WORLD GUITAR INNOVATOR Matthew Montfort
Guitarist Matthew Montfort is known as a world guitar innovator. He is the leader of the world music group Ancient Future, a skilled music producer, an author, a composer, and a patient teacher. He performs on many instruments, including scalloped fretboard guitar, Glissentar 11 string fretless guitar, electric guitar, flamenco guitar, bass guitar, sitar, charango, mandolin, and gamelan.
Featured Press
GuitarPlayerMag.pdf (1.4 MB)
This five page story from the December 2009 collectible commemorative Les Paul issue of Guitar Player Magazine includes a full page feature with a photo of Matthew Montfort superimposed over psychedelic artwork portraying Jimi Hendrix, an interview, a GuitarPlayer.Com video of Matthew Montfort performing his 'Purple Raga' composition live at Ancient Future's 30th Anniversary Concert, and a lesson entitled "The Music of Jimi Hendrix Applied to Indian Raga," which explains Montfort's musical concepts behind the 'Purple Raga' track on Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar.
Matthew Montfort
Hi-Res Artist Photo
(2 MB, 300 dpi 4.3" x 6.5")
Photo by Julie Marten
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