christmas to all my wonderful Pickleball ARTwear  supporters!! (here are just some of your awesome photos, you'll find the rest on facebook)  I LOVE you!! 

Am I wearing my top backwards? Not on purpose I'm not.....

So my new clothes have arrived ( a couple of my samples, anyhow ) and I am more in love with them than I hoped I would be. I immediately set to work on trying them on and decided to film the process and intro the clothes with whatever film I captured. See the video below to get a glimpse of my new goodies. 

If it seems like I'm delighted with the quality of the items I am, I am  so happy the colors in real life look as beautiful as  the colors in my imagination and on-screen, plus the make and fit are reliably supeior to the ones I could design on before.  These are all I was hoping for and I'm so excited.

This video I must admit I laughed at and watched a few times. It was because it made me laugh that I even kept my ass in there as I was pulling  my pants up over it. But it looked so ridiculous to me and I tried so hard to recover and the dragonfly looked so cool I decided to keep it in. 

And guess what. 

The dragonfly goes on the front. 

How 

did 

If it seems like I'm delighted with the quality of the items I am, I am  so happy the colors in real life look as beautiful as  the colors in my imagination and on-screen, plus the make and fit are reliably supeior to the ones I could design on before.  These are all I was hoping for and I'm so excited.

This video I must admit I laughed at and watched a few times. It was because it made me laugh that I even kept my ass in there as I was pulling  my pants up over it. But it looked so ridiculous to me and I tried so hard to recover and the dragonfly looked so cool I decided to keep it in. 

And guess what. 

The dragonfly goes on the front. 

How 

did 

I

miss

that?



Honestly until a friend of mine asked me which way to wear it?  I had NO idea I was wearing it backwards. 

What an introduction. I've decided it's perfect and I'm keeping it in. 
If anything it will give people something to scratch their heads over. Giggle.

Anyhow, I don't expect people to wear all this stuff together by the way.  My items are not meant to be worn "party on the top and party on the bottom" always, unless you love literally being ALOT. Then by all means have at er.

Personally I usually wear a top OR a bottom and  then I pair them with a matching solid from one of my other favorite brands.  The pants I am wearing in this video are Lululemon  




The fit is true (I'm a large in most brands. A medium in generous brands and XL in fancy shit)  I'm wearing large for everything. 

Have fun and enjoy the new stuff, I sure am! xo