Ed Wright Ambient Guitarist from Norwalk, CT

Award winning solo guitarist (second place and finalist in successive American Fingerstyle Guitar Competitions, Milwaukee WI) "Deft phrasing, chiming tone and muti-faceted melodic sensibility", Guitar Player Magazine Editor in Chief, Michael Molenda Feb 09) "Ed is a superb guitarist who plays in the Segovia style with clarity and finesse. I don't get tired of his sophisticated understated style." Syndicated columnist, Andy Rooney "Soft as snowflakes, crisp as a winters day and clear as a bell perfect." iTunes review "Not only is Ed's playing superb, but his solo arrangements are some of the best I've heard." CDBaby review Ed also performs with an acoustic duo (guitar, bass, and vocals), the band MOJO! (guitar, bass, and drums - deep cuts classic rock), the band Broken Arrow (classic and contemporary rock, blues and rockabilly), and the Irish ensemble Themselves (harp,fiddle,guitar, vocals and percussion) Ed has performed for or with: Greenwich Philharmonia, Greenwich Choral Society, Westchester Chamber Orchestra, American Fingerstyle Guitar Festival, A Little Noon Music, Music at the Top, Rowayton Summer Arts Festival,Crafts America Fine Arts and Crafts Festivals (Wash. D.C., White Plains NY and West Palm Beach FL), Young Audiences of CT, CT Commission on the Arts, American Education Foundation, Bruce Museum, Pepsi, Bear Stearns, United Way, Helmsley Palace, Martha Stewart, The Hole in the Wall Gang (Paul Newman) Recordings include: Acoustic Guitar Solos, The Mirror Rejoices, Cornerstones, Just Imagine and Christmas Guitar Solos (available on CD);soundtrack for the Insignia Films release "Cornerstones" and "American Experience: Seabiscuit" on PBS Publications include "The Piano Music of George Winston Arranged for Solo Guitar" (Hal Leonard Corporation); "Ten Christmas Guitar Solos"; "Music of Albeniz and Granados Arranged for Intermediate Solo Guitar" Elegant, professional, and sophisticated. Classical, contemporary, traditional and original. Acoustic or amplified.

• Wedding Marches | Mendelssohn and Wagner
• Canon in D | Pachelbel
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | Bach
• Ode To Joy | Beethoven
• Spanish Ballad (Romanza) | Anon.
• The Wedding Song(There is Love) | Paul Stookey
• Can You Feel the Love | Lion King
• Circle of Life | Lion King
• One Jump | Alladin
• A whole New World | Alladin
• A Friend Like Me | Alladin
• Under the Sea | Little Mermaid
• Kiss the girl | Little Mermaid
• Hushabye Mountain | Chitty Chitty
• Only Love | Esteban
• Todos Santos | Dan Fogelberg
• The Water is Wide | trad.
• Dream a little Dream of me | Mama Cass
• Til There Was You
• Wonderful World | Sam Cooke
• What a Wonderful World | Louis Armstrong
• Your Song | Elton John
• Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton
• Layla | Eric Clapton
• I Can't Help Falling in Love | Elvis etc
• Tenerife Sea | Ed Sheeran
• Kingdom Come | Coldplay
• I Will Follow You into the Night | Deathcab for Cutie
• A Matter of Time | Vanessa Carlton
• La Vie en Rose
• Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme) | Moricone
• Il Postino | Bacalov
• Cavatina (The Deer Hunter) | Stanley Meyers
• The Entertainer | Scott Joplin
• Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin
• Mercy Mercy Mercy | Joe Zawinul/ Buckinghams
• Salt, Sun and Time | Bruce Cockburn
• She's Always a Woman | Billy Joel
• Time in a Bottle | Jim Croce
• Blackbird | Beatles
• Norwegian Wood | Beatles
• All you need is love | Beatles
• And I Love Her | Beatles
• Shes a Woman | Beatles
• Good Day Sunshine | Beatles
• Yesterday | Beatles
• Eleanor Rigby | Beatles
• Got To Get You Into My Life | Beatles
• Here Comes the Sun | Beatles
• Michelle | Beatles
• Fool on the Hill | Beatles
• While my Guitar Gently Weeps | Beatles
• I Will | Beatles
• If I Fell | Beatles
• Hello Goodbye | Beatles
• In My Life | Beatles
• Bridge Over Troubled Water | Simon and Garfunkel
• Scarborough Fair/Canticle | Simon and Garfunkel
• America | Simon and Garfunkel
• Moondance | Van Morrison
• Whiter Shade of Pale | Procol Harum
• Tell Her No | Zombies
• She's Not there | Zombies
• Time of the Season | the Zombies
• The Gaucho | Steely Dan
• Hey Nineteen | Steely Dan
• Walk Away Renee | The Left Banke
• Never Goin Back | Fleetwood Mac
• (A Rose in) Spanish Harlem | Ben E King
• Groovin | Rascals
• On and On | Steven Bishop?
• You Can Close Your Eyes | James Taylor
• You've got a friend | James Taylor
• Fire and Rain | James Taylor
• Instrumental #2 (One Man Dog | James Taylor
• Jig (One Man Dog) | James Taylor
• Up on the roof | Drifters
• Edelweiss | Sound of Music
• Bus Stop | the Hollies
• Fragile | Sting
• Wrapped Around Your Finger | Police
• Every Breath you take | Police
• Message in a Bottle | Police
• Fields of Gold | Sting
• My Cherie Amour | Stevie Wonder
• Sir Duke | Stevie Wonder
• I Wish | Stevie Wonder
• Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing | Stevie Wonder
• Isn't She Lovely | Stevie Wonder
• Ashokan Farewell | Jay Ungar (The Civil War)
• Wonderland by Night | Burt Kaempfort
• What a Day for a Daydream | Lovin' Spoonful
• I Want You Back | Jackson 5
• I Heard it Through The Grapevine | Marvin Gaye
• Sittin' in Limbo | Jimmy Cliff
• Jamaica Farewell | Trad
• This Time/Kari/ A Natural Thing/ more | Earl Klugh
• Corcovado (Quiet Nights...) | AC Jobim
• One Note Samba | AC Jobim
• Girl From Ipanema | AC Jobim
• Black Orfeus/Menina Flor/Batucada | Luiz Bonfa
• Dance With Me | Orleans
• Southern Man/Cowgirl in The Sand/Harvest Moon | Neil Young
• Glad | Traffic
• Classical Gas | Mason Williams
• If I only Had A Brain | Wizard of Oz
• Hotel California | Eagles
• Byrdland | Joe Zawinul
• Nothing Else Matters | Metallica
• Little Wing/Castles Made of Sand/Wind Cries Mary | Jimi Hendrix
• Good Vibrations | Beachboys
• Wild World | Cat Stevens
• Morning Has Broken | Cat Stevens
• All I Want/Both Sides Now | Joni Mitchell
• Water Song/Embryonic Journey | Jorma Kaukonen
• Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and- Burning | Rev. Gary Davis
• St Louis Blues | WC Handy
• Larry the Logger | Doobie Bros
• Little Martha | Allman Bros
• Rain Song/Babe I'm Gonna Leave You/Black Mountain side/more | Led Zepellin
• Stairway to Heaven | Led Zep
• Sugar Magnolia/ Ripple | The Grateful Dead
• Mona Roy/William Powell/more | Leo Kottke
• Spanish Sections | Granados/Albenix/Tarrega
• Various pieces | George Winston
• Various pieces | Tommy Emmanuel/Chet Atkins/ John Renbourn/ Al Petteway....