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Guitar Sessions Concert: Jon Finn Group at Berklee Performance Center

Courtesy of Etix | Posted on July 24, 2019

Where

Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA
Map
617 747 2261

When

Thu, August 15, 2019
11:30 pm

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About

A guitarist since age six, Jon Finn has been a professional musician for most of his life. Today, he's been repeatedly acknowledged within the international community of musicians as being a clear leader in modern rock guitar as a performer, composer and educator. Joining the guitar faculty at Berklee in 1988, he started the Jon Finn Group later that same year. To date, they have three internationally released CDs, Don't Look So Serious (Legato Records 1994), Wicked (SEP Records 2000), "Bull in a China Shop" (SEP Records 2010) several independent releases, and countless performances worldwide under their belts. For over three years, Jon wrote a monthly instructional feature for a national magazine called Guitar. Jon has also authored several books for Mel Bay Publications: Advanced Modern Rock Guitar Improvisation, One Guitar, Many Styles, Blues/Rock Improvisation, Riffs: Volume One, and a few more currently in production. In his freelance pursuits, he's played guitar for the national touring companies of many contemporary musical theater productions such as Rent, Aida, Mamma Mia, Hairspray, High School Musical, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Copacabana, and many others. Today Jon frequently performs and records with the Boston Pops Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. With them he's performed with Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Rockapella, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Natalie Cole, Carly Simon, Bernadette Peters, New York Voices and many others. He's been involved in a plethora of concerts and recording sessions, including 6 CDs (two of which were Grammy nominated), 8 US concert tours, and one tour in Asia. ...

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