Andrew V. Craig with Rich Dashnaw

Andrew V.Craig is a singer/songwriter, music teacher and a Tribes Hill member, who’s performed with Pete Seeger, Pat Humphries,Old Dogs,New Tricks and opened for Rod MacDonald. He has performed in the Tarrytown Music Hall, Uptown Coffee House, The Black Cat Cafe,The Bitter End and Lincoln Center.This past December he was invited to sing at the Christopher Street Songwriters Circle. His songs are original acoustic music in the styling of pseudo Bossa Nova, jazz, pop, and folk.

Rich Dashnaw, a resident of Somers, NY, has been around the tri-state area for years as a performer. While primarily having studied classical guitar with Dennis Cinelli, and master classes with Paul O’Dette, Alice Artzt, and Jorge Morel, his love and affinity for jazz has been present throughout his career. Classical composition studies with Ruth Schonthal and Myron Fink have given him a different perspective on his approach to improvisation.
Rich has performed in the Catskills with show bands, in Manhattan doing original contemporary music, with the Windstrum Duo on classical guitar, numerous pit orchestras, and as a club date guitarist all over the Northeast. Rich enjoys being an accompanist in many settings, recently backing up Andy Craig. He has also written over 50 original songs, in addition to many classical works. He has been a guest on The Guitar Show with Mike Byrnes discussing the acoustic guitar and alternate tunings, as well as use of his midi guitar. In terms of guitar influences, Rich counts early George Benson, Frank Zappa, Mike Stern, and Wes Montgomery (among a host of others) as being highly influential. Also, anything played well on any instrument is a source of inspiration. He has an M.A. in Composition from Hunter College.

Performances: 3:00 PM, Upstream Gallery, HOH 

CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/andrewvcraig

Youtube: https://youtu.be/VcvtugMPdSs