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In this episode of the ArtistWorks Music Roundtable, our Director of Content and Production, Marcus Luscombe, is joined by world-renowned multi-instrumentalist and ArtistWorks harmonica instructor, Howard Levy, and critically acclaimed bass guitar guru, Victor Wooten. Together, Howard and Victor discuss their musical backgrounds (particularly how Victor got his start playing in his family’s band), how they first met and began playing together in Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, and the qualities that made Béla’s iconic jazz-fusion super-group so unique.

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In this episode of the ArtistWorks Music Roundtable, our Director of Content and Production, Marcus Luscombe, is joined by the latest addition to the ArtistWorks faculty, world-renowned acoustic guitarist Andy McKee, and fellow fingerstyle guitar virtuoso and TrueFire and JamPlay instructor, Trevor Gordon Hall.

Together, Andy and Trevor discuss their experiences touring together and teaching guitar clinics around the globe. They also share the characteristics of the acoustic guitar that inspired them to initially pick up the instrument, the events that drew them together as musical contemporaries, and more.

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In this episode of the ArtistWorks Music Roundtable, our Director of Content and Production, Marcus Luscombe, is joined by world-renowned banjo player and ArtistWorks bluegrass banjo instructor, Tony Trischka, and critically acclaimed music educator and fiddle virtuoso, Kenny Kosek. Together, Tony and Kenny discuss their experiences sharing the stage as part of the bluegrass outfit Breakfast Special, as well as early bluegrass festivals, the culture surrounding them, and how they’ve evolved over the decades. They also recount a few of their favorite shows they performed together, their touring shenanigans, the time they both met Bob Dylan, and more.

In this episode of the ArtistWorks Music Roundtable, our Director of Content and Production, Marcus Luscombe, is joined by critically acclaimed guitarist and ArtistWorks blues guitar instructor, Keith Wyatt, and world-renowned music educator and jazz guitar virtuoso, Don Mock. Together, they discuss the origins of the Guitar Institute of Technology (where Keith and Don both taught), their shared history as music educators, how guitar learning methods have evolved over the decades, and their musical development as guitarists in Los Angeles.

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In this inaugural episode of the ArtistWorks Music Roundtable, our Director of Content and Production, Marcus Luscombe, is joined by two of our mandolin instructors—world-renowned bluegrass mandolin and multi-style instrumentalist, Mike Marshall, and classical mandolin icon, Caterina Lichtenberg. Together, they discuss their favorite instruments, what drew them both to the mandolin, a few stories from their time touring, and the importance of the number “2” in their personal and musical lives.