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| Tim May |
www.timmaymusic.net |
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Guitar,
banjo and mandolin player Tim May has been playing since age 11. In
1989, Tim founded Crucial Smith, a progressive acoustic bluegrass band
based in Nashville, which produced three well-received albums and
performed regularly at high-profile festivals including Telluride, The
Walnut Valley Festival and Winterhawk. He has toured with Patty
Loveless and the John Cowan Band, performed at the Grand Ole Opry in
2006/2007 and was the solo guitarist on I’ll Fly Away,
nominated for the 2006 Country Instrumental of the Year Grammy Award.
He performs regularly with his wife, fiddler Gretchen Priest and their
band Plaidgrass and is respected nationwide as a teacher and clinician.
He’s taught at the Nashville Guitar College, South Plains College and
at Nashcamp, as well as traveled the country as a clinician for
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| Pat Flynn |
www.patflynnmusic.com |
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Pat
Flynn is a well known name, in one way or another, to music fans all
over the world. You may recognize him as a member of a groundbreaking
musical group, or a first-call Nashville recording session player, or a
producer, songwriter, and artist. As guitarist/singer/songwriter for New Grass Revival,
Flynn, along with Sam Bush, John Cowan, and Béla Fleck, influenced many
of today's best-known artists while building New Grass Revival's own
loyal audience to near cult status. During his tenure with NGR, Frets
magazine’s National Readers Poll voted Pat as “Best Acoustic Guitarist”
for five consecutive years. For winning five years in a row, Flynn was
inducted into the Frets "Gallery of Greats" alongside Chet Atkins, Doc
Watson and Tony Rice. Flynn has been a session guitarist on more than
350 CD projects.
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| Stefan Papasoff |
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Guitarist
Stefan Papasoff began playing in clubs around his hometown of
Pittsburgh at age 14 and by 16, had left high school to tour the US and
Canada with his own band, performing at concerts and music
festivals. He attended and graduated from the esteemed Studio
Music and Jazz Guitar program at the University of Miami while spending
his nights performing in the South Florida music scene, playing
everything from rock to R&B to jazz. After leaving Miami, he
spent a summer playing in South America with his band and performing
for the Miss Universe Pageant before moving to New York City. While
living in New York, he earned a Master’s degree from New York
University’s Jazz Studies Program while teaching in the jazz department
there. A highly regarded performer, studio musician and
teacher/clinician, Stefan now calls Nashville home.
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