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Steve Raleigh

Steve Raleigh, guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, makes his home in New York’s Hudson Valley where he teaches music at his home studio in New Paltz NY, as an adjunct music professor at Bard College and at SUNY New Paltz. He is also owner and operator of LWR Productions Recording Studio.

Throughout his career he has worked and toured with many groups including the Steve Raleigh trio, his quintet Inner Door, Judi Silvano, October Project, Evelyn Blakey, Nick Brignola, Darmond Meader (New York Voices), Clint Holmes, Pete Levin, Ira Coleman, Adam Nussbaum, and Tony Martin, as well as opening for Chuck Mangione, and Tommy James to name a few. Steve has been credited as assistant producer on two CD releases on the Evidence record label which featured Pharaoh Sanders and Sam Rivers, and produced numerous records including 2 Charles Lyonhart CD's on his own LWR Productions label. Steve has also had one of his solo guitar arrangements published in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine (Feb 2001), released his third solo CD Collage in 2001, released his 4th with his Jazz Quartet "inner Door" in 2003, a collection of 7 original compositions, the holiday CD "A Christmas Present" in 2005, and a live CD with his band The Llama Dollies in 2007. Steve is also an endorser of D'Addario strings and accessories.

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"...exciting emotional depth...soulful and scintillating" - Stephen Israel, Times Herald Record "...brilliant sense of melody." - Mike Varney, Guitar World Magazine "An Incredible Guitarist" - John Buscarino "very tasty...beautiful harmonic sense" - Tony Mottola

Primary Instrument

Guitar

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Over the years I've come to find that teaching music, passing what I've learned on to others has been a rich and rewarding experience. Not only do I teach guitar and music theory to many students at my personal studio in Newburgh NY, but I am on the teaching staff at The National Guitar Workshop, Rock Camp, SUNY (State University of New York) Orange County, and at the Imperial Guitar & Soundworks music school, Newburgh NY. In the links below you can find a wealth of online reference material including scale forms, chords, theory etc...