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solo acoustic guitar/piano

Jerry Breiner (guitar, piano, vocals) is a Midwest native, though he has called California home since 1980 and has been a mainstay of the local Ventura, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara club and concert scenes since. Performing professionally since the age of 8, Jerry is a multi-instrumentalist on guitar, piano, organ, marimba/vibes, mandolin, banjo, dobro and percussion instruments, and he has performed and recorded as both a singer-songwriter and multi-tasking session musician and producer in St Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville and Orlando, FL.  Jerry was signed as a staff writer to Sony-Tree Publishing in Nashville for a number of years before moving to California, and he has played with or opened for acts as diverse as Al Stewart, Karla Bonoff, Mama’s Pride, Heartsfield, Emmylou Harris, Billie and the Beaters, and many others. Jerry received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Theory/Composition from Webster University and was also valedictorian in his graduating class from the prestigious Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts, a professional trade university specializing in live and studio engineering.

Jerry fell in love with the Beatles when he first saw them on Ed Sullivan. He especially was drawn to the chrome of Ringo's hardware, as well as the tuners and mic stands on all the boys' guitars. That love kept Jerry in to music from the age of 5. After Jerry moved to California in 1980, he began to perform solo with a background accompaniment he recorded of himself, first on cassette tape, playing all the background parts to the many folk and pop songs he plays (multi-part vocals, keyboards, bass and guitars). He currently uses MP3s as his background tracks, recording himself on his digital multitrack recorder.

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