Chance Gardner

Chance Gardner is a singer-songwriter in Folk/Americana and Blues and performing solo or with the Chance Gardner Band.  Chance's first gig was a showcase for Georgia's Capricorn Records on acoustic guitar.Chance Gardner has been presented with 5 Hawaii Music Awards in Blues, Rock and Folk (Americana) categories as "Best Album of the Year"(People's Choice Awards from internet voting worldwide). Also NA HOKU HANOHANO awards nominee. Chance Gardner is also a singer-songwriter on acoustic fingerstyle guitar and dobro playing original Blues, Americana.

Born in Cuba and raised in the great American South, Chance cut his teeth on Southern blues, good old rock and roll and country.  Chance learned the blues from legendary Honeyboy Edwards, 'Earring' George Mayweather (JB Hutto's band) and his brother Silas Hubbard, Jr.   Bluesman Chance sings and plays Rockin' Blues standards and originals in a band that can melt the coldest heart with blues music cooked on a grill with rocket fuel. Original Rockin' Blues songs have been described as "John Lee Hooker on steroids". Chance and the band perform their own versions of blues standards written by John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley, Big Joe Williams, Jimi Hendrix... Chance Gardner's voice has been described as "gravel in a silk bag" and on guitar "it sounds like three guitars!". BTW Chance is a consummate entertainer and showman but he will only play guitar with his teeth when he feels like it.