ABOUT US

ABOUT US

WHO WE ARE

 The members of “ Rock Paper Moon ” come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds – high school bands, garage bands, church and community choirs, folk music, and street busking.  With sweet harmonies, they cover a repertoire of fifties,  sixties, and seventies hits that include jazz, rock, folk and country favourites backed by a line-up of guitars, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, harmonica, and keyboards.

STEVE BRITTEN

Steve has been passionate about music for six decades and he still feels that he’s on a lifelong learning curve. His mantra is “Listen, Learn, Practice, and Play” and he strives to do at least one of those every single day. He says that singing and playing music with other people is the finest form of human communication – and that it’s better than chocolate!


He’s fanatical about Beethoven and the Beatles, Bach and Bachman Turner Overdrive – and everything in-between. He believes he was born into the golden age of modern music and he loves to play songs written in the Nineteen-Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies. He’s forgotten how many guitars he owns and he loves the challenge of learning to play other instruments in an effort to augment the sound of the band.


Steve is a retired businessman and has too much time on his hands. Apart from his passion for music he loves the Great Outdoors and is nuts about photographing wildlife in far-flung parts of the planet – a pastime that has taken him from Africa to the Arctic in pursuit of the ultimate shot of exotic birds

CONSTANTIN STARCK

Constantin grew up listening to his dad play piano by ear, singing in church, and listening to his siblings struggling with piano lessons. He learned piano and trumpet ‘as required’ by his parents, but then moved to more passive musical pursuits, collecting records and exploring the Vancouver club and concert scene. He still has a record collection of over 1000 LPs and is the only member of the group with 4 working turntables in the house. His artistic side led him to studying photography in his twenties and then working as a portrait photographer. In a move he himself is still trying to understand, he then navigated a career U-turn and became a Chartered Accountant. The madness of the accounting world was only tempered when he bought a guitar and started to sing around the campfire.

Constantin has been singing as long as he can remember, but other than school and church choirs, most of his singing was done in Karaoke bars and while driving. We all feel a bit safer now that his musical pursuits have been moved off of public roads and bars to the RPM rehearsal hall. He was born 10 years too late for his musical tastes, and the happy coincidence of meeting the other RPM band members Steve in 2008 and Theresa in 2018 proved to be a perfect musical match. Constantin is RPM’s audiophile techno geek who toils over microphone characteristics, tube amplifier attributes, and still thinks that vinyl records sound better than digital.

THERESA

ST-ARNAUD

Theresa has always been fascinated with music and singers; she plagued her parents with constant demands to identify every artist singing on the radio. She taught herself to read music and to play the recorder before she was 10 years old. Her childhood pleadings to take piano lessons went unfulfilled, so she became a closet guitar player (literally!), borrowing her older sister’s guitar on the sly and practicing – in her parents’ walk-in closet – what her sister was learning from friends in high school. When her older sister moved on to other interests, Theresa was the happy recipient of a cast-off guitar, which she promptly carted along to church where she joined the youth choir. Today, some 45 years later, she still plays guitar and sings at church on Sundays, and also teaches a children’s church choir.


Since joining RPM in 2018, Theresa has filled out the band’s sound with vocal harmonies and percussion. More recently, she's undertaken instrumental accompaniment on ukulele and electric bass.

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