One Man Funk Jazz Fusion Band Fusiontunes

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"Fusiontunes" as he is called on stage,  is a one man Funk/Jazz Fusion band. He was born in 1963 in Booneville, California and moved to the Ozark Mountains in Northwest Arkansas at the age of 3. He was brought up in a musical family and started playing fiddle at a very young age. In 1981 he went to work playing with the Country Music Theatre Shows in Branson, Missouri allowing him to perform with several well-known acts, including Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Dolly Pardon, and Box Car Willie. During this time he also toured with various Theatre Show Bands.

He also played several different theme parks in the area such as Silver Dollar City, DogPatch, and Sheppard of the Hills.  He also won several state fiddling Championships in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kentucky, and was getting known in the Bluegrass circles. 

After loosing to the cold weather every year, he finally moved to the tropics of Florida in 1987. The first Band he found was a very good bluegrass group out of central Florida called the Prospectors. The Prospectors were a very competitive band. They were engaged in some sort of Band Contest every weekend. They would travel all over the country for a fiddle contest or a banjo contest. The contest world became a way of life for Fusiontunes. During his 6-year stint with the prospectors he had won 18 additional State Fiddling Championships in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

Fusiontunes music was evolving into something that you couldn't call bluegrass. Soon he left the Prospectors to look for his calling. This is where things started taking a different path. He burned his old fiddle and went out and bought a new 5-string electric violin. Free from microphones and able to be heard among the "electric" instruments, he was able to experiment with all kinds of jazz, funk, rock, and blues bands along the east coast.

After several years of touring with various bands, he eventually formed his own group and began to generate a following with his own show of Original Jazz Fusion Instrumentals.

He writes captivating originals combining all styles of music to form a true fusion style of improvisation. His music is explosive with high energy improv's and screaming lead work.

Recently Fusiontunes was financed for a CD project of his original music and began the tremendous task of producing a CD.

Fusiontunes works alone, playing each instrument as needed and is also engineering the CD. He plays many different instruments such as:

5-String Electric Violin:
Funk, Rock, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Screaming leads. Explosive Improvisations..!! You wont believe it until you hear it. 23 State Championships and 2 National Championships.

Custom 5-String Electric Mandolin: Is it a guitar..?? Or an Electric Mandolin..?? See if you can tell the difference.. Ripping leads that range from "Joe Pass" soft jazz tones to "John McLaughlin" rock fusion leads. You wont hear any "Bill Monroe" out of  "this" mandolin. Jazz Guitar: jazz and Latin, Rock, Blues rhythms spawned from hundreds of bands along the east coast...

Electric Bass:
Funk bass grooves that are reminiscent of funk masters known the world over.. If you like Funk bass, these grooves will Funk you up.

Keyboards:
Great sounds from the Kurzweil K-2000. Midi it up to the midi violin and its unstoppable.

Percussion:
Not your average drum grooves. African and funk blended into a tasteful fusion of many styles.....