Nick Russo Acoustic Guitar Acoustic Guitarist from New York City, NY

Nick Russo's elegant classical, jazz, blues guitar for concerts and classy events. Solo guitar, duo and trio with other acoustic instruments adds such a lovely vibe. Having classical guitarist, Nick Russo at your music festival or house concert will add another dimension to the experience. Classical guitar and solo guitar performing bossa-nova, samba and jazz is such a lovely touch at a show, wedding ceremony, corporate event, or fund-raiser. "Nick Russo is the most accommodating musician you could ever hope to work with. He honored every song request we asked for. He went above and beyond when he and his wife helped me compose an original song for my husband as a surprise. He then accompanied me on the song at my wedding. People couldn't stop talking the entire night about how amazing the song was. His talent is phenomenal. The feel his musicianship lent to the cocktail hour & ceremony was one of elegance, sophistication, fun, uplifting, and beautiful. I highly recommend him to any future bride, not just for his talent, but for his warm and inviting personality as well. Thanks Nick!" 5/5 stars Jessica & Paul Bartels Multi-instrumentalist, Nick Russo is a full-time professional musician, educator and father in NYC. Nick performs with artists such as Paul McCartney, Jon Batiste (Colbert Show & at NYC Black Lives Matter protests), John Lithgow, Rob Morrow, The Hot Sardines, Antonique Smith, Deep Singh, (Katy Perry, Sting, Robert Plant), Frank London, Zeb Bangash, Russell Hall (Bessie & The Rainbow Kids), Gordon Au: The Grand St Stompers, Alphonso Horne (Lady Gaga) & many other musicians & bands. Russo was the guitarist for legendary jazz organists, Jimmy McGriff & Jimmy The Preacher Robins, vibraphonist/composer/producer, Teddy Charles and leads The Scooches (Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches), Hot Jazz Jumpers, Nick Russo+11 and Nick Russo Trio. You can see Nick on ABC's Good Morning America, in films: PBS Masterpiece: The Chaperone & Sam Mendes: Away We Go. Nick plays guitar/banjo on PBS Kids: Peg + Cat, is the author of Metallica's Legendary Licks series (vol. 1 & 2), editor of GRP arpeggios (Hal Leonard). Nick has performed at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Dizzy's Club, Carnegie Hall, The U.N., across the United States, internationally in Japan, Spain, Brazil, St. Kitts, Bermuda, Canada and as guitarist/MC for Anastasia Rene throughout Russia: Moscow, Omsk,Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Acedemy City. Nick has played extensively with Malika Zarra, including her Ebony Road CD release with Harvey Wirht, Mamadou Ba, Brahim Frigane and other great world musicians. As a pupil of Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Russo continues to study Indian music, plays harmonium, box tanpura, oud and performs with grammy nominated producer/composer/Indian percussionist, Deep Singh (tabla player with Sting) and grammy nominated producer/trumpet player/composer, Frank London on a regular basis. Russo has also played extensively with ELEW years before, when he was jazz pianist, Eric Lewis and trombonist, Clark Gayton as sideman in various bands, including the James Brown tribute band with the late great, Black Velvet (Charles Bradley) led by Victor Jones.