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Barry Pollack, Eight String Guitarist
Nationally recognized musician, teacher and author is available to play at your wedding, corporate event, house concert,
soiree or dinner party. Elegant and professional background music at better restaurants, cafes and lounges.
Accepting students of all levels and interests.
Performer

Listen to mp3 samples or visit the
repertoire pages to see
a listing of songs and pieces I enjoy playing. You can also see recent and upcoming
performances
Decades of experience performing in concert halls, rock concerts, restaurants, clubs, weddings and private parties. Played guitar with the Seattle Symphony, the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, and The Portland Opera Company.
Accompaniest for the Joffrey Ballet and Mikahel Baryshnikov.
Opening act for Ray Charles, Jeff Beck, Bo Diddley and Heart.
Educator

Taught hundreds of students from seven to seventy years old in private lessons and classrooms.
I am honored and delighted to be leading the Musicworks
Guitar Orchestra which is open to players of all ages and abilities and where we
will play the music of Mozart, Miles Davis, Beethoven, the Beatles, Bach, Rick James
and many others.
I am also teaching several Group Guitar Classes and private lessons.
Author

Popular Guitar Music, Prentice-Hall, 1986. One of the first books to use transcriptions of popular recorded guitar playing to teach guitar skills and music theory.
About this website

Lauched early September, 2007. Several features are still under construction.
There is much more to come: more music samples,
free guitar lessons, photo and video gallery, expanded performance schedule,
tales from a musician's life, links to my favorite musicans and artists,
and a section on adapting to the eight string guitar. If you are revisiting,
please reload these pages as I am updating often. Please check back soon and let me know what you think of all this. Thanks.

“Mr. Classical Guitar, Seattle.” Eric Sigliano, The Seattle Weekly.
“That boy can play!” Bo Diddley.

Barry plays an eight string classical guitar built by Darren Hippner. 
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