August 21st, 2009 - Chase The Sun cancelled tonight’s

“I was playing all sorts of stuff through school but when I heard Joe Satriani, that’s when I knew I wanted to be a guitar player” recalls Rynsaardt of his 20-year focus.
Satriani lead to Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn who took Rynsaardt back to the blues. “Stevie Ray pushed me in an early direction: back to the blues masters like BB King, Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter”

As well as being nominated in the Blues and Roots and instrumental categories of the recent MusicOz awards and taking home the instrumental trophy, Chase The Sun were recently informed that their self-titled debut album entered the US Billboard Blues Album Chart at #13 following an iTunes promotion in October which saw the lead single You Gotta Go available as a free download from the iTunes home page.

Chase the Sun have built a strong following in Australia through constant touring over the past twelve months, but cracking into the US market has come as a welcome surprise to the band.

Chase The Sun the album debuted at #5 on the iTunes blues chart and two tracks from the album are in the top 100 downloads for the blues and roots category worldwide. Having just launched the album in Japan, Chase The Sun seem to be headed global in a big way!

The Band were also nominated for 5 awards at the Australian Blues Awards, Chase The Sun took home both the Best Group and Best Song awards (for “You Gotta Go”)

“You Gotta Go” gained great momentum on airwaves around the country, including play on Triple J, ABC National and Qantas in-flight radio Rock On Q, plus received great support from leading community radio stations nationally.


The Album ‘Chase The Sun’ is available on iTunes globally and in Australia in all good music stores through MGM distribution.