Blues/Rock Improv

A guitarist since age six, Jon Finn has been a professional musician for most of his life. Today, he's been repeatedly acknowledged within the international community of musicians as being a clear leader in Modern Rock Guitar as a performer, composer, and educator. Joining the guitar faculty at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1988, he started the Jon Finn Group later that same year. To date, they have three internationally released CDs, Don't Look So Serious (Legato Records 1994), Wicked (SEP Records 2000), "Bull in a China Shop" (SEP Records 2010) several independent releases and countless performances worldwide under their belts. For over three years, Jon wrote a monthly instructional feature for a national magazine called Guitar. Jon has also authored several books for Mel Bay Publications (Advanced Modern Rock Guitar Improvisation, One Guitar, Many Styles, Blues/Rock Improvisation, and Foundations of Rock: Guitar Riffs in the Style of the '60s & '70s). In his freelance pursuits, he's played guitar for the national touring companies of many top-name musical theater productions.