1. Tony Furtado was born on October 18,1967 and is an American singer-songwriter, banjoist, and guitarist.
10 Facts About Tony Furtado
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Tony Furtado took up the banjo at age 12, inspired by the Beverly Hillbillies television show and a sixth-grade music report.
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Tony Furtado studied music and art at California State, Hayward.
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Tony Furtado first attracted national attention in 1987, when he won the National Bluegrass Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas.
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In 1990, Tony signed a recording deal with Rounder Records, one of the country's preeminent independent record companies.
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Tony Furtado is a tireless road musician who performs in a variety of formats: solo, in a duo, or trio or with his full five-person band.
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Tony Furtado has toured with such legendary musicians as Gregg Allman and with such esteemed slide guitarists as David Lindley, Derek Trucks, and Sonny Landreth.
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Tony Furtado has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival and countless others.
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Tony Furtado is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumental-ist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef.
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Tony Furtado's picking is rapid-fire quick, sharp and clear, and puts him in the school of Bela Fleck and David Grisman.