Paul Runalls

5 String Bass, Guitar, Mandolin and Vocals

Musical Influences:

-Fred Penner, Mark Knoppfler, Beatles, Steely Dan, Randy Bachman, Deep Purple, Yes, Jethro Tull, The Doobie Brothers, Genesis, Paul Hann, Carlos Santana and my prairie sailor band buddies Ned Ramsay and Sheila Vaadeland

Hobbies/Interests:

 - volunteering, playing geriatric soccer, writing/performing songs for children and writing music for a new cartoon series(Tales of Ty The T-Rex)

Portsmouth Football Club aka Pompey(passionate fan), The English Premier League

 Music Awards:

-never won anything not even an all expense paid trip to a water fountain!.....but my Children’s Cd “Songs

From My Head” was named to CBC Galaxie’s World’s Top ten list for three months on the Kid’s Stuff channel

by Mira Laufer..tunes from this Cd also play  regularly on Treehouse

-finalist in The International Songwriting Competition 2008 in the children's music category

-appearing on CBC’s The Mr. Dressup Show in Toronto was an honour and one of  life’s highlights, Mr Dressup was a great guy, shared a make up room with Wendy Mesley

plus I got to solve the mystery of the missing plastic cow!

Degrees:-B.A. B.ED

Real Job:-Grade1 and 2 teacher

To see and hear Paul's TV theme song animated by Adrian Dean with lyrics by Chris Atkinson click below