Chris Merenda is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and lead singer/performer who brings his unique songwriting talent and roaring vocal skills to every musical endeavor he participates in with a bloodline that runs deep into the history of northeast roots music.

The New Hampshire Seacoast-born Merenda has been performing and re-inventing his sound for the past two and a half decades. Whether it was ska/reggae, punk and rock in the nineties, or folk, Americana, blues and bluegrass in more recent years, Merenda is a master of melding various styles into a sound all his own.

After spending his early years in the Seacoast music scene, Merenda fatefully ended up in the Berkshires thanks to the region’s first family of folk music. While playing drums in Arlo Guthrie’s band for the 40th anniversary of Alice's Restaurant tour in 2005, Merenda met his wife on the tour and relocated to the Berkshires shortly there after. Merenda was Guthrie’s drummer on this six-month tour of theaters and musical festivals all across America, with a grand finale culminated in a performance at Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving.

Simultaneously to this tour, Merenda was finishing up his second solo release Hello Freedom, a follow-up from his 2003 solo debut The Regimen. Both albums were produced by Duncan Watt and received praise across the globe for their wit and relatable humanity. Between 2001 and 2008, Merenda toured nationally and internationally with The Mammals, a family band founded by his brother Mike and sister-in-law Ruth Merenda along with Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (grandson of the late great Pete Seeger).

Merenda and his family live in Becket, Mass. where he frequently performs in projects including Chris Merenda & The Picky Bastards and the much-loved Led Zeppelin cover band, Four Sticks.