Having grown up in the San Juan Islands, Kels is steeped in a love for life, the land and community. His newly created One Tree Records is an alternative and collective record label created with the intention to help grow, nourish and sustain great independent music! Rooted in the Pacific NW, they are a unique cooperative seeding musical expression by branching out through community networking to provide a platform of support and direction for aspiring artists. Boreen counts as his inspiration family, friends, community, love, pain, traveling and wandering, weird and uncomfortable social situations, addictions, loss, late nights and sunrises, hardship, fellowship, relationships, mishaps and magic, conflict and contrast, life and death, darkness and light.