Artists:Steve Kunzman

Steve Kunzman first held a guitar at the age of seven, when he began guitar lessons. (Prior to that time he just strummed a tennis racquet).

During the early years, bands were formed, parents hid in upstairs rooms as Steve and his friends learned to hammer out songs from the radio. Steve’s musical focus shifted from electric guitar wizardry toward the inherent beauty of the acoustic guitar. It was a relatively easy transition from electric to acoustic, and to this day some of his long-time musical compatriots believe that he found his true musical voice in the acoustic guitar.

Steve acknowledges that he doesn’t know life without the guitar, and couldn’t imagine it any other way. When he backpacked solo through the Middle East, in the ’70s, he and his Gibson LGO were inseparable. Not only acting as a trusted hollow-bodied companion, but as an instrument for speaking a common language across cultures, opening doors to friendship and adventure. It was in the Golan Heights, Israel that Steve learned to play the banjo and began to study Bluegrass.

Music has always been at the very core of his soul. Academic pursuits brought him to Colgate University where he majored in Religion. In addition, he studied electronic music, using tape, Moog, early forms of computer generated music and classical guitar.

He subsequently went to Vermont Law School, earning a masters degree in environmental law. While living in the Green Mountains on the White River, Steve picked up a flat-backed mandolin from the 1920s, enriching his interest in Country Blues and Bluegrass.

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