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Jon McLaughlin

Acoustic guitarist Jon McLaughlin is a talented performer and gifted accompanist. Jon studied with Rex Willis while attending Florida College. A native of Sarasota, Florida, he performed with many rumba flamenco/gypsy swing/tango bands including Los Listos, Los Rumberos, Cabal, and Douce Ambiance and most notably a member of The Lotus Fire and The Willie Royal Quartet.

Slava Grigoryan

Slava Grigoryan was born in 1976 in Kazakhstan and immigrated with his family to Australia in 1981. As a major prizewinner at the Tokyo International Classical Guitar Competition, Slava was signed by the Sony Classical Label in 1995 and has since released 6 solo albums and many collaborative recordings. At the age of 18, his first tour was with guitar legends Paco Peña and Leo Kottke. Slava Grigoryan has performed as a soloist at international festivals such as Brighton, City of London, Harrogate, Newbury, Salisbury, and Chelsea Arts Festivals in the UK, the Dresden Musikfestpiel, the Guitar Festival of Great Britain, the Darwin International Guitar Festival, the GFA Festival in La Jolla, California, the Wirral International Guitar Festival, the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the New Zealand Arts Festival, the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth International Arts Festivals and WOMAD festivals in the UK, USA, Australia and South Africa. He has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Radio Orchestra, the Klagenfurt Symphony Orchestra in Austria, the Halle Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the New Zealand Symphony, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and all of the Australian Symphony Orchestras

Karl Van Deun

Karl is mainly self taught. His main experience is in the folk music, choral music, bluegrass, western swing, country, pop, rock, the R & B, jazz,... Today, jazz has become the main mean of expression in his music, that has integrated all these other musical styles.. He participated in two jazz workshop at Dworp, and attended courses at the Jazzstudio (Antwerp), during two semesters, as a free student. Took guitar lessons with Peter HERTMANS, Garisson FEWELL, Serge LAZAREVITCH and Pierre VAN DORMAEL. In 1991 et 1993, Karl obtains first prize for guitar jazz and for jazz harmony at the Brussels Royal Conservatory. Karl VAN DEUN was a member of Erwin VANN's band, with bassist Michel HATZIGEORGIOU and drummer Dré PALLEMAERTS. He now appears a.o

Sergio Pereira

Born: March 10, 1959

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I started playing acoustic guitar (violao) at the age of 8 years old, influenced by my older brother who played the guitar and helped me with my first chords. I have also been influenced by the music of bossa- nova giants at the time such as Joao Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Joao Donato, Marcus Valle and many more. Growing up in Rio in the 60’s and 70’s has contributed tremendously to the energy, groove and rhythms reflected in my music today.

Moving to New York in the 80’s has motivated me to, not only continuing playing the guitar, but to further enhance my knowledge of music and the guitar itself, hence I started to study with some of the jazz greats including Chuck Wayne, Sal Salvador, Alex Adrian, Hui Cox and Joe Carter. Since the beginning of the 90’s I have been travelling the world, playing with different bands and at various venues in many different countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere.

Robert Dunn

Born: December 14, 1953

I was born into the sort of family that made me want to stay by myself in my room practicing guitar & writing songs. Somehow I developed this mindset where I felt drawn to the surreal/abstract so I gravitated to music that that was that way (psychedelic, Hendrix, Doors, Beatles, etc.) I began studying jazz and as I progressed through bebop, hard bop, modal and into the 'avant garde' or free jazz I began to absorb these genres and developed my own musical approach. I did put together musical units mostly in LA, and where I currently reside - the San Francisco Bay Area that did attract some attention and this is what I am continuing to do to this day.

Tom Cooney

Born: February 21, 1955

Tom Cooney is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been performing and teaching since his teenage years. Tom plays genres on the jazz fringes, including jazz blues. He also plays and sings American Songbook standards. Tom's original music is best described as Contemporary Folk with Blues, Jazz, and Gospel influences. A Connecticut native, Tom lives in greater Bethlehem, PA. Tom began performing at age 15. He has performed performed as a solo and small combo artist. He has also taught beginner and intermediate guitar, bass, music theory, and songwriting for over thirty years. A student and lover of music, Tom minored in Applied Music while in college where he studied jazz guitar with the awesome Norman Johnson

Joanna Davies

Born: July 28, 1964

Which two letters get you from 'rock' to 'rocket'? Easy: J and O. Joanna Davies is the rhythmic foundation of FiddleBop, the rock on which we're built. She is the band's powerhouse, our very own rhythmic rocket. Her nylon-string acoustic rhythm guitar playing brings more than a dash of fiery flamenco duende to FiddleBop's sound! And Jo sings too, both solo and in harmony. Joanna Virginia Fernley Davies — that's her full name — has enjoyed listening to jazz for as long as she can remember. She used to go with her father to hear live jazz at Chipping Norton Theatre on Sunday lunchtimes; later, Jo became a regular listener at Banbury Jazz Club (at the Moat House Hotel, who remembers it then?). But as a music maker, Jo is from a mainly folk background

Rich Osborn

Born: July 1, 1947

Richard Osborn is a raga style guitarist who studied and performed with legendary trailblazer Robbie Basho in the early 1970’s. He was sidelined for almost 30 years by a catastrophic injury to his left hand, taking up painting in the meantime, and quietly working and raising his family. Rich returned to public view in 2010 on the Tompkins Square survey CD “Beyond Berkeley Guitar”. His solo debut album “Giving Voice: Guitar Explorations” garnered high praise in 2012, and he now continues to open wider the possibilities for the acoustic steel string guitar with his new release “Freehand” in 2015

Charlie Beresford

UK based artist and musician Charlie Beresford (acoustic guitar/voice) as well as playing solo he is a founding member of Fourth Page and Radnor Improvisers. His musical life has seen him work with artists spanning most genres such as Alexey Kruglov, Orla Wren, Patrick Dawes, Duke Garwood, M.N Hopwood, June Tabor, and the Ian McMillan Orchestra. Alongside this, he has created numerous scores for short films. Licensed music to MTV USA both East and West coast. He has also worked for the likes of Leo Records, Forwind, the BBC, Smooth Operations, Topic Records and Soundtree. In his other life as a visual artist he set up 'The 52nd' project with Quebec based art photographer/filmaker Gaëna Da Sylva details at the52nd.com.

Samuel Bonnet

Born: April 25, 1980

Samuel Bonnet’s music is an instrumental sound exploration traversed at the same time by the improvised tones of jazz and the melancholy of blues. At the crossroads of several musical universes, the guitarist manages to create an eclectic meeting space between classical and contemporary, somewhere at the crossroads of the natural resonance of classical guitar’s nylon strings and jazz inspirations. Through his music, Samuel Bonnet thus tells us his intimate and personal history in continuous dialogue with his plural roots. His musical universe breathes the perfume of acoustic colours, the memory of the uprooting and the nostalgia of a nomadic spirituality