Welcome
to the LIFGC Member Directory
Please
visit our membership page to read about the benefits of
becoming a LIFGC member which includes being a part of our
member directory. If you become a presenter for one of our
meetings we will include you in our member directory.
BEN
DIAMOND (Presenter/Member)
Info:
Fingerstyle Guitarist with
focus on Hawaiian Slack Key as well as other styles.
Founder
of the Long Island Hawaiian Slack Association- a non-profit
group of Long Island-based Hawaiian slack key guitar players.
Contact:
lihslackkey@aol.com
Website:
http://lihsa.org
JEFF
CURTIS (Member)
Info:
Guitarist/composer, instrumental
eclectic fingerstyle acoustic guitarist
Contact:
jeff@jeffcurtismusic.com
Website:
http://www.jeffcurtismusic.com/pages/bio.htm
DAN
DOLL (Presenter/Founder)
Info:
Blues/Rock Guitarist/co-founder
of the LIFGC, currently lead guitarist for the Killer Joe
& the Lido Soul Revue
Contact
: info@lifgc.com
LISA
DOLL ( Founder )
Info:
Eclectic fingerstyle guitarist/Founder
of the LIFGC
Contact:
info@lifgc.com
DEE
HARRIS (Presenter)
Info:
an eclectic guitarist who
plays a wide variety of plucked stringed instruments covering
multiple musical styles and traditions which includes: Renaissance,
Medieval lute tunes, Banjo (Appalachian music), Irish/Celtic
Music, Blues, and North India music
Contact:
deelaura@optonline.net
Website:
http://www.deeharris.com
DONALD
P JOHNSON (Member/Sponsor)
Info
: Donald Johnson is a classically
trained musician, who plays piano, keyboard and guitar &
a singer/songwriter who has performed at Carnegie Hall (Weill
Hall). He has toured with an alternative rock band that
opened for Renaissance and Concrete Blonde.
Don released the first in a series of CDs called “Work Songs”
and has a new video of his song “Propaganda” on youtube.com.
Contact:
donaldpjohnson@optonline.net
Website:
www.donaldpjohnson.com
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/donaldpjohnson
KERRY
KEARNEY (Presenter)
Info:
Kerry
Kearney, a world class blues guitarist, plays an exciting
and unique style of Blues-Roots-Delta music. The Kerry Kearney
band was voted “ Long Island's Best Blues Band,"
and has recently been presented with the
Long Island Sound Award (L.I.S.A.) by the Long Island Music
Hall of Fame. He has shared the stage with notables
such as The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts, Sonny Landreth,
Marcia Ball, Leon Russell, John Lee Hooker Jr. and Mountain
and has played all-star shows at B.B. Kings,
The
Bottom Line, Chicago Blues, Manny's Carwash, The House of
Blues, and Tribecca Blues. Kerry's
music is currently receiving airplay on more than 300 radio
stations across the country.
Contact:
info@kerrykearney.com
Website:
www.kerrykearney.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/kerrykearneyband
Steve
Palopoli
(Member)
"Steve
has been playing fingertstyle guitar since 1995. He is
a member of Long Island Acoustics, an acoustic guitar
duo that performs throughout Long Island and specializes
in providing Cocktail Hour Music and Cocktail Party Entertainment.
You
can visit his website at www.LIAcoustics.com
PATRICK
RUHLMAN (Presenter/Member)
Info:
Patrick Ruhlman is a singer/songwriter
who plays guitar, bass, and keyboard and plays with the
Killer Joe and The Lido Soul Revue
Contact:
allybat@optonline.net
GARY
SCHOENBERGER (Presenter/Member)
Info: Gary is a musician (guitar/keyboard/strumstick/acoustic
license plate), and devotee of the partial (short-cut) capo.
He is a board member of
the
Folk Music Society of Huntington ( www.fmshny.org
),and publishes
Long Island Concert Notes, an e-mail list of concerts
(primarily
folk and acoustic singer-songwriter) in Nassau & Suffolk
Counties.
He
is also one-fifth (keyboard/vocals) of the classic rock
band Still Rockin’
Contact:
gschoenberger@optonline.net
MySpace:
www.myspace.com\stillrockinmusic
Little
Toby Walker (Concert Series)
Toby
gave an outstanding performance for the LIFGC's first concert
series. Afterwards the LIFGC Members got to jam with Toby!
Info:
Award Winning Fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Toby Walker has
appeared in the New
York Times, The London Sunday Times and a variety of music
publications in addition to appearing on several national
radio
and television broadcasts. Known as a musician's musician,
Toby Walker is now endorsed by National Guitars and is
currently a guitar instructor with Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma
Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch.
Toby has just released a new CD entitled ‘Hand Picked’
which
is available after the show.
Contact:
LTW@LittleTobyWalker.com
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/tobyblues
Website:http://www.littletobywalker.com/
GLENN
WEISER (Presenter)
Info:
Glenn Weiser is the author
of four Celtic fingerstyle guitar books and three harmonica
books, and has recorded a new fingerstyle Celtic guitar
CD. He is also a Rounder Records guest artist, a Sing Out!
Magazine columnist and a writer for Metroland, a news weekly
in Albany, NY. He performs Celtic music, blues, old-timey,
and other folk styles.
Contact:
banjoandguitar100@yahoo.com
Website:
http://www.celticguitarmusic.com
