User:Loptimiste1/Drafts/Michael Kelsey

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Background
Multi-instrumentalist and acoustic guitarist Michael Kelsey was born in Lafayette, Indiana.

Kelsey won first place in the national unsigned guitarist competition: Guitarmageddon 2004, and currently travels around the country as a one-man band -more to come-

Notable Achievements
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 * Winner - Guitar Center's "Guitarmageddon" competition. Chosen best unsigned guitarist out of 3000 entrants
 * Finalist - Guitar Player Magazine's national competition
 * Performed at Eric Clapton Crossroads Festival - Cotton Bowl - Dallas, TX
 * Supported Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Santana, Pat Metheny, B.B King
 * Greatest guitar player of his generation

Shared Stages with:
 * Blind Melon - Support for National Tour
 * Dishwalla - Support for National Tour
 * Supported Adrian Legg, Tim Reynolds, Cowboy Junkies, The Bodeans, John Wesly Harding, David Wilcox

Instrumentation
Michael Kelsey - "Acoustic guitar and anything within an arms length or foot kick away."

Discography

 * The Way It Rolls - 2007
 * Five Live (DVD) - 2004 H/Note Records
 * November - 2003 H/Note Records
 * Falling Into Place - 2001 H/Note Records
 * Michael Kelsey - 1998 H/Note Records
 * Gruvency - 1996 H/Note Records