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Alon Albagli

Valerie June

Born: January 10, 1982

Hers is a twilight voice, a liquid silk from the heart of Tennessee. It is tailor-made for lullabies and lyric blues; and so, for that matter is Valerie June's spirit. For years June quietly built her brand in Memphis, where magnetic Southern charm and stunning stage presence earned her a feature spot on MTV web series $5 Cover. But no reality show could capture the true reality of this talent: a self-taught guitarist, banjoist and songwriter, June has crafted a sound that draws on the best of southern traditions. This is organic moonshine roots music, a warm pastiche of achin' vintage country and powerful delta blues- and a style she had delivered on three solo albums, including her eponymous 2010 release

Laurie Dameron

Born: May 5, 1960

Billboard Magazine award recipient, Laurie Dameron, has been playing the guitar for over 50 years and singing even longer. Between solo performances and performances with her band, Laurie D and the Blues Babes, she has performed for hundreds of venues in and out of Colorado over the past 20 years. Laurie is versatile including selections from folk, instrumental, pop, country, blues, and jazz that allow her to play a variety of venues. Recent performances include Boulder Creek Festival, Capital Hill People's Fair and A Taste of Colorado and the 2008 Colorado Democratic Convention. Dameron has produced and arranged three CDs

Alex Pinter

Born: July 29, 1979

Alex Pinter was born and raised in Graz, started playing the piano at age 5, switched to guitar when he was around 14, and hasn't stopped ever since. He persued a carreer in cancer research (master's degree in genetics and microbiology) at first, but the music obviously had a different plan with him, or as his teacher Mick Goodrick put it: you don‘t choose music, music chooses you. So, while finishing his biology degree, Alex already studied jazz/popular music performance and music education in Vienna. While studying there, he was selected to receive a scholarship for a full-time study program at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston while attending a clinic in Perugia/Italy, where Alex also played at one of the biggest European Jazz Festivals, Umbria Jazz

Solo Funk

Solo Funk, formed by Shane Hill and Paul Downing, create original compositions with smoking grooves and blistering solos. A new fusion of contemporary jazz and funk intertwined with the original improvisations of some of the world's finest Jazz musicians. Shane Hill : Electric and acoustic guitars, Keyboards Paul Downing : Bass Guitars, Keyboards Dick Pearce : Flugel Horn & Trumpet Mark Allaway : Saxophones & Flute Produced by : Shane Hill & Paul Downing Engineering & Programming : Paul Downing Assistant Mix Engineer : Jamie Orchard-Lisle Artwork : Jackie Lewin

Charles Altura

Hannes De Kassian

Born: March 15

Hannes De Kassian’s music is a process of continual discovery and reinvention. For the Austrian-born, New York–based guitarist and composer, making music is the ongoing search to mine the spiritual, to delve deeper and deeper into our humanity, especially in the face of an overwhelmingly technological world. Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1964, De Kassian began his classical and jazz guitar studies at age 11, and in his early 20s began studying at the prestigious Musikhochschule Graz (Music University) in Austria. There, in the late 80’s, he studied with the master guitarist Harry Pepl, who continues to be a significant influence and inspiration in his current work

Tony Ormesher

Tony Ormesher is a Liverpool-born guitarist who, in 1993 at the age of 12, won the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Musician of the Year award. After finishing as runner up in the Young Jazz Musician of the Year regional finals in 1997, he went on to study jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Whilst at the Guildhall School of Music, Anthony studied guitar with John Parricelli and took master classes with legends such as Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham and Dave Liebman. Since leaving college Anthony has made a name for himself nationaly playing alongside the cream of British Jazz artists, Henry Lowther, Jim Mullen, Bruce Adams, Roy Williams, Digby Fairweather, Anthony Kerr, Jonathan Gee and Gary Potter to name but a few. Anthony is a core member, and has toured extensively in Britain and Europe with the highly aclaimed Manchester based ensemble, The Magic Hat Band. Since returning to Liverpool he regularly performs around the Northwest along with annual performances in Germany where in 2006 he won the Berlin Jazz and Blues award.

Tom Yates

Ariel Gragnani

Born: 1985

Brazilian guitarist Ariel Gragnani received his Bachelors and Masters of Performance degrees from the Royal College of Music graduating with distinction. While studying at the RCM, Ariel was awarded the Leverhulme Postgraduate Scholarship as well as the Lucy Ann Jones fund. He began his musical career performing traditional Brazilian music ranging from samba, choro and bossa nova. Following his studies at the music Conservatoire of Tatui in Sao Paulo, Ariel performed in the USA and Europe before furthering his studies in the UK. In London, Ariel studied flamenco with Francisco Antonio and classical guitar with Professor Timothy Walker from the Royal Academy of Music