Teachers old and new

Greg Glassman has been playing guitar and bass professionally for the last 30 years. Equally at home musically in styles ranging from folk to jazz, Greg has performed in a variety of venues spanning clubs to cruise ships to concert halls. He has recorded for radio, television and numerous album projects. Presently, he enjoys performing with a host of Puget Sound jazz musicians and in his own group, Like Minds, with fellow guitarist and teacher Ron Peters.

Concurrently, Greg has taught private guitar and bass lessons for the last 25 years on Seattle.s Eastside and held adjunct teaching posts at Cascadia and Bellevue Community Colleges.

Chris Grampp has been playing jazz, blues, rock, and traditional music for over 30 years. He leads his own band, Club Sandwich, and has played with Lost Weekend Western Swing Revue, Barbara Danešs Good News Bonanza Band, and performed as a solo guitarist throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris has studied with Tuck Andress, Warren Nunes, Davis Ramey, Howard Roberts, and George Barnes. He frequently teaches at the California Coast Music Camp and the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, and is a contributor to Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

Clive, born and raised in Manchester, England, is an accomplished singer, musician, and record producer. His start in the music business was as the leader of Any Trouble, a band that made five albums and performed hundreds of gigs but which broke up at the end of 1984. Clive then released his first solo record, Strange Persuasions. The record featured the voice of Christine Collister, and between 1985 and 1992, Gregson & Collister formed a partnership that Rolling Stone called "the state of the art in British folk-rock". Throughout this period Clive was also a member of the Richard Thompson Band and in demand as a record producer and session musician. In September, 1996 Clive travelled to Dublin to take part in sessions for a new Nanci Griffith CD, Other Voices, Too. The following February he was nominated for a Nashville Music Award in the Artist/Songwriter category. When not on the road, Clive is busy in the studio, playing on album projects for Boo Hewerdine, Ian Gomm, and Andy West among others. The new millenium saw Clive join forces with Boo for their first UK tour as a duo, more Trio dates, a guest appearance with Nanci Griffith & The Atlanta Symphony, various solo summer festivals, and more session work.

Adie Grey performs traditional and contemporary American Folk music, accompanying herself on mountain dulcimer and guitar. An accomplished singer and songwriter, she has released 3 highly acclaimed albums of her own, and has appeared as a guest vocalist, on stage and recording with numerous other country, folk and pop artists (Sarah Evans, John Hartford, Jo-El Sonnier, Vonda Shepard, others). In addition to her live performances, Adie teaches dulcimer and singing at festivals and folk centers around the country, and is a founding board member of ARME, an organization that provides free roots music education to area schools.

Sara Grey - is an American singer, banjo player and song collector, who is immersed in the song traditions of both sides of the Atlantic. She lived in Scotland for 28 years, She also travelled extensively through the U.S. and Canada, performing and participating in workshops and summer-schools. She became very aware of how easy it is for people to become insular in their appreciation of music and how important it is for people to see that as songs travelled they became part of U.S. culture too. Her passionate interest is to maintain and strengthen the links between Celtic and American culture.