Guitar Festival

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Jamie is one of the masters of contemporary acoustic guitar. With three CD’s under his own name, “Wings of Light,” “Amigos del Corazón,’ and “Reflections” Jamie is a very busy performer and composer, both in the States and abroad. His music is flavored by many styles from jazz and blues to pop and funk. More recently, Jamie has helped form the Acoustic Jazz Quartet, an L.A. based jazz band that features Jamie’s compositions. Their first Naxos Jazz release was distributed worldwide in April, ’99, and a second Acoustic Jazz Quartet “Organic” released in 2001. In 2002 Jamie formed a guitar duo with Duck Baker, and the pair recorded an adventurous and critically acclaimed record of jazz guitar duos titled “Out of the Past”. Jamie continues to perform solo as well.

He has three DVD’s published, two instructional DVD’s out with Hal Leonard Publishing, “Acoustic Fingerpicking” and “Acoustic Guitar Soloing,” and one concert DVD from the “Open Strings” Festival from Osnabrück, Germany, distributed in the states by Mel Bay. He’s written eight books; one featuring his own compositions from the Acoustic Music Records “Amigos del Corazón,” a book of fingerstyle arrangements of jazz standards, a book on harmonic technique, one on Chord Shapes for Hal Leonard, and a series of arrangement books for Solo Guitar; Miles Davis, Standards, Broadway, and Christmas Classics, and was part of the faculty of Musicians Institute in Hollywood for over 30 years, and USC for 7 years. He now teaches at Skagit Valley College in Mt. Vernon WA, and privately in Bellevue and La Conner, his hometown.

Jamie has contributed to several guitar magazines throughout the world. At the Summer NAMM show in Nashville, he was the host for Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s “Acoustic Magic” event at Cafe Milano, and he’s been featured in Chitarre, Italy’s premier guitar magazine as well as Acoustic Guitar in Germany and the US. Jamie is currently preparing material for three new solo records, one on material from the Beatles, one on “Folk Remedies”, and one featuring original material. Since the 80’s, an impressive personal career has been developed, with travel and performance throughout almost all parts of the United States, as well as to Asia and Central America, Brazil, and eight tours of Europe.

A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C. D. Brown is a very active performer throughout the Pacific Northwest, giving an average of 50 concerts a year. Highlights from recent seasons included solo lute and baroque guitar recitals at Early Music Festivals in Berkeley and Cleveland, performing as the soloist in Vivaldi’s “Concerto in D,” and a 10 performance run of Monteverdi’s Ulysses in Seattle and San Francisco. Elizabeth’s first solo recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars. Also active as an ensemble musician, she is a member of Baroque Northwest, La Lira, the Puget Sound Consort and Ayres and Graces, and has appeared in the Early Music Guild’s three baroque opera productions and with various other ensembles. An enthusiastic advocate for the guitar and lute, Elizabeth has given numerous outreach performances at schools, senior centers, and community centers for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society and the Early Music Guild, as well as by arrangement while on tour. She is head of the Guitar and Lute program at Pacific Lutheran University, and has taught at Seattle Pacific University and the Accademia d’Amore (baroque opera workshop, Seattle). See her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/ElizabethCDBrown or for more information visit: www.elizabethcdbrown.com