“Kristen is a truly electrifying performer. When she has a guitar in her hands, she explodes with music, smiles, inspiration, and the pure joy of the white-hot guitar solo, and everyone in the room is reminded why they love the electric guitar is. It’s always a thrill to watch her play”
– Jude Gold | Director – Guitar Program (GIT) | Musicians Institute
Los Angeles blues sensation Leroy Miller has worked on countless recordings for music’s brightest stars like John Mayer, Macy Gray and Smash Mouth. Leroy has toured all over the world as a supporting act for bands such as Aerosmith and the Dave Mathews Band. He has played venues ranging from The Whiskey A Go-Go in Hollywood to Webster Hall in Manhattan as well as arenas like the PNC Bank Arts Center in NJ and the Molsen Amphitheater in Toronto Canada.
His humble beginning started doing shows at The Roxy in Hollywood eventually landing him a record deal with Geffen Records releasing ‘Nothing Sacred’ produced by Mike Frasier known for his work with Aerosmith and AC/DC. He then signed a deal with Hollywood Records where he co-produced his self titled album ‘Leroy’with Grammy award winning producer Rob Cavallo mixed by Jack Joseph Puig.
Levi Clay is a Glasgow based guitarist specializing in transcription and instruction. Levi has built a decent following in the past 5 years, from his best selling LickLibrary DVDs to his work as a journalist for publications including Premier Guitar Magazine and iGuitar Magazine, or as a personality on Youtube. Don’t be fooled though, Levi is no slouch when it comes to playing! He took his career to the next level in 2015 with the release of two albums. Check out Hellcat Molly’s “Out Of The Ashes” now and find more information on Levi at LeviClay.com
Linda started playing the guitar at the age of four, after hearing Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bookends”. She has toured, recorded, and/or performed with Tracy Chapman, Maia Sharp, Terri Lyne Carrington, Christopher Cross, Sheila E., Carlos Rios, Edwin McCain, Don Was, Jim Keltner, Richard Perry, Leigh Jones, Kirk Whalum, Namie Amuro, Chante Moore, Wayne Brady, Vesta Williams, Thelma Houston, and others.
Linda has been in several TV house bands including “The Roseanne Show”, “She-TV”, and “Dame Edna”. She is a frequent film composer, including director Mark Ryan’s “Through The Cracks” and Judy Minor’s “Anatomy Of A Breakup”. Linda has released two albums. The first, “Pulse”, is an acid jazz instrumental work. Following the events of 2001, Linda released “Sum Blues” with her R&B band Threshold, featuring guest performances by Keb’ Mo’.
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Michael Baugh is a solo instrumental guitarist from Devon, UK.
Miles Aubrey is a multi-talented performer who\’s played guitar on the Grand Ole Opry, acted on Broadway, and been directed in film by Clint Eastwood. Other appearances include the Tonight Show, Tony Awards, Ellen, Seth Meyers and Live with Kelli. As a guitarist, he\’s been featured in All Star Guitar Night and toured the country with major label acts, currently with four-time Grammy nominee Brandy Clark. He also has two Broadway shows under his belt, most notably nine years in the smash hit Jersey Boys. Miles is honored to play Wampler pedals.
Neal Schon was born on an Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family soon after moved to Trenton, New Jersey. Neal picked up his first instrument around the age of five. He was constantly surrounded by jazz and blues due to his parents’ musical talents.
Neal practiced the Oboe, Keys, and of course guitar. When he was still young, his family moved to San Francisco, where Neal has lived for most of his life.
At the age of 15 Neal was asked to join the world famous band Santana and remained as a guitarist in the band for two years. Soon after, he formed Journey. Neal has earned the reputation of being one of the world’s greatest guitarists of his time.
Since performing as a Finalist in ‘Guitarist’ Magazine’s Young Guitarist of the Year competition at Wembley Exhibition Center in 1999 at age 15, Neil has been recording and touring around the world. He performed alongside Elvis’s original band members, Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of Elvis’s “That’s Alright Mama”, in 2004. The next year he appeared on the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury Festival with his original band, BOA, which gained acclaim in the United States.
As a multi-intrumentalist, Neil has worked in many different areas of the musical spectrum from Festivals and Theatre tours, to Pit Work, Weddings, major Sport and Corporate events, as well as almost 3 years as a musician onboard Princess Cruise lines, covering 5 different ships and almost 50 different countries in that time!
In 2017 Neil was relocated to Shanghai, China to join 11 piece mega band “Studio 188” as Guitarist and Vocalist. Since then he has been involved in many different musical projects, performing all over China at major events including The Chinse Grand Prix and the Shanghai Rolex Masters. He has performed at large scale corporate events for clients such as Heineken, Rolex, Speedo, Catepillar, Wirtgen, aswell as the British, American, Swiss, German and Australian Chamber Of Commerce to name a few. In 2017 he also flew out to Melbourne, Australia to perform two shows at the Australian Open tennis tournament!
Amongst the many projects, Neil can also be found as a regular performer at China’s most famous jazz club… “JZ Club”, located in Shanghai, where he is currently based, and can also be seen performing as a demonstrator for Algam China, one of Asia’s biggest distrubtors of musical equipment for some of the worlds biggest brands!
Nicky Moroch comes from a musical family and has had guitar in his hands ever since he could hold one. He actually learned to read music before he could read a book. He joined Return To Forever drummer Lenny Whites’ band at age 20 and started a career as a first call session guitarist soon after. He appears on Countless recordings, TV shows and soundtracks with artists ranging from David Bowie, Vanessa Williams, Madonna, Luther Vandross and Jessica Simpson to David Sandborn, Bob James, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans and Roger Glover of Deep Purple. He continues over 4 decades of studio work and can often be found touring with sax legend David Sanborn as well as his group, the Sideguys.