Concerts Howard Slavin & Doug Switzer (jazz) Neil Haverstick (rock, blues) Dave Beegle (fingerstyle acoustic and electric) Larry Sandburg (folk/ blues) Andrew Thomas Harling (classical, pop, blues, rock) Howard Slavin & Doug Switzer Rebop Mountain Enterprises P.O. Box 40968 Denver, CO 80204-0968 email jazzguitar2001@hotmail.com web: http://www.rebopmountain.20m.com/ Howard Slavin is a "hippie from the 60's" who grew up in the New York City "folk" and "rock" scene. As a teen he traveled the college circuit and either solo, or with his band "Captain Jet and the Amazing Electric Space Commandos", performed on the same bill with the likes of Jackson Browne, Tom Rush and the Blue Oyster Cult. His musical career was interrupted by graduate school and law school but music has remained the essential thread of his life. He has studied jazz either clinically or privately with notables, including, Dale Bruning, Hugh Ragin, Jack Wilkins, and David Baker, and performs regularly with Doug Switzer and the Colorado Jazz Workshop. Doug Switzer has been playing jazz guitar since the mid-70's in various settings from duos to big bands. He has performed at locations throughout the mid-west including the "Bop Shop" in Chicago. He has studied privately with guitarists Dale Bruning and Tal Farlow, and with alto saxophonist Lee Konitz. He has also attended master classes conducted by guitarists Joe Pass, Herb Ellis and Chuck Wayne. Neil Haverstick P.O Box 150271 Lakewood, CO 80215 phone: 303-231-0063 email microstick@msn.com web: http://www.microstick.net/ Neil Haverstick was born on September 22, 1951, in St. Louis, Missouri, and started playing guitar in 1965, being highly moved by the music of the Beatles, Yardbirds, Cream, and the general musical atmosphere of the 1960's. Haverstick is a guitarist, composer, author, and instructor... here's a few essentials for you press folks... As a guitarist, the Denver Post called him "one of the most sought after session players in town." Haverstick has performed zillions of gigs, such as playing and recording with the Colorado Symphony, including appearances with Judy Collins, Diahann Carroll, Tommy Tune, Ferrante and Teicher, and Bill Conti. He has also played in orchestras backing such artists as Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Charley Pride, and others.With his own bands, he has opened shows for B.B.King, Steve Miller,and King Sunny Ade; he has also backed up blues greats Jim Schwall and Joe Houston. As a freelance guitarist he has played blues, jazz, classical, country, flamenco, and folk, as well as plays (Man of La Mancha, Grease, Always Patsy Cline, and A Dream Play,(at the Cleveland Playhouse), with noted director Pavel Dobrusky) and many private functions. He has also appeared on numerous CD projects by Denver artists, including Clay Kirkland and Mary Stribling. As a composer, Haverstick won Guitar Player magazine's 1992 Ultimate Guitar Competition(Experimental Division) with a 19 tone piece, "Spider Chimes." He also won the 1996 arts Innovation Award in Denver for another 19 tone song, "Jimmy and Joe," and the 1999 Composition Fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts. He has 4 CD's of original music available, "The Gate," "Acoustic Stick," "Other Worlds," and "If The Earth Was a Woman," featuring music in new tuning systems of 19 and 34 notes per octave, as well as fretless guitar. His Microstock festival is in it's 7th year, and he has performed at concerts in New York, Los Angeles, El Paso, and Albuquerque. Guitar Player mag said of his compositions, "Bold and daring, Haverstick ventures into distant aural galaxies." As an author, Haverstick has written for Guitar Player and Cadence, and has written two music theory books. "The Form of No Forms" was praised by the late studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco, who called it "A great book. I am still learning with Neil." Jazz giant Joe Pass said, "I feel this book offers a new insight into not only playing the guitar, but music and how to understand it. A real book." Neil's latest book, "19 Tones:A New Beginning," is a look at the 19 tone system of tuning which Haverstick has been working in since 1989. As an instructor, Haverstick has taught hundreds of students, both privately and in classes. Dave Beegle 1151 Eagle Dr. #324 Loveland, CO 80537-8020 phone: 970-613-8879 email Info@HapiSkratch.Com web: http://www.davebeegle.com/ Sure, Dave Beegle plays guitar. In fact he plays guitar so well that peers such as Phil Keaggy calls him "one of the most creative and accomplished guitarists I've met." Progression Magazine labeled Beegle "a guitarist's guitar player" and HM Magazine simply called him "just phenomenal." But Beegle is not "just" a guitarist. He is also a composer, a producer, a teacher and a musical activist remaining on the cutting edge of contemporary music. Hailing from the robust state of Colorado, Beegle makes an