JAZZ GUITAR SPOTLIGHT – Featuring Neil Davis & Ben Dameron

bar centro introduces; JAZZ GUITAR SPOTLIGHT beginning this month and running every second Thursday of the month through the end of the year.  Each evening will feature two jazz guitarists.

This month’s performance will begin with Ben Dameron, a sought after performer, composer and pedagogue based in Milwaukee. He received his degrees in classical guitar from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, having studied with Kevin Callahan, Sergio Assad and René Izquierdo.  In 2021, he recorded his first studio album “Voyage to Phrygia Session”, a collection of original compositions for jazz quartet. He currently performs in his group Badland as well as Heirloom, Match Stick and Cream City Hotclub.  Ben resides on the guitar faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

Each month Neil Davis will perform second.  Neil Davis, is a jazz guitarist from Milwaukee, the Jazz Guitar teacher at Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s jazz studies program and adjunct professor of guitar at UW-Oshkosh.  He also helped found Milwaukee Jazz Vision, a jazz advocacy group.  Neil lives with his wife and family on Milwaukee’s west side where he has a busy teaching studio called Neil Davis Guitar.