Colin Arthur: Singer for The Randy Bachman Band, Colin has released 3 solo CD's nationally and is highly in demand as a performer and songwriter.
Colin Arthur Wiebe grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. Having an opera singer for a father, Colin has grown up with music. He has been writing songs and singing since childhood. Colin won the prestigious American Song Festival with the song "Key To Your Heart", penned with hometown friend and former bandmate, David Reimer. Colin moved to Winnipeg in the early 1980's to join an up and coming recording act called The Billboard Heroes. They moved to Vancouver to record an album which was unfortunately never released. Through the years in the thriving Canadian music scene, Colin fronted the popular Vancouver band "The Meteors" which was one of the most booked bands at 86 St Music Hall during the exciting time of Expo 86. Colin was recruited by A&M recording artist, Paul Janz and toured in support of the Electricity Album. In 1991 Colin joined The Randy Bachman Band and has been a loyal part of Randy's team since.Highlights include playing the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida as well as the NBC Orange Bowl parade. The Governor Generals Award Show on CBC for Neil Young's induction. TV and concert appearances in Europe, the opening of Tin Pan South in Nashville with Delbert McLinton, Michael McDonald, and Jimmy Webb as well as playing many Classic Rock shows with the likes of Alice Cooper, 3 Dog Night, The Doobie Brothers and The Little River Band and many more. See the Bachman Photo Album
Colin is prominently featured on the new Randy Bachman “Every Song Tells Story DVD” and will be touring with Randy throughout 2003.
Colin Arthur Wiebe’s debut album, Livin On Dreams was produced by Randy Bachman (founder of chart-toppers The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive ) The songs are solid, well crafted, radio-friendly, and produced by the man with the midas touch. Colin's rock n' roll, pumping piano can be heard on the albums first track "Pebble In My Shoe". Randy Bachman's ringy Chuck Berry style guitars and Colin's gritty vocal compliment this infectious groove, laid down in style by veteran "Guess Who" drummer Garry Peterson. Songs with lyrics that penetrate the hearts of baby boomers, like "They Grow Up So Fast" the emotional duet with award winning female vocalist Suzanne Gitzi, continues to get airplay ...
Rafael Scarfullery is one of the most renowned artists from the Dominican Republic. Trained as a classical guitarist, composer, and conductor, he has won several awards for his cultural projects, performances, and compositions. His compositions are performed by internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles.
Rafael Scarfullery has taught at Shenandoah University, the Universidad Autónoma of Santo Domingo, and the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of Santo Domingo. He has organized six guitar festivals in the Dominican Republic, where he has invited renowned guitarists. He is also an organist, and has taught harmony, music appreciation, and counterpoint. Being one of the most outstanding guitarists of the Dominican Republic, he has performed widely throughout his country, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the U.S.A, and has been guitar judge in guitar competitions. He has the honor of being the first Dominican guitarist who performed Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Mr. Scarfullery also plays recitals with period instruments from the renaissance and romantic eras. To share his Christian faith, he constantly performs sacred music guitar recitals in churches ...
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Duo, a classical guitar duo performing new transcriptions of works by composers such as Beethoven,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Vivaldi, Chopin, Torelli, Schumann, and Boccherini ...
Guitarplayers: Robert Wetzel and Fred Benedetti.
Robert Wetzel born of Dutch, Indonesian, and Chinese lineage, began serious study of the classical guitar at age fifteen with Darryl Saffer at Southern Methodist University. While still in his teens, he was a performer in the guitar master classes of Christopher Parkening, Oscar Ghiglia, the guitar duo of Ako Ito and Henri Dorigny, Robert Guthrie, and Pepe Romero.
In 1972, he began private studies with Angel Romero that continued for several years ...
Fred Benedetti was born in Sasebo, Japan and began playing the guitar at age 9. In 1986 he was one of 12 guitarists chosen worldwide to perform in the Master Class of Andrés Segovia at USC where Guitarra Magazine wrote, "...Fred Benedetti amazed the audience with his performance of the (Bach) Chaconne..." He has also been a performer for the master classes of Pepe Romero, Christopher Parkening, Federico Moreno-Torroba, George Sakellariou, and David Grimes. Fred has performed in the United States, England, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada, Taiwan and Mexico and locally with the San Diego Symphony, the San Diego Opera, the Starlight Opera, the American Ballet Company, the Old Globe Theatre, Luciano Pavarotti, and jazz artist Dave Brubeck ...