inspired sound that delights music fans willing to look beyond the fickle trends of pop. Dave Beegle has a brand-new album featuring the Dave Beegle Acoustic Band, a unit including bassist Mike Olson, drummer Matt Henderson, percussionist Erik Meyer and guitarist Aaron Lee. Guest percussionist Christian Teele adds significantly to the overall rhythmic expression of this recording. The group has been performing together for several years and has created a distinctive world-music sound as a result. The CD is a blend of world and ethno-alternative fusion with a hearty kick of rock-n-roll inspired energy, leaving this progressive acoustic contribution in a unique musical atmosphere sure to interest those with exotic and sophisticated tastes. From Spanish and Flamenco melodies to Middle Eastern and Balkan flavored arrangements, the Dave Beegle Acoustic Band will take you on a journey 'Beyond the Desert' to a place of tuneful bliss. Where it all began, however, was with Beegle's electric guitar outlet, Fourth Estate. This groundbreaking power trio led the charge of progressive rock in Colorado in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. To this day, Beegle still books Fourth Estate gigs, playing with Kenny James and Matt Henderson on drums and Mike Olson on bass, and Fourth Estate's instrumental music remains dramatic, inspiring and exotic. New and old Fourth Estate fans are currently enjoying the re-release of the band's debut CD, "Finesse and Fury," re-mastered by rock veteran Stevin McNamara. A new release, "Dustbuster Demos," digs back into the group's earliest recordings to uncover some forgotten gems. Also, Fourth Estate's electric masterpiece, "See What I See," featuring their most challenging work on record, has been reissued to offer fans the opportunity to hear it all. But electric rock has not been Beegle's only means of expression. All along, as a parallel career, he has been playing acoustic guitar as a solo act, in duo formats and as a pivotal part of the innovative acoustic-based group, the Beegle-Olson-Quist Trio. In the year 2000, Beegle released "A Year Closer," an album that explores Flamenco and other world music styles with solo acoustic recordings and the first tracks by the Dave Beegle Acoustic Band. It makes sense that so much musical knowledge has been put to work on a wide diversity of other projects. In fact, "Clear the Tracks" is a CD release that pulls together recordings Beegle has done solo and with several band groupings, including Artifact Symphony and Blinddog Smokin'. On stage, Beegle continues to gig with his classic rock band, the Jurassicasters. But also add Beegle's tremendous output as a producer. He has recently produced a new album for Christian acoustic artist Danny Oertli, an alternative rock worship album titled "Live For Heaven," as well as music by contemporary Christian group Simple Truth, the new band helmed by Colorado guitarist Mike Lopez called GasHead, and Montana singer-songwriter Bob Hollister. Of course, Beegle not only sits on the producer's side of the glass, but also appears as a guest artist on many of the recordings, playing both guitar and keyboards. Dave Beegle also teaches- when he has time. He also continues to demonstrate the Transperformance Automatic Tuning Guitar, featuring the innovative Digital Tuning System. The device allows guitarists to access thousands of tunings at the touch of a finger. This groundbreaking technology has attracted some of the great guitarists of our era, including Joe Perry, Jimmy Page and Graham Nash. But Beegle was the first to record with it, on "Finesse and Fury," and to this day, he still introduces the innovative instrument at conventions and special events. Transperformance is currently developing a low cost version of the DTS that can be installed into other guitars, hinting at a whole new era for the electric guitarists of the world. So go ahead, call Dave Beegle a guitarist. But in this case, the guitarist is only part of the more complete musician- one who lives and breathes music. That's why Guitar Magazine declared that Dave Beegle is "a one-man guitar army." That's why this artist, though he has done plenty, may only be starting to scratch the surface. Beegle continues to play in the Colorado region as well as touring throughout several regions of the US. Hear him live, or hear him on record, the results are the same- awe and respect for a special musician that Great Guitar Sites on the Web called "one of the most renowned underground guitarists of our time." Larry Sandberg 7005 E. Louisiana Ave. Denver, CO 80224 phone/fax 303-753-6633 Larry HS@aol.com Larry Sandberg grew up musically during the folk music boom of the early sixties, performing on the east coast coffeehouse folk music circuit and in college, club, festival, and concert venues. Although his degree is in the humanities, he has also pursued musical studies; both informally (by association