User:Tonyfazio

Tony Fazio is a blues guitarists from Davidsonville, md. He has has extensive experience in performing blues on guitar and bass. He has a bachelors degree in music from Berklee College of Music, along with a musical family, whose dad got him interested in playing guitar in church since he was 7 years old. Right after Berklee, Tony got experience playing with Memphis Gold, Bobby Parker and Charlie Sayles, 3 of the big DC blues legends. Tony has toured all over the world with bands in places such as: Puerto Rico, Honduras, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Cuba to Alaska and United State, and has performed at the Kennedy Center twice with two different bands and the Washington Monument Smithsonian Folklife Festival. His last tour was of Belgium included Brugges, Kortjik, Gent, Brussels and many other cities in Belgium. Tony has also played american blues guitar at many of the major blues festivals from United States to Europe, including: Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival 3 times with 3 different bands, two playing guitar, and one on bass, BlueBird blues Festival, Hot August Blues Festival, Smithsonian Folklife festival, DC Blues Society Blues Festival, Baltimore Blues society Blues Festival, Tinner Hill Blues Festival, Blues festival in Eslov, Sweden, Blaublues festival in Belgium, Blues 2000 & 3 festival in New York, Downhome Blues Festival in South Carolina, Big Lick Blues Festival, Roanoke, Va, Greenbelt Blues Festival, Greenbelt, MD, Riverfront Blues Festival, Wilmington, DE, Low country Bluesbash in South Carolina, Mid Atlantic Music and Arts Festival, Eastern Bayside wine and Blues Festival, Pee Dee Blues Bash in Florence, SC, BBQ Battle Festival in DC, Kennedy Center for the opening of Martin Scorsese's Blues documentary, Kennedy Center Millennium stage with Memphis Gold, Several USO tours including entertaining the troups at GITMO, cuba, Honduras, Alaska, puerto Rico. These Festivals Tony performed at included many national performers on the same festival such as: James Brown, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Shameka Copeland, Duke Robillard, Deanna Bogart, Bobby Parker, Spyro Gyra, Los Lobos, Jimmy Cliff, etc. Tony is currently performing with the Stacy Brooks Band, Electrofied Blues Band, and Charlie Sayles and the Blues Disciples. Tony is also on the new Memphis Gold Cd which is being played on BB King and Bill Wax's Bluesville on satellite radio. It was one of the top cds played in march, 2009.