charley simmons
Charley Simmons
Singer/Songwriter
38 South Main St
Helper, UT 84526
435-472-3025
charley@charleysimmons.com
www.charleysimmons.com
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UAC |
$250 |
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Presenter |
$250 |
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Total |
$500 |
Availability: July 1, 2007 to June
30, 2008
From early days of plinkin’ on a forty-dollar Sears
& Rosebuck guitar, to his present status as a performing
and recording artist, Charley Simmons has made a lifetime
of entertaining people with his music. Born in 1950
and raised on a farm near Blackiston Crossroads, Delaware,
Charley began playing the guitar at age nine. By the
age of sixteen, he was earning money traveling and performing
throughout the state with a band, but it wasn’t until
his move to St. Augustine, Florida in 1971, and his exposure
to the late Gamble Rogers, that he began to develop his own
finger picking solo style. Since that time his playing
has taken him much further. Charley was the 1992 Utah
State Flattop Guitar Champion, the 2002 Wyoming State Fingerstyle
Champion, the winner of the 2003 Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle
Guitar Competition and a winner in the 2005 KRCL Singer/Songwriter
Competition. Charley’s music is as diverse as
his musical influences have been, drawing on folk, blues,
bluegrass and jazz. “I might play a song about
a depressed coal mine economy – I spent seven years
as an underground miner so I know a little about this –
and then follow it up with the Sheik of Arabia. I don’t
know if this is normal behavior, but it seems to work.”
Normal or not, Charley continues to captivate audiences with
his articulate guitar playing and voice, which was once described
as a combination of “dry, shag-cut tobacco and honey.”
His concerts generate all the intimacy and warmth one might
experience if they had been invited into his living room and
seated next to the fireplace on a cold winter’s night!
"red hot fingerpickin’ estraordinaire”
– Intermountain Acoustic Musician
“a must see in musical entertainment” –
Aspen Daily News
“Simmons’ picking will heat up the night”
“…always amazes the crowd with his lightning-fast
Travis pickin’style” – Glenwood Springs
Post Independent
“…some of the finest fingerpicking and singing
that has been heard around these parts in a very long time!”
–Adus Dorsey – The Richfield Reaper / Torrey
News
Outreach Options:
- Mini concert at nursing home, schools, hospitals , etc.
- Master Class for beginner through advanced players on
the elements of Travis-style guitar playing. A hands-on
type workshop is preferred.
- A live radio interview and performance
Technical Requirements:
- A quality sound system with one stage monitor
- One boom stand and a quality vocal mic
- One direct box (for guitar)
- 8’ x 10’ stage minimum
- I can furnish my own small sound system for an additional
$100.00 (please inquire)
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