with old masters of traditional music) and formally (jazz studies at the Berklee College of Music, with Bill Bell at Alameda College, and with Dale Bruning in Denver; classical guitar with Jack Buckingham at Alameda College). He has been a music teacher, full- or part-time, privately or with institutional affiliations, since 1965, teaching both beginners and advanced students of all ages. While he is experienced in numerous areas of music, he is especially a master of American traditional styles including blues, bluegrass, melodic fingerpicking, and old time country music. More recently he has been working on adapting jazz and pop standards to his style. In 1972, Sandberg was a charter artist on Kicking Mule Records, the record company specializing in virtuoso steel-string guitar music. He appeared on the LPs Contemporary Ragtime Guitar and Some People Who Play Guitar Like Others Don't. The following year he moved to Denver, where he taught guitar at Denver Community College, Metropolitan State College, and the Denver Folklore Center while performing regularly. Returning to the east coast, he appeared off-Broadway in 1979 as an actor-guitarist in the Actors Equity Showcase production of Panhandle, a musical starring Bruce Willis and with music by Anne Phillips, set in the Texas farm country of the Depression years. During the eighties Sandberg performed occasionally while working as an editor at Music Sales, Inc., a leading publisher of music instruction books (1979-80). He then headed marketing communications and public relations for Theodore Presser Company, America's largest independent publisher of classical and educational music and North American agent for many of Europe's leading classical music publishers (1981-88). Sandberg returned to Denver in 1990. He now performs occasionally (including composing music for an installation at the Denver Art Museum); teaches guitar at the Swallow Hill School of Music, and has recorded some of his favorite arrangements and compositions. In 1999 he began teaching part-time in the music department of the University of Colorado at Denver. His upper-level courses include Social and Political Implications of American Music and Music of the Popular Culture, two social history courses which he was hired to teach on the basic of his graduate education in comparative literature, with a focus on intellectual history. In addition, he also has taught courses in American Roots Music and freshman Music Appreciation. Larry Sandberg is also known as an expert on American music and on the guitar, having written numerous books and articles for major publishers and music magazines. Books include The Folk Music Sourcebook (2 editions), Chords and Tunings for Fretted Instruments, Complete Banjo Repair, The Acoustic Guitar Guide (2 editions), and (scheduled for spring, 2002) Traditional American Guitar Styles. He has written for Acoustic Guitar and Guitar World Acoustic magazines, among others. In addition, he is proprietor of Larry Sandberg Creative Services, supplying marketing communications to clients ranging from small businesses and arts organizations to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. In October, 1994 Sandberg participated in the experimental Festival Follies troupe of New Vaudeville entertainers organized by the Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Office to present performances and workshops to U. S. and local national children on military bases in England, Scotland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Spain. The experiment was successful and Sandberg and other members of the troupe were invited to return for tours in October, 1995, and April, 1996. During the course of his career Sandberg has performed with a diverse range of artists including Artie and Happy Traum, Judy Roderick, Charles Sawtelle, Spencer Bohren, Mary Flower, Rich Moore, Molly O'Brien, Tim O'Brien, Nick Forster, Peter Wernick, John Phillips, Vicki Taylor, Dick Weissman, Erik Darling, Brownie McGhee, Harry Tuft, Ed Trickett, David Amram, Elaine Brown, Pat Donohue, Bonnie Phipps, Oscar Brand, David Cohen (of Country Joe and the Fish), and Danny Kalb (of the Blues Project). He has opened shows as a soloist for Dave van Ronk, Lightnin' Hopkins, John McCutcheon, and Les McCann and as a band member for Little Richard, Asleep at the Wheel, and Commander Cody, among others. Andrew Thomas Harling web: Andrew Thomas Harling CDs Guitarist Andrew Thomas Harling began his musical training at the age of 14. He went on to receive a degree from the Musicians Institute in California and a scholarship from The University of Denver. He has studied with such virtuosos as Sharon Isbin, Ricardo Iznaola, and Andrew York and performed in notable venues as the Aspen Music Festival. The music of Andrew Thomas Harling combines the soft tones of guitar with familiar melodies to create recordings that are always pleasant and soothing.