Meeting details:
Main presenter from 7 to 8 (see below)
Breakout sessions from 8 to 9 (Rookies, Minors & Majors)
Main presenter from 7 to 8 (see below)
Breakout sessions from 8 to 9 (Rookies, Minors & Majors)
Main Presenter: Chad Stivers
Chad started out his guitar journey as an electric rock and blues player, studying the likes of the Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and all the classics.Later on he dove into the acoustic side of things, learning instrumentals by Mark Hanson, Leo Kottke, Eric Johnson, and others. Chad started playing with the Tampa Bay Fingerstyle Guitar Guild and has continued to play with them for over five years now. During this time he met Dr. Jimmy Moore, classical guitar professor at St. Petersburg College and Florida Southern College, who refined his playing with the techniques of Christopher Parkening, and gave him a taste of classical guitar repertoire and studies. Furthermore, Chad would go on to study with LaRue Nickelson, jazz guitar professor at the University of Southern Florida, who gave him years of invaluable musical guidance while he took up singing and continued to dive deep into different styles of acoustic guitar music. Some of his favorites are Bert Jansch, James Taylor, Lindsey Buckingham, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, and more recently getting into bluegrass with Tony Rice. Chad plays around the Tampa Bay, Clearwater, St Petersburg area and had the great honor of opening for the world-renowned fingerstyle virtuoso Richard Smith at Seven C Music in March.
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Chad started out his guitar journey as an electric rock and blues player, studying the likes of the Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and all the classics.Later on he dove into the acoustic side of things, learning instrumentals by Mark Hanson, Leo Kottke, Eric Johnson, and others. Chad started playing with the Tampa Bay Fingerstyle Guitar Guild and has continued to play with them for over five years now. During this time he met Dr. Jimmy Moore, classical guitar professor at St. Petersburg College and Florida Southern College, who refined his playing with the techniques of Christopher Parkening, and gave him a taste of classical guitar repertoire and studies. Furthermore, Chad would go on to study with LaRue Nickelson, jazz guitar professor at the University of Southern Florida, who gave him years of invaluable musical guidance while he took up singing and continued to dive deep into different styles of acoustic guitar music. Some of his favorites are Bert Jansch, James Taylor, Lindsey Buckingham, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, and more recently getting into bluegrass with Tony Rice. Chad plays around the Tampa Bay, Clearwater, St Petersburg area and had the great honor of opening for the world-renowned fingerstyle virtuoso Richard Smith at Seven C Music in March.
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