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Steve Smith has been performing for nearly thirty years in about as many types of musical situations as one can imagine. He has appeared as
a solo artist, bandleader, an in-demand sideman and session player and
producer in traditional bluegrass (his first love), old-time, Celtic, new
acoustic jazz and chamber music. His solo shows incorporate original vocal
and instrumental works and include unique arrangements of traditional and
modern tunes from delicate fingerstyle to hard driving rhythms on mandolin, guitar, mandola and vocals.
Smith has been involved in a number of theatrical productions
including composing the score for the Sam Sheppard play Curse of the
Starving Class. He honed his skills with a stint in music school studying
20th century composition and theory; most recently his music was used in
the PBS film The Bataan Death March, a New Mexico Story and Portraits
of the Southwest.
Most recently Steve appeared on the latest release by guitarist extraordinaire Jim Hurst, "A Box of Chocolates" and produced the CD Bungalow by singer songwriter Bob Einweck, and the long awaited CD from Hard Road "Only So Fast".
In addition to a regular solo touring schedule which has taken him
from Florida to Alaska, the Caribbean to Europe, Smith tours with his group
Steve Smith and Hard Road, The Alan Munde Gazette, and maintains a busy teaching and workshop schedule including ten years as mandolin instructor at Camp Bluegrass (www.campbluegrass.com), the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, and the California Coast Music Camp along with a broad palette of recordings on mandolin, mandola, mandocello and guitar.
Steve currently performs solo or with a number of different groups:
Steve Smith & Hard Road
Alan Munde Gazette
Steve Smith Trio
The Steve Smith Quintet, his instrumental group (original and jazz standards)
Ballyheigue Trio (Irish)
Junior Hot Cell (celtic world fusion) with children's entertainer Dan Crow
Steve has been involved with a number of recordings, including three solo CDs, and appearances with other recording artists. Several of his tunes have been recorded by others.
Steve Smith & Hard Road: Meet Me By the River - DN 454 (2005)
Hard Road - DN 444 (2004)
Desert Night - DN 343 (2000)
Other Places Times and Lives - DN 242 (1996)
Distant Lands - DN 141 (1992)
The Desperados: Till The Cows Come Home, Rio Records (1994)
Cloud Valley: Live in Europe, Strictly Country (1984)
Cloud Valley: A Bluegrass Ensemble, Prime Time Records (1982)
The Nothin' Doin' Band, Prime Time Records (1979)
Tunes recorded by others:
Ocotillos (Butch Baldassari) American Portraits, Sound Art Recordings
Whisker Head's Ride to Lenningrad, Missy Raines My place in the Sun. Co-authored with Raines and Jim Hurst
Guest Appearances:
Scott Gates (2004)
Laura Kemp - May (2004)
Bob Einweck - Soon (2003)
Bill and Pam Gurley- October Winds AMMCD-002 (2002) (With Bruce Hornsby, Tom Espinola, Stephen and Jim Bennett and Jimmy Masters) Stephen Bennett - River-C/RR-22CD - harp mandolin (2001)
Bill Evans - Bill Evans Plays Banjo-Mighty Fine Records 906-3 - mandola (2001)
Charlie Provenza - Gypsy Mandolin - CPMUSIC- guitar (2001)
Brent Moyer - Keep Going On-Brambus 200150-2 mandolin (2001)
Kip Lawrence- Alone With A Song- mandolin (2001)
JR. Hot Cell- Unfenced Land -mandolin, octave mandolin, mandola,guitar (1999)
Bart Trotter - (with Johnny Gimble, Dave Peters, Mark Ruben) guitar, mandolin (1999)
David Brower From "Wood to Song: The Making of a Mandolin". Winner of the Silver Reel award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. A one hour NPR documentary written and produced by David Brower on KRWG-RADIO
Mark Delk - rhythm guitar (BH0002 1999)
Della Bustemonte - rhythm guitar, mandolin (BH0003 1999)
Missy Raines - My Place In the Sun, mandolin, mandocello (1998)
Richard and Rosemary Nichols - The Outlaws a collection of cowboy poetry (origional music for mandolin, mandola, tenor banjo, guitar by Smith) (C101 1996)
Not only is Steve a virtuoso with mandolin, and extremely versatile with other stringed instruments, he has been involved with a number of theatrical productions. His music has been heard...
Theater:
Composed and performed the original score of "Curse of The Starving Class", with Joseph Mancilla
"Cotton Patch Gospel" (music by Harry Chapin)
"The Robber Bride Groom"
Film:
"A New Mexico Story: The Bataan Death March To The Atomic Bomb" (A Documentary By Aaron Wilson) (2002)
"Vaya Con Dios" (HBO)
Commercials:
Jude's Birkenstock Footprints
Enchanted Gardens
Cimarron Health Care
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