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Ross Hammond
A Sacramento guitarist
About Me
Sacramento guitarist Ross Hammond has been playing music on large
stages and in small corners on the West Coast and beyond for the past
decade.
He has received the Sacramento News and Review music award for
Best Area Jazz Musician in 2008, 2009 and 1999 (with Chili Palmer
Project) and received a Critic’s Choice award for Special Achievement in
2007.
Hammond currently hosts “Nebraska Mondays,” a weekly improvised
music series at Luna’s Cafe in Sacramento. To check out the series go
to www.nebraskamondays.blogspot.com.
He programs the annual “In The Flow Festival” in Sacramento which he
founded with Byron Blackburn in 2008. For information go to
www.intheflowsacramento.com.
Recent projects include:
-Electropoetic Coffee, a duo with poet and vocalist NSAA.
-Lovely Builders, a guitar and drum duo with Scott Amendola
-A Quartet with Vinny Golia, Alex Cline and Steuart Liebig
-V Neck, a duo with drummer Tom Monson
-Chromis, an ambient quartet with Kevin Corcoran, Daryl Shawn and
Wes Steed
He has collaborated with Erik Kleven, Phillip Greenlief, Kevin Seconds,
Vinny Golia, Alex Cine, Scott Amendola, Josh Fernandez, Roscoe
Mitchell, GE Stinson, Oliver Lake, Tony Passarell, David Boyce, Sameer
Gupta, Rick Lotter, Daryl Shawn, Lee Bob Watson, Brian Ballentine,
Wes Steed, Christian Kiefer, Darren Johnston and Devin Hoff, Kevin
Corcoran, Lucio Menegon, John Hanes, Byron Blackburn, Lisa
Mezzacappa and many others...