17 Facts About Trace Bundy

Trace Bundy is an American acoustic guitar player who lives and performs in Boulder, Colorado.

Trace Bundy is known to fans as "The Acoustic Ninja" for his legato and finger tapping skills.

Trace Bundy was showcased and eventually discovered on websites such as YouTube and Facebook.

Trace Bundy was born in Austin, Minnesota and later moved to the small town of Buena Vista, Colorado.

Trace Bundy gave up using a guitar pick, and instead grew his fingernails long to develop his fingerpicking style.

Trace Bundy introduced a harmonic slapping technique, the use of various effects pedals, and capos.

Trace Bundy met Jonah Werner in high school and started playing with him at a local coffee shop in Buena Vista.

Trace Bundy then met Tim Thornton from Newcomers Home and started playing old Dylan and Cat Stevens tunes.

Trace Bundy moved to Boulder, Colorado and attended the University of Colorado where he earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in civil engineering, and then taught at the university for a further two years.

Trace Bundy's next recording, containing all original songs, was 2000's Solomon's Splendor.

Some more popular clips are Trace Bundy covering the Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way", and Pachelbel's Canon performed on an acoustic guitar using the fingertapping technique.

Trace Bundy acquired the nickname "Acoustic Ninja" after a review of one of his shows in a Colorado newspaper was titled "Attack of the Acoustic Ninja".

In 2008, Trace Bundy released Missile Bell, a two-part project consisting of a studio CD, a live CD, and a DVD filmed live at the Boulder Theater in November 2007.

In 2005, Trace Bundy discovered a finger-picking guitar prodigy when he saw a YouTube video of a nine-year-old Korean boy Sungha Jung playing Trace Bundy's version of Pachelbel's Canon.

Trace Bundy twice toured South Korea and he would get in touch with Jung and have him open Trace Bundy's shows.

In 2009 Trace Bundy flew Jung to the United States and the two did a US West Coast tour.

In 2014, Trace Bundy won the ESPN SportsCenter Fan Jam contest while he performed the program's theme tune live on the show on March 4,2014 at ESPN's studios in Bristol, Connecticut.