Kinloch Nelson has been playing guitar for fun since 1956, seriously since '68 and professionally since '73. Over a decades-long guitar performance career Nelson has played folk, classical,  ragtime, American primitive, new-age, R & B, surf, rock, country, jazz music and original compositions in bands, ensembles and as a solo performer/composer.  Nelson has been reviewed in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine, Fretboard Journal, Rolling Stone and Mojo Magazines, contributed transcriptions and instruction videos to Acoustic Guitar Magazine, performed for NPR radio and TV, and released CDs/&vinyl on Tompkins Square Records,  and Heartland, BKNjr, and Sampler Records.

     Nelson studied classical guitar with British guitarist/composer Stanley Watson, jazz guitar with Gene Bertoncini at Eastman Music School, and music theory at the University of Rochester. Teaching credits include 25 years at Hochstein Music School in Rochester, NY, four years at Maryland Summer Center for the Arts in Baltimore and numerous workshops at guitar festivals in the US and Canada since 2004.  He is also an amateur luthier, and hang-glider pilot. 

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