CREE CYBERTAR "Taking It In Stride"

by jenny heying

Sometimes you have to reach a long way to gain an audience. It seems like so far in real life but in Second Life® it’s just a moment away. Streaming from Manitoba, Canada, Cree Cybertar took the stage at The Lost Continent for a performance after a week away.

After dealing with some opening stream technical issues, Cree finally gave us his rendition of “Wonderful Tonight” before rocking into “Lodi” and mellowing with “Blind Faith”.

As I said, Cree is from Manitoba, and is a Cree Indian, hence the name. He plays guitar and uses it as his only accompaniment. He’s marvelous on the guitar and doesn’t need any backing tracks to help. He does a great job on his own.


Cree loves to wail away and his voice reaches out with abandon. He’s better on up tempo songs and showed it when he threw out “Stuck In The Middle With You”. But that being said, the slower stuff grows on you. Cree does a lot of older songs, the kind you know most of the words too and probably haven’t heard in a good long time. Well he digs them out for you and you just have to sing along.

I don’t know where he streams from exactly, but I can imagine him sitting back with his feet up strumming his guitar. He seems that relaxed and without a care in the world. It’s kind of contagious. With “Desperado”, you felt like you were sitting around someone’s house listening to him strum away.

Unfortunately half way thru his set, SL decided to send me into oblivion. It took me a while, but I did manage to get back for the last part of Cree’s show. I got back just in time to hear him put the finishing touches on “Dixieland Delight”.

A Cree Cybertar show is a joy to be part of. He’s a fun loving guy and ensures the crowd is part of his show. He interacts between songs and makes sure you know what he’s playing. He likes to lead into his material with a little story about the song or artist. His voice is soft when he speaks and sometimes it’s tough to hear him, but I strained and managed. When singing however, you can’t miss his voice.

The crowd this night was quite receptive to Cree’s renditions. The chat log was constantly moving and all were of the appreciative type. Cree reads them and does make the odd comment. He’s very aware of his supporters.

Cree crosses genre lines nicely. While playing mostly older rock songs of the CCR type, he did do “Always Somewhere” by the Scorpions and it was awesome.

Patience is definitely an asset when it comes to Second Life® and the constant borkiness. Cree must have learned that because no matter what, he seems to take it in stride. Nice to have. He’s a very patient man and it shows in his music. It’s not laid back, but he certainly won’t be putting out any fires. Mind you with his performance, he can probably start a few.

He ended his hour long set with “Shooting Star” and a lively version of “Midnight Special” putting the finishing touches on a marvelous show.