Ed & Terry

Ed Kawalec...
Ed started playing electric guitar in 1975 then headed straight for fingerstyle guitar in 1976. Ed is a classically-trained guitarist, playing many genres of music, including jazz, classical, rock, and a variety of latin styles to name a few. His passion is to experience, play and share with others the best guitar music he can find. He has focused on a wide variety of music, in his repertiore includes pieces from Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Antonio Lauro, Luiz Bonfa, Francisco Terrega, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Juan Serrano, plus many modern pieces too.

Terry Premru...
Terry began playing guitar in 1967 at the age of 10. His first teacher Sam Maratos in Clearwater, FL did not use a pick but instead played "fingerstyle" songs such as "Spanish Eyes" on a pre-war Martin dreadnaught. This was the first of 3 fingerstyle guitar influences, and this one was right off the bat.

A couple years later Terry bought a Les Paul deluxe influenced by Dickey Betts, then later a Stratocaster influenced by Richie Blackmore. Then came fingerstyle guitar influence #2 - Steve Howe of Yes playing "Mood for a Day". Next he bought a classical guitar and started to self study a Segovia classical guitar book.

In 1995 he bought his first steel string acoustic guitar and started to teach guitar lessons part time in local music store. One day a student handed over a CD “Acoustic Beatles Songs” by Greg Bennett - the light-bulb went off (influence #3) and the journey thru fingerstyle guitar was on again. Nowadays the guitar influences and favorites include: Sal DiToria, Pete Huttlinger, Mark Hanson, Laurence Juber, Gregg Bennett, Eric Schoenbrg, Gregg Carmichael, Tommy Emmanuel, Jesse Cook, Ottmar Liebert.