Jesse Rivest

Jesse Rivest
Born	1977 Ontario, Canada
Origin	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Genres	acoustic blues, alt-country, indie folk, roots
Occupation(s)	singer-songwriter, guitarist
Instruments	vocals, guitar
Labels	www.jesserivest.com (independent)
Website	www.jesserivest.com

Jesse Rivest is a Canadian singer-songwriter currently residing in New Zealand (2008). His main instruments are voice and guitar. He has toured British Columbia, as well as Australia and New Zealand as a solo performer.

In 2005, Jesse Rivest was accepted as a "Best Newcomer Finalist" in the Calgary Folk Music Festival Songwriting Contest for his song Deadbeat Blues. After independently releasing Seventeen Oh-Two Oh-Six in 2006, and after a late-summer tour of British Columbia, he moved to Wellington, New Zealand.

In 2007, after touring Australia, he made (unscheduled) appearances at the New Zealand Fringe Festival, and was the subject of a 40-minute live interview (with performance) on Radio New Zealand National (Jim Mora). In the same year he returned to Kelowna, British Columbia to perform at the Rockanagan festival. In early 2008, he performed a mini-tour of New Zealand with Tessa Rain.

He produces a lo-fi podcast, containing unreleased songs, live performances, and random audio clips that are often initiated from a hand-held micro-cassette recorder.

His writing and performing style is a fusion of blues, rock, folk, and country.

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