Welcome To Hat Creek Records

Hat Creek Records is committed to quality music. We connect with singer-song writers around the world to get the music to you. We help you get the best music available. We have strong musical knowledge and can match your individual needs to the music. At Hat Creek Records, we pride ourselves on giving expert advice in a pressure free environment. It’s about world music with local flavour. Hat Creek Records is a resource for the music and arts community in Alberta and beyond. You can find CDs and vinyl here from all over the world at Hat Creek Records.

Hat Creek Records receives support from the Silk Road Arts Council of Hat Creek, Alberta.

Trio Yumuri - AZUCAR DE CUBA

Trio Yumuri
Evelio Morejon, Marialis Abreu Y Alonso Cobas

Trio Yumuri is from Matanzas Cuba. They perform nightly in Varadero at the Varadero Oasis 1920. The sound is typically Cuban with much jazz and arabic influences combining with their strong vocal harmonies. Trio Yumuni has released two CDs which are available directly from them by mail.

Led Ka’apana & Mike Kaawa - FORCES OF NATURE

An exciting LIVE recording by two of Hawaii’s strongest and most loved slack key players. There are 13 tunes on this new CD.

Julie Kerr - DEEPER STILL

Julie Kerr is an exciting songwriter and vocalist born and raised in Calgary. She is a member of Calgary’s hottest bluegrass band WIDOW MAKER and she was a member of the now defunct alternative bluegrass/country band Great Uncle Bull. Julie’s most recently has released her second album of 14 original tunes. The CD is DEEPER STILL and is all strong lyrics, combined with Kerr’s smooth and earthy voice that is built on a dramatic, emotional and musical landscape. Julie Kerr is spicy and sultry. She is poignant and powerful. Julie Kerr blends folk, bluegrass and country music to create her own unique feel.

Kimmie Rhodes - WALLS FALL DOWN

Al Warden - The VOICES CAME FROM BOSTON

The Voices Came From Boston is a brand new cowboy CD from Al Warden of the Bar Lazy W in Eastern Ontario. This collection of seven original songs is Al Warden’s first CD. All the songs are well crafted stories from the pen of Story Teller and Singer Al Warden. The songs all have a true cowboy feeling as well as some salt water reflecting Al’s “Maritime Period.

Kaukahi - LIFE IN THESE ISLAND

Kaukahi is the journey of 4 Hawaiian men on different paths, all destined to meet. They joined together in 2004 for a single purpose: to live and share ALOHA wherever they go. The vision is clearer as they become more comfortable with who they were created to be, tapping into deep inner resources while at the same time connected by the Spirit. Whether singing, telling their stories, or laughing together they are having great time and spreading ALOHA. Their faith and their love for one another, their families, Hawai’i, and the nations, is a common thread that keeps them going.

The got together and started singing in April 2004. From the moment they began at their very first “jam” there was magic! The more they got to know each other, hanging out with each other’s families, and playing music together, it was obvious there was something special about the energy of this group. They were all accomplished musicians and knew about each other, but all four had never played music together before 2004. They didn’t all show up at Dean’s carport by accident. Kawika was not only a well known Hawaiian musician with two solo CD’s on the market but a highly respected “Kahu” (spiritual leader) who Dean wanted to meet. That meeting finally happened in 2003. Dean and Barrett had been friends for many years after their paths crossed during middle school at Kamehameha School. They remained connected, playing together in the band, “Pai’ea”, who became well-known when their first CD became a Na Hoku Hanohano Award finalist. “Pai’ea” was about to record their second CD when the Kaukahi connections began. Dean also met Walt in 2003 at a park where each had taken their children. Walt, who is a cousin to the late Iz Kamakawiwo’ole, was playing his ‘ukulele while hanging out with his daughter.

Tom Russell Releases WOUNDED HEART

Tom Phillips - DOWNTOWN COWBOY

Teresa Bright - HAWAIINAWA

Hawaiinawa is a brand new release from beloved Hawaiian musician Teresa Bright. This exciting new CD is inspired by the Japanese love for the Hawaiian culture, music and hula. It also draws in the recent popularity of Okinawan music among Japan’s younger generation. Hawaiinawa brings these two cultures together and entwines Okinawan music with the sweet gentle language and sounds of Hawai’i. This is a unique and captivating collection of music that is recorded in the Hawaiian language, arranged with the the Kiho’alu (slack key) tunings and then all flavored with the vocal style of Teresa Bright.