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Shasta Bree is a Singer-Songwriter, Photographer, and Screenwriter living in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally from the Pacific Northwest where her Great Grandfather, Harold P. Dorsey worked as a civil engineer for the state of Washington. Harold Dorsey and Lacy Murrow ( well known News Broadcaster, Edward R. Murrow’s little brother) were dear friends and worked together during the early 1900’s building roadways and bridges throughout the States. Shasta grew up in the Murrow house in Bellingham, Wash. The old craftsman house was purchased from Edward & Lacy’s mother, Ethel Murrow, by Idabelle Williams Dorsey (Shasta’s Great Grandmother). It was a gift for her daughter, Barbara Belle Dorsey (Shasta’s grandmother). The scenic Chuckanut Drive was one of the many projects Harold and Lacy completed together and Shasta spent her childhood upon the beaches at that coastline. The Puget Sound and San Juan Islands greatly influenced our young Shasta Bree and can be felt in her artistic expressions. In 2003 Shasta moved to Seattle, Washington after years living abroad and in Maui, Hawaii. In Seattle she studied Film and Music. Continuing to build her solo career in music while working full time in early childhood education. Her early years in Bellingham provided opportunity to begin performing professionally with her first bands, The High Country Riders and Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Shasta performs at a fundraiser for Northwest Harvest Organization each year in Seattle as part of an All Star production paying tribute to The Band’s “The Last Waltz”, a documentary film by Martin Scorsese. The fundraiser is held at the historic Neptune Theatre in November, raising money to feed hungry families at the holidays. The name Shasta Bree was given to her by her mother, chosen as a nod to some of her favorite literature growing up. The book, The Outsiders. And The Cronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.