| Greg Reish has
been making music the focus of his life for over thirty years.
Playing folk music, jazz, rock, and bluegrass through most of his
childhood in Atlanta, he went on to study jazz guitar at the University
of Miami, work as a freelance musician in Nashville, then earn
master’s and doctoral degrees in historical musicology from the
University of Georgia. He received a Fulbright grant to study the
music of Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi in Rome, and served on the
faculty of the University of Georgia, the University of Hawaii-Hilo,
and Buffalo State College, before assuming his current position at
Roosevelt University in Chicago. |
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Greg's performance and
study of traditional American music concentrate on the rural, mostly
Southern music of the 1920s through the 1940s, encompassing such styles
as old time, hillbilly (early country), country blues, ragtime, and
bluegrass. A guitarist first and foremost, he is adept on a
variety of other instruments. Having performed throughout the
U.S. and overseas, some of his more noteworthy gigs include opening for
Roger McGuinn (of the Byrds) and playing for Japanese
dignitaries at the American Embassy in Tokyo. As a scholar, he
participated in The Bluegrass Music Symposium at Western Kentucky
University, has collaborated with Mike Seeger, and conducted research
in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.
Currently he is writing a book on the history of Old Time Guitar Styles.
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