Sure, Dave Beegle plays guitar. In fact he plays guitar so well that peers such as Phil Keaggy calls him "one of the most creative and accomplished guitarists I've met." Progression Magazine labeled Beegle "a guitarist's guitar player" and HM Magazine simply called him "just phenomenal." But Beegle is not "just" a guitarist. He is also a composer, a producer, a teacher and a musical activist remaining on the cutting edge of contemporary music. Hailing from the robust state of Colorado, Beegle makes an inspired sound that delights music fans willing to look beyond the fickle trends of pop.
Dave Beegle has a brand-new album featuring the Dave Beegle Acoustic Band, a unit including bassist Mike Olson, drummer Matt Henderson, percussionist Erik Meyer and guitarist Aaron Lee. Guest percussionist Christian Teele adds significantly to the overall rhythmic expression of this recording. The group has been performing together for several years and has created a distinctive world-music sound as a result. The CD is a blend of world and ethno-alternative fusion with a hearty kick of rock-n-roll inspired energy, leaving this progressive acoustic contribution in a unique musical atmosphere sure to interest those with exotic and sophisticated tastes. From Spanish and Flamenco melodies to Middle Eastern and Balkan flavored arrangements, the Dave Beegle Acoustic Band will take you on a journey 'Beyond the Desert' to a place of tuneful bliss.
Where it all began, however, was with Beegle's electric guitar outlet, Fourth Estate. This groundbreaking power trio led the charge of progressive rock in Colorado in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. To this day, Beegle still books Fourth Estate gigs, playing with Kenny James and Matt Henderson on drums and Mike Olson on bass, and Fourth Estate's instrumental music remains dramatic, inspiring and exotic. New and old Fourth Estate fans are currently enjoying the re-release of the band's debut CD, "Finesse and Fury," re-mastered by rock veteran Stevin McNamara. A new release, "Dustbuster Demos," digs back into the group's earliest recordings to uncover some forgotten gems. Also, Fourth Estate's electric masterpiece, "See What I See," featuring their most challenging work on record, has been reissued to offer fans the opportunity to hear it all.
But electric rock has not been Beegle's only means of expression. All along, as a parallel career, he has been playing acoustic guitar as a solo act, in duo formats and as a pivotal part of the innovative acoustic-based group, the Beegle-Olson-Quist Trio. In the year 2000, Beegle released "A Year Closer," an album that explores Flamenco and other world music styles with solo acoustic recordings and the first tracks by the Dave Beegle Acoustic Band ...
From jazz guitar legend to soul-pop vocalist extraordinaire, 8-time Grammy® winner George Benson has cultivated an international fan base as well as tremendous critical acclaim for three things: incomparable versatility, first-class execution in all he does and, perhaps most importantly, for never being predictable. These are the qualities that have made the man a one-of-a-kind giant in the universe of music, thus lending a fitting ring to the title of his fourth album for GRP/Verve, Irreplaceable. It is an emotional gemstone of seemingly effortless consistency for the superstar who has been dominating the worlds of smooth jazz and NAC radio. Irreplaceable marks a directional shift back to silky sexy soul music…with a decidedly contemporary urban edge....
discography:
George Benson Cookbook,
Absolute Benson,
Verve Jazz Masters 21,
Other Side Of Abbey Road,
Breezin,
Standing Together (Japan),
Most Exciting New Guitarist On The Jazz Scene,
Tell It Like It Is,
Big Boss Band,
Best Of George Benson,
I Got A Woman & Some Blues,
Collection,
Irreplaceable,
The Greatest Hits of All,
Shape Of Things To Come,
That's Right,
New Boss Guitar,
Best Of: Instrumentals,
Talkin Verve,
Standing Together,
White Rabbit,
In Concert,
Give Me The Night,
Benson, George / Farrell, Joe - Benson & Farrell,
Body Talk,
Livin Inside Your Love,
Best Of,
This Is Jazz 9,
Weekend In L.A.,
Beyond Blue Horizon (ltd Digipak Reissue + 3 Track),
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avant-garde guitarist, leader of Los Cubanos Postizos, and downtown NYC icon - Marc Ribot.
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