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Ron Cooley's
career as a guitarist and composer spans five decades.
Early influences were the Beatles, Chet Atkins, Andre
Segovia and a multitude of jazz artists such as Wes
Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. Ron has studied with
guitarists Mick Goodrick, Eliot Fisk, Oscar Ghiglia and
Ricardo Iznaola and has performed on countless stages in
the United States, Canada and Europe. |
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highlights include performing on NBC's Today
Show and Tonight with Jay Leno, ABC's
Good Morning America, the Regis and
Kathy Lee Show and for President Clinton at the
National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Washington
DC with the Mannheim Steamroller.
He has
appeared at the Wolftrap Theater in DC in the "Yellowstone
Music of Nature" concerts and also as a solo artist
at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In the 70's,
he appeared on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert,
NBC's Midnight Special and Nashville's
Grand Ole Opry as guitarist for the country artist C.W.
McCall.
To
date Ron has six solo recordings spanning an eclectic
blend of instrumental jazz, pop, classical and
contemporary acoustic guitar compositions. He currently
is working on his seventh major project.
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