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Upcoming Appearances
- Saturday, June 02, 2012
- 4:00PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Blue River, WI
- Saturday, June 09, 2012
- 11:30AM - Gebhard Woods Festival
- Morris, IL
- Sunday, June 10, 2012
- 1:30PM - Community Event
- Park Ridge, IL
- Friday, June 15, 2012
- 6:00PM - Wedding
- Alsip, IL
- Saturday, June 16, 2012
- 5:00PM - Wedding
- Kohler, WI
- Friday, June 22, 2012
- 11:00AM - Midwest Fibre Arts Festival
- Grayslake, IL
- Saturday, June 23, 2012
- 1:30PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Rockford, IL
- Saturday, June 23, 2012
- 5:30PM - Wedding Cocktail Hour
- Galena, IL
- Sunday, June 24, 2012
- 11:00AM - Horse Festival
- Marengo, IL
- Saturday, July 21, 2012
- 10:00AM - Festival
- Porterfield, WI
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Past Appearances
- Saturday, May 19, 2012
- 4:00PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Galena, IL
- Friday, May 04, 2012
- 7:00PM - Art Gallery Opening
- Lodi, WI
- Saturday, March 03, 2012
- 6:30PM - Birthday Party (Adults)
- Mundelein, IL
- Friday, March 02, 2012
- 5:30PM - Restaurant Event
- South Beloit, IL
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012
- 5:00PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Milwaukee, WI
- Friday, December 02, 2011
- 6:30PM - Private Party
- Milwaukee, WI
- Sunday, November 20, 2011
- 4:00PM - Birthday Party (Adults)
- Rockford, IL
- Thursday, November 10, 2011
- 2:30PM - Wedding
- Naperville, IL
- Friday, September 02, 2011
- 3:00PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Rochelle, IL
- Saturday, August 27, 2011
- 5:30PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Lake In The Hills, IL
Click here for more past appearances= Booked through GigMasters
- Location:
- Harvard, Illinois
- Travel Radius:
- Will travel up to 500 miles from Harvard.
- Pay Range:
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$150-$1300 per job
- Member Since:
- 2010
- Primary Category:
- Acoustic Guitar
- Additional Categories:
- Banjo
- Influences:
- The Beatles, Chet Atkins, John Denver, Gamble Rogers, Doc Watson, Stefan Grossman, Richard Ruskin,
Description
Ed Hall is an instrumental fingerstyle guitarist and banjo player. His performances are lively and humorous as well as instrumentally astounding. Ed's music is ideal for concerts, cafes, weddings, and special events such as fingerstyle guitar workshops. His approach to fingerstyle guitar playing has always been to try to arrange pieces for guitar that are not typically played on one guitar, difficult pieces, arranged as accurately as possible by ear. Instrumentals like The William Tell Overture, Hoedown from Rodeo by Copland, and the theme from Peter Gunn are now part of the classic arrangements in his repertoire.
All of the sample instrumental guitar music is played on one guitar, there are no guitar overdubs. The ensemble selections are of course multi-instrumental.
In September of 1991 Ed won the coveted National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.
Ed expertise on the 5-string banjo is uniquely his own style. Fast and precise, Ed's style is one of a kind. His remarkable and inspiring arrangement of Soldier's Joy with the Star Spangled banner is a show stopper and a tribute to American service personnel across the globe.
Ed also plays guitar and banjo with the eclectic/acoustic quartet Trillium, specializing in Celtic, swing, ragtime, dixieland, country, and bluegrass music. Check out Trillium: trillium acoustic/eclectic band.
Ed also has been performing around the country with Jeff Friedlander as the duo Friedlander and Hall for the past 40 years.
Song List
Available For:
Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Banquets, Birthday Parties, Children's Birthday Parties, Celebrations, Christmas Parties, Clubs, Cocktail Parties, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Events, Festivals, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Halloween Parties, New Year's Eve Parties, Picnic, Private Parties, Restaurants, Reunions, School Assemblies, Weddings, Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Cocktail Hours, Wedding Receptions...and more.
Feedback
- Ed did an amazing job! I requested specific Beatles songs for the ceremony, and he had no problem learning them. Without his beautiful guitar playing the ceremony would not have been what it was! Ed was very professional and did everything he agreed to. I would recommend him to anyone! -- Cori B, Elburn, IL, 8/28/2010
- Ed did a wonderful job playing for my wedding and then again at the cocktail hour. He was easy to contact prior to the day and very professional. Our wedding and cocktail hour were in diffenet towns, and Ed was so nice to travel from one to the other. His guitar playing was excellent and he made our wedding unique. Everyone raved on how great he was and how he made our wedding unforgetable. -- Nicole B, Oglesby, IL, 6/4/2011
- Ed was both kind and professional and was experienced to the extent that we felt more calm when he arrived. He understood our needs and made suggestions which alleviated our need to think about one more detail. He played beautifully and was gracious to us. Thank you Ed! -- Sue M, Evanston, IL, 6/18/2011
- Ed did an excellent job. We are so blessed to have him at our wedding. He even learned 2 new songs so that we could hear them at our wedding. I would HIGHLY recommend him to anyone. -- Kathyn H, Naperville, IL, 11/10/2011
- Great talent, very flexible, very friendly. What more could you ask for?
-- Joshua P, Milwaukee, WI, 2/29/2012
- Ed is very talented. He played for 2 hours non-stop and everyone enjoyed him very much. -- Tom L, South Beloit, IL, 3/2/2012
- Ed was outstanding....he was a great addition to a speical occasion. I would highly recommend him to others in the future. Thank you Ed for all your tallent.
Kristin -- Kristin C, Mundelein, IL, 3/3/2012
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