Coming soon: Chris Belsito bobble-heads? (22 photos)

It's official.

Chris Belsito is now ready for groupies.

As the local musician's fourth CD was launched last night at the Windsor Park Ballroom, the Chris Belsito T-shirts were selling faster than they could be printed.

And Belsito was talking about the possibility of having other merchandise created as well.

He wasn't saying exactly what his new swag will be, but he did assure SooToday.com that (much to our disappointment) there will not be a Chris Belsito bobble-head doll.

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Belsito's solid musical content in Fade Dissolve was accented last night by Sault Ste. Marie's first professional performance DVD.

Belsito says he made the DVD partly to prove that independent artists are a lot less limited than they may think they are.

"I really wanted to do things that I would if I were actually signed to a record label," he said. "Instead of not doing something because I'm not on a record label I just figured out a way to do it."

The DVD was produced from footage of a Chris Belsito Band concert at Algoma University College, shot shortly after the release of his last CD Turbulence.

"Its a very-limited edition of Fade Dissolve that has the DVD," says Belsito.

Your next chance to catch Belsito is tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Roberta Bondar Tent Pavilion at 7 p.m.

At his official website, you can sign up for e-mail updates.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: SooToday.com's Carol Martin is also the editor of the limited-edition DVD distributed last night with Chris Belsito's new CD. Everything she writes about him should therefore be utterly disregarded.)