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Bluegrass
Academy Instructors
Guitar & Mandolin: Tony Watt
Award-winning flatpicking guitarist Tony Watt has performed at
bluegrass festivals throughout the United States and Europe, on the
Grand Ole Opry, and elsewhere. He has been featured in Bluegrass Now
Magazine and Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, and toured and recorded with
Nashville-based Cages Bend, east Tennessee-based Meridian, and most
recently with Rounder Recording artist Alecia Nugent. Tony currently
performs with his band, Southeast Expressway, and with Leigh Gibson,
guitarist for The Gibson Brothers. He has taught privately for over 10
years, and now teaches courses for the Boston Bluegrass Union’s
Bluegrass Academy. He has also taught guitar workshops and Kids'
Academies at bluegrass festivals including Grey Fox, Thomas Point
Beach, Joe Val, and many more. Tony teaches guitar and mandolin
lessons in Albany, NY, Cambridge, MA, and points in-between. For more
info visit www.theoriginaltonywatt.com or e-mail tonywatt@gmail.com
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Banjo: Rich Stillman
Richard Stillman
has been playing banjo for nearly thirty years, including stints with a number of influential Northeast bluegrass bands, including the Jersey Travelers (four years, one album), Southern Rail (four years, two albums), WayStation (seven years, one CD) and his current band, Adam Dewey and Crazy Creek (three years, two CDs). He has additional studio recording credits with New England folk artists John Burrows and John Michaels. Mr. Stillman was New Jersey banjo champion in 1983 and the 2002 and 2003 New England banjo champion. He is a six-time winner of the annual banjo contest held at Lowell, Massachusetts (1985-1995), where he has given the bluegrass banjo workshop every year since 1996.
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