Taylor S

I attended a private school from K-12 named Augusta Preparatory Day School, and graduated in 2013. I began attending George Regents University that fall, but dropped out during my third semester to allow myself more freedom to tour. While in college, I did a study abroad in Ireland studying the traditional music of Ireland and the use of mandolin in Irish music.

I studied guitar and mandolin for several years with a music teacher in Augusta, GA, with a focus on rock guitar and bluegrass playing.

I have been performing for a living since I graduated high school in 2013, generally playing three nights a week while not touring. I have toured fairly heavily, played in 14 states, mostly up the East Coast. I have played everything from bluegrass festivals and pride parades to intimate venues in New York City. I have played in a variety of bands, including my most recent position, playing electric guitar in a southern rock/country band known as the Kenny George Band, with a heavy emphasis of playing slide guitar. I have played mandolin in two heavily touring, fairly traditional bluegrass bands out of Augusta and Asheville, NC, Crying Wolf and Clyde's on Fire, respectively. I play banjo in a new grass band known as Delta Cane. I played guitar and banjo in a indie rock band known as She N She. I backed a singer-songwriter named Celia Gary, playing bass. I also fronted a jam band known as Taylor & the Swans, and played guitar with a pop-centric cover band. A recording of my guitar playing was used on the last Backstreet Boys tour, for their opener to sing to.

I have taught guitar students, but not with a company. I have taught children, teens, and an adult. In Augusta I was able to get students whom I taught out of my house there via word of mouth . Also, as a senior in high school in 2012-2013, I was granted permission to teach a beginner guitar class for middle schoolers in lieu of a traditional elective.