Tim May & Steve Smith LIVE at Star City Studios

Name: Tim May & Steve Smith LIVE at Star City Studios
Start: 2024-07-12T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-07-12T21:30:00-06:00
Location: 120 West Castellano Drive,#suite a,El Paso,79912,US

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

120 West Castellano Drive,#suite a,El Paso,79912,US | El Paso, TX

Flatpicker, Tim May, and Top Country Mandolin Player, Steve Smith, take over Star City. Enjoy the sound of Blue Grass like never before!
Flatpicker Tim May has been working in the Nashville area for over 20 years as a sideman, session player, band member and performer. Higher profile projects have included touring with Patty Loveless and John Coran, and working as a regular on the Grand Ole Opry with Mike Snider. Tim was the solo guitarist on Charlie Daniels' recording of I'll Fly Away, which was nominated for the Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammy in
2005. That same year he was session leader on the critically acclaimed Moody Bluegrass album (he later played on Moody Bluegrass Il as well). The Nashville Scene selected Tim in the Best Instrumentalist category in their 2012 Reader's Choice Poll.
PK Thompson Guitars, Shubb Capos, Elixir Strings, Benedetto Guitars, L.R. Baggs Pickups and Pre-amps and Breedlove Guitars all have presented professional endorsements to Tim, a serious nod to his talents.
Steve Smith is not only known as one of this country's top mandolin players but also as an outstanding educator. Along with his work with the Roots/Bluegrass group The Hard Road Trio, The duo Tim May and Steve Smith and the Alan Munde Gazette, Steve has been on faculty at the California Coast Music Camp, DNA acoustic music camp, the new Southest Mandolin Camp, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Music Camp, Colorado Roots Music Camp, Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp, Zoukfest and Camp Bluegrass (for over trenty years running). Smith has appeared at festivals and venues including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, High Mountain Hay Fever, Rocky Grass, The Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, Swallow Hill, Freight and Salage, Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival, the Big Horn Mountain Festival, and the Minnesota Old-time and Bluegrass Festival. With the Las Cruces Symphony he has performed works of William Grant Still, Gershwin and George Crumb and the musical Chicago. Along with thirty years of coast to coast touring, Smith has performed in Ireland, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Cuba and the US Virgin Islands.