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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. Please visit my
buzz page to see what others have said
about my 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.
Please explore the Dusty Strings
Acoustic Guitar Orchestra which has sections for players of all ages and abilities. We
play the music of Mozart, Miles Davis, Beethoven, the Beatles, Bach, Vivaldi, Piazzola,
and many others. I am the founder, arranger and conductor of the DSAGO. New players are always welcome.
I teach
group guitar classes and private lessons in several locations in and around Seattle, Washington.
This Spring and Summer of 2009 I am leading a number of
guitar related workshops
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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