Christopher Tree

Multi-instrumentalist Avant-Garde artist, who rose out of the primordial art scene that was pre-Beat Los Angeles.

Untrained as a musician, he garnered his first audiences performing with the earliest light show happenings of the 1950's. He was championed by artists the likes of Angus MacLise, Jack Cassidy and Harry Bertoia, and shared concert bills with Captain Beefheart, The Incredible String Band, John Cage, Jefferson Airplane and even Lenny Bruce.

Tree presented more than 600 of his "Spontaneous Sound" concerts in the US, the majority of which were held in California and New York. The venues included theaters, clubs, radio, television, prisons (including Sing Sing and San Quentin), juvenile detention centers, children’s and mental hospitals, schools for the deaf, blind and mentally handicapped, Native American, Afro-American and Latino centers, old age homes and convalescent hospitals, nursery, elementary, middle and high schools, universities, the Girl Scouts, "Love-Ins", museums, libraries, churches, parks and sidewalks.

In the late 80's he moved to Europe, giving concerts in most western countries. He lived in Greece, Germany and Switzerland; then settled in France for 19 years, where he continued to hold children¹s workshops, and concerts with children. He also provided music therapy for the mentally handicapped and schizophrenics.

He returned to the US in the early 2010's, living and performing in the southern Oregon coast. Passed away on September 2021.