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I owe my first interests in playing the guitar to the free spirited chops of Eddie Van Halen which so captured my fascination back in grade school and fueled an obsession to learn. When I began guitar lessons at 14 my first teacher quickly opened my eyes to such guitarists as Robben Ford, Larry Coryell, Al Di Miola, Pat Metheny and guitar genius Lenny Breau and the endless road to developing my guitar skills began. At 34 I am but a short way into that journey but I'm forever discovering great influences and pursue a variety of stylistic forms from jazz, rock fusion, solo acoustic to traditional folk. I was fortunate to attend the Berklee College of music both for a 5 week music program in high school and for 2 years after high school to study film scoring. I later transferred to the University of Maine at Augusta's jazz program where I earned my bachelors degree in jazz performance. At 22 I took an interests in traditional dance music and picked up the mandolin and fiddle and helped in the founding of the Celtic/world band Wake the Neighbors that has endured to this day. I'm currently working to develop my song writing skills and hope to produce an album of all original solo compositions and songs. Some of My biggest influences to this date are Mike Stern, David Surrette, Robben Ford, Bruce Cockburn, Sting and John Mayer though there are so, so many more.
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