Martin Farrell Jr. is a musician, songwriter and producer living in Lawrence, KS who has been working on his craft for over 30 years. He plays guitar, piano, pedal steel, banjo, bass, mandolin, harmonica and several other instruments playing with bands spanning from...
Autumn Hayes is an alternative soft-rock musician based in Eudora, KS. As a solo artist and the bassist of the critically acclaimed local act Lonnie Fisher and the Funeral, she has performed at numerous locations in Northeast Kansas and in the KCMO area. Autumn plays...
Music is a wonderful thing to have in our lives, and it has always been my biggest passion. Working with beginners is one of my favorite things because I love sharing the gift of music and introducing others to the thing that has brought so much joy to my life. I...
Meet Alison! We are so excited to welcome this accomplished voice, piano and early childhood music education dynamo to our teaching ranks at Americana Music Academy. Alison has experience both in the public education classroom and teaching private, one-on-one lessons...
Aleia González holds a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from UMKC. As a performance artist, she is constantly seeking for opportunities to collaborate with singers and instrumentalists of the Kansas City area. Part of this personal initiative include...
Ian Ly is a guitarist in Lawrence who has competed in top flatpicking contests and was a top 5 finalist in the Walnut Valley National championships in Winfield, Kansas. Ian grew up in the Northern California bluegrass scene and has been surrounded by music for most of...
Jacob Bigus is a singer-songwriter and electric guitarist based in Lawrence, KS. His love of music began at an early age learning to sing prayers with his family at Synagogue. He played clarinet in the various school bands during his years in middle and high school in...
Jim has been playing guitar since his teens, and fiddle and banjo since the early 1980s. He has performed and toured with such groups as The 97th Regimental Stringband and The Euphoria Stringband. Jim specializes in finger-picking guitar, old-time contra-dance style...
David has played music professionally since junior high school in various groups and styles. His most recent ventures include the Lawrence City Band, Ottawa Symphony, several rock and country dance bands, and a ballroom dance band called the Prairie Dogs. After...
Josephine is a professional bluegrass and country fiddler originally from Kansas but now residing in Nashville, Tennessee. Josie taught at Americana Music Academy previously and is now available for virtual lessons from Music City! Josie has toured regionally and...
Matthew Mulnix is an alternative pop/rock musician from Lawrence, KS. Performing both originals and covers through the filter of coffee shop guitar and vocals, Matthew loves entertaining audiences with his honest, yet accessible live sets. Mulnix has released two...
Michael Paull was born and raised in Ft. Collins, Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He moved to Lawrence in 1993 ("I thought I'd go see what the horizon looked like.") where he has lived ever since. In January of 2003 he became a staff teacher at the...
Howard Rains is a native Texas artist and fiddler now living in Lawrence, Kansas. He comes from a musical and artistic family and his two obsessions are folk art watercolor painting and playing traditional old time American fiddle music. He is the fourth generation to...
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