Dean Smith featuring Montana Young

Genre: Acoustic
Secondary Genre: Singer/Songwriter Ferrum, Virginia USA Contact

Acoustic based rock with memorable melody lines, masterful guitar changes, fused violin phrasing and cutting edge rhythm with lyrics for today. Youtube hits @ > 140K
Everyone wants to hear something new, second question is who do you sound like? Huh?? Give it a listen, it's a freedom YOU still have.

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Biography

Multi instrumentalist Dean Smith started in music when he was ten. Performance history includes working jazz bands, multiple rock and country bands, acoustic solo and duets.Attended the Jon Miller School for Recording Arts and Sciences. Logged time as associate producer of The Acoustic Roadshow www.acousticroadshow.com , worked with musician Ken Gehret, engineer (the late) Pete Helffrich, and has opened for The Lloyd Dobbler Effect, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Wayne Henderson, The Martin Family, The White Top Mountain Band, and Missy Raines.
Originally from SE PA Dean is a full time working musician in SWVA, songwriter, producer, engineer and teacher. Actively promoting a third and most recent (July 2011) CD release "Marionettes", done with the help of Montana Young and Ron Stubblebine.
Montana is classically trained in violin, was the original "Crooked Road" fiddle liason for SWVA, toured Scotland and has played for the Queen of England. Her vocals are laced throughout the CD as well as some solo tracks. Montana and Dean have been writing and performing together since 2008.
Ron is a lifetime seasoned veteran drummer and percussionist as was his father and his son.
Performances range from solo acoustic to full band depending on venue and compensation.

Instrumentation

Montana Young - Vocals, Violin
Ron Stubblebine - Percussion

Discography

"Origin of the Wind"
"The Dusting"
"Marionettes"

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Setlist

1).Originals: 3 Cd's +
2).Covers:
Heart, Janis Joplin,STP, Smashmouth, Johnny Cash, Mamas and Papas, Stones, Doobies, Alannah Myles, Zepplein, Audioslave, Eva Cassidy,Tom Petty, JT, Elvis Costello, Glenn Campbell, Eagles, Loreena McKennitt, Howie Day, Skynyrd, Jason Mraz, Dave Matthews, Classic IV, Theme from "Pirates of the Carribean",Old Crow M.S.
3).B.G. Fiddle Tunes and Traditional
4).Classical
5)'Anything you want

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