Scott accepts payments for online lessons, and from “patrons” here:
Venmo — @Scott-Sawyer-guitar
PayPal — paypal.me/scottsawyermusic
CashApp — $scottsawyer1
Thank You everybody, please stay safe, and Be Well! ~ SS 5/21/2020
His new album “Night Visions” (2020) is available at: https://scottsawyer.bandcamp.com/ or https://igg.me/at/scottsawyer or email Scott
November 9, 2020 — Prior to March 2020 I’d given a handful of real-time online lessons, but found the process to be awkward and frustrating at best…my technology couldn’t keep up.
The C-19 pandemic pushed me to get it together and try again as I was required to instruct my East Carolina University students online, and could no longer meet with my other students face-to-face at the Durham Jazz Workshop.
After 8 months of dealing with the pros and cons of online instruction, I’m very comfortable with it, learning how to be more effective, and enjoying the process.
I’ve been instructing for many years, and have learned that there is more than one way to get from point A to point B. I have vast experience performing a very broad range of music and am here to help you. I provide students with personalized instruction, not “cookie cutter”.
Not sure we’ll “hit it off”? I’m happy to offer a FREE 15-minute online consultation to discuss what we could get into.
In the meantime, start here https://scottsawyer.net/instruction/
Upon request I’ll e-mail you info on lesson lengths/fees, and links to recordings and video.
Contact me here: https://scottsawyer.net/contact/ or ss@scottsawyer.net
Stay safe, Be Well. ~ SS
7pm show — http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2599284
9pm show — http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2599290
*The Sharp Nine traditionally gives away some wine by the glass – while it lasts – and offers BYOB (no corkage fee) and free parking. For these shows, there may be other perks…TBA.
John had a blast playing with Scott Sawyer and Co. last year and welcomed an invite again this year for 2 nights. Expect some duo’s, trios and quartets throughout the evenings.
Abercrombie has been signed for his entire career to the famous ECM Record label and has over 40 records as a leader. He is absolutely one of the most influential guitarists in jazz and its a real treat to be able to bring him in from NY. His 2012 recording “Within A Song” with Joe Lovano/Joey Barron/Drew Gress is just incredible. One of my all time fav’s. – Dave Finucane
The NEW David Childers and Bruce Piephoff album, “Army Town Madrigal” has been released. Recorded and produced by Robert Childers, this one is a departure from Bruce’s previous two releases, “Soft Soap Purrings” and “Still Looking Up at the Stars”; it’s a bare-bones, home recording with a whole lotta love and heart. I’m happy to be a part of this album, having contributed electric guitar parts to Bruce’s tunes and poetry…and the “back and forth” – a Childers tune followed by a Piephoff tune, x 6 – really works.
These are absolutely two of the finest songwriters that I’ve had the pleasure of working with (in the land?). Enjoy!
You can get a copy from David or Bruce, as follows:
send $10 to David Childers at 730 Noles Drive, Mt. Holly, NC 28120
OR
e-mail Bruce or message Bruce on Facebook
54 West Live Music is a great venue, and I’m really looking forward to performing there with Bruce Piephoff on Saturday, February 21. David Childers opens, showtime 8:30pm . Bruce and David are two of North Carolina’s finest – and most prolific – singer songwriters. Should be a great night of music, poetry and story-telling… ~ SS
I had forgotten how much fun this was, the banter and the music…”Driving Wheel” at 9:40!
The blues is where it started for me; the roots run deep, and these guys are the real deal.
So, I stopped in to hear The Lee Boys the other night. My good friend Bill Stevens has been touring with them and invited me to the show. They are family; (the uncle) Alvin Lee on rhythm guitar – great pocket player – and his cousins, including Roosevelt “the Dr.” Collier on pedal and lap steel guitars….the Dr. is smokin’! I hadn’t previously met them, or heard them perform live. My brother Jon did tell me about an after-party show he attended in NYC – during the most recent Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre run – where he heard “the Dr.” collaborating with Kofi Burbridge and others; they performed a bunch of Hendrix.
By the time I got to the club, The Lee Boys were already into their set. What a GREAT band!!! It wasn’t a big audience, but there was no lack of enthusiasm and the same goes for the Lee Boys: they performed as if the house was packed, intense energy.
About an hour into it, I had moved to the edge of the stage and was taking it all in…the band was grooving, as Alvin turned in my direction, caught my eye and motioned me up to the stage. I hadn’t planned on sitting-in, but what the hell! We shook hands, introduced ourselves as the band played on; he handed me his guitar and the rest is history. BIG FUN.
As posted on Facebook, by NC Band Together‘s own Danny Rosin (thanks Danny!):
“This is what happens when The Lee Boys spontaneously pull one of NC’s native music sons on stage, Mr. Scott Sawyer.“
…here’s a poem by one of my favorite writers. Comments welcomed.
each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
the front tire,
the bed, the walls, the
room; all our necessities
including love,
rest on foundations of sand –
and any given cause,
no matter how unrelated:
the death of a boy in Hong Kong
or a blizzard in Omaha …
can serve as your undoing.
all your chinaware crashing to the
kitchen floor, your girl will enter
and you’ll be standing, drunk,
in the center of it and she’ll ask:
my god, what’s the matter?
and you’ll answer: I don’t know,
I don’t know …
