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Tab Benoit

Born: November 17, 1967

Tab Benoit - guitar, vocalist With all the makings of an American music icon, Tab Benoit has become one of the premiere roots stylists of the century. Tab has paid his dues as a road troubadour playing 250 nights a year performing at venues across North America, honing his guitar chops and becoming part of Louisiana folklore. Tab Benoit is a Cajun, born November 17, 1967; he grew up in Houma, Louisiana. A guitar player since his teenage years, he hung out at the Blues Box, a ramshackle music club and cultural center in nearby Baton Rouge run by guitarist Tabby Thomas. Playing guitar alongside Thomas, Raful Neal, Henry Gray and other high-profile regulars at the club, Benoit learned the blues first-hand from a faculty of living blues legends

Mickey "Guitar" Baker

Born: October 15, 1925

Mickey Baker has a well deserved reputation as an influential guitar player primarily through his studio session work for Atlantic in the 1950’s, and in the fusing of R&B with the then new rock and roll. Mickey "Guitar" Baker entered the world in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 15, 1925. During his formative years he led a troubled life which saw him spending time in a reform school and a home for troubled children. By the time he was sixteen years old he had migrated to New York City and became part of the anonymous crowded area of Harlem. He continued to find himself in and out of compromising positions that were very close to leading him to a life as a professional thief, or worse

Tuck Andress

Born: October 28, 1952

After 20 years of making music together as husband-and-wife jazz duo Tuck & Patti, Tuck Andress's guitar and Patti Cathcart's vocals blend smoothly into a honed sound all their own. They perform both their own compositions, such as "High Heel Blues," and standards like "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story and Stevie Wonder's "I Wish." Each concert ends with their signature closer, "You Take My Breath Away." Andress was raised in Oklahoma. He studied piano and took up guitar as a young teenager, when he was eager to play in a neighborhood garage band. He studied for a few months with Tommy Crook, but was primarily a self-taught artist who learned by playing with other musicians, listening to records, and experimenting

Arthur Adams

Born: December 25, 1940

Bluesman Arthur Adams is a singer,songwriter, guitar-slinger and dynamic performer, Adams’s diverse life experiences and musical history have merged and matured into a unique style that expresses universal emotions through a highly individual lens. Arthur Adams has been a popular mainstay of the blues scene in Los Angeles for many years. As the featured house bandleader at B.B. King’s blues club in Universal City, Arthur exposed patrons night after night to his soulful blend of silky rhythm & blues combined with his searing guitar and buttery smooth vocal delivery. The Tennessee native got his start early in life at six years old singing in the church choir and later acquired his first guitar as he entered into his teens

Mama's Cookin

One of Colorado's fastest rising bands, Mama's Cookin' is now hotter than ever. Mixing neo-blues and bottle-neck slide with a touch of hip-hop, The Cookin' has created an innovative new sound. And it's time to take the show back on the road. Once jazz students at Colorado’s Western State College, the bands that Mama’s Cookin’ has shared the stage with reads like a who’s who of the current musical scene. Bands such as Derek Trucks, Tea Leaf Green, Rebirth Brass Band, Mofro, Ozomatli, Col. Bruce and the Codetalkers, Leftover Salmon, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, JoJo Herman of Widespread Panic, the Greyboy Allstars, Hairy Apes BMX, Papa Grows Funk, the Motet, and Garaj Mahal. One thing’s for certain

Greg Diamond

Born: March 23, 1977

Greg Diamond is a jazz guitarist, composer, and crossover classical artist whose work

bridges modern jazz, Latin American traditions, and contemporary classical performance. An

active performer in New York, Miami, and internationally, Diamond has emerged as a distinctive

voice whose music reflects both deep harmonic sophistication and rhythmic vitality. Latin Jazz

Network describes him as a “composer of great maturity and genius,” while Acoustic Guitar

magazine praises his “deep harmonic language and unerring sense of groove.”

Born in New York City to a musically inclined family of mixed Eastern European Jewish

Norman Goodman

Born: July 13, 1966

University educated musician who has toured with a variety of artists.

QBall

Born: May 6, 1985

Will Bernard

Guitarist Will Bernard, a Berkeley, CA native and Brooklyn NY transplant studied guitar  from an early age with Dave Creamer (known for his work with Miles Davis), later developing and interest in classical music composition . He received a a degree in music from UC Berkeley where he studied with Andrew Imbrie and others.

He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble,who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made 3 albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book.

Roberto Pianca

Born: 1984

Born 1984, guitarist/composer Roberto Pianca studied music at the Amsterdam Conservatory (NL). He has played and worked with a variety of notable artists including Joey Baron, Russ Lossing, John O’Gallagher, Thomas Morgan, Dado Moroni, Pietro Tonolo and Savina Yannatou a.o. In 2008 he founded avantgarde trio Third Reel, the band joined prestigious and legendary german label ECM Records.