MAIN PRESENTER
Bret Alexander
Website: https://bretalexanderonline.com
Bret is a singer/songwriter/producer based in Northeastern Pennsylvania. His career began as a studio engineer in the late '80s. Here he met the members of what would become the band The Badlees. The Badlees were signed to Polydor/A&M in 1995 with Bret playing the role of principle songwriter/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist. Their self-produced album "River Songs" yielded two hit singles, "Fear of Falling" and "Angeline Is Coming Home" in 1996. He has toured and shared the stage with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Bob Seger, The Allman Brothers, Edwin McCain, Live, The Gin Blossoms, and countless others. His work has been featured on The Winter Olympic Games, MTV, The Real World, Extra, The VMAs, and various films and TV shows.
Today, he continues to perform solo and with his new band, Gentleman East as well as producing, writing, and performing with several other independent artists. In 2015, Bret was the recipient of The Lifetime Achievement Award from The Electric City Music Conference. Current projects include contributing music for the film “All In Time” and music supervision for the BMX film “Heroes Of Dirt”. Bret released the collaborative effort, Alexander Leaman's “Second Story Music” online in July of 2016. An acoustic compilation with songwriter Lex Zaleta called "Two Souls In Flight" was released online in May 2017.
Breakout Sessions:
Based on input from the members, I am going to make a slight change in our format. The first hour will still be for our main performer to do their thing, from 7:30 to 8 we will have our breakout learning sessions, and from 8-8:30 we’ll come back together and play songs from our GLP Member Set-List. This way we can all enjoy some music, learn some music and then play some music together.
Rookies: Leader Red Jimenez
Minors: Frank Zini will lead a Set List song. BTW, if you have a song you would like to add to our set-list, please see John Titanski. He is going to be the person that helps to keep this list, what songs, in what keys, how you can get a copy… that kinda info. So far we have: Knockin on Heaven’s Door – Gloria – 12-Bar Blues (Sweet Home Chicago…) – Wish You Were Here - Pink Houses
Majors: Majors tend to hang out with the Main Presenter to delve deeper into what they do.
Bob VanDerheyden – Chapter Leader / Guitar Instructor
570-499-6453 - cell
GuitarLeaguePoconos@gmail.com
www.guitarleague.com
Bret Alexander
Website: https://bretalexanderonline.com
Bret is a singer/songwriter/producer based in Northeastern Pennsylvania. His career began as a studio engineer in the late '80s. Here he met the members of what would become the band The Badlees. The Badlees were signed to Polydor/A&M in 1995 with Bret playing the role of principle songwriter/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist. Their self-produced album "River Songs" yielded two hit singles, "Fear of Falling" and "Angeline Is Coming Home" in 1996. He has toured and shared the stage with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Bob Seger, The Allman Brothers, Edwin McCain, Live, The Gin Blossoms, and countless others. His work has been featured on The Winter Olympic Games, MTV, The Real World, Extra, The VMAs, and various films and TV shows.
Today, he continues to perform solo and with his new band, Gentleman East as well as producing, writing, and performing with several other independent artists. In 2015, Bret was the recipient of The Lifetime Achievement Award from The Electric City Music Conference. Current projects include contributing music for the film “All In Time” and music supervision for the BMX film “Heroes Of Dirt”. Bret released the collaborative effort, Alexander Leaman's “Second Story Music” online in July of 2016. An acoustic compilation with songwriter Lex Zaleta called "Two Souls In Flight" was released online in May 2017.
Breakout Sessions:
Based on input from the members, I am going to make a slight change in our format. The first hour will still be for our main performer to do their thing, from 7:30 to 8 we will have our breakout learning sessions, and from 8-8:30 we’ll come back together and play songs from our GLP Member Set-List. This way we can all enjoy some music, learn some music and then play some music together.
Rookies: Leader Red Jimenez
Minors: Frank Zini will lead a Set List song. BTW, if you have a song you would like to add to our set-list, please see John Titanski. He is going to be the person that helps to keep this list, what songs, in what keys, how you can get a copy… that kinda info. So far we have: Knockin on Heaven’s Door – Gloria – 12-Bar Blues (Sweet Home Chicago…) – Wish You Were Here - Pink Houses
Majors: Majors tend to hang out with the Main Presenter to delve deeper into what they do.
Bob VanDerheyden – Chapter Leader / Guitar Instructor
570-499-6453 - cell
GuitarLeaguePoconos@gmail.com
www.guitarleague.com