Don Ross | Fingerstyle Guitar | 2 Seas Sessions

Donald James Ross, or Don Ross, is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist. He is the only person to win the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship twice. His album Huron Street reached the top ten on the Billboard New-age chart.
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Don Ross was born and raised in Montreal and has lived in various parts of Canada over the course of his life. The son of a Mi’kmaw Indigenous mother and a Scottish immigrant father, he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music) degree from Toronto’s York University and started working full-time as a musician in 1988. That year he won the US National Fingerpick Guitar Championship for the first time, and also played with his quartet Eye Music at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Signing a solo recording contract with Duke Street Records that same year, he went on to release two CDs of solo guitar music for the label in 1989 and 1990, as well as a third CD for the label featuring vocal music, full band arrangements, and solo guitar tunes in 1993.
Concentrating his touring primarily in Canada at the start of his career, Don went on to sign with Sony Music/Columbia Records (Canada) in 1994, releasing three CDs for the label. US-based Narada Records also licensed two pieces for the Masters of Acoustic Guitar CD in 1997. Meanwhile, Don won the US National Fingerpick Guitar Championship for the second time in 1996. To this day, he is still the competition’s only two-time winner. Don began touring more internationally at this point in his career, concentrating especially on Germany and other central European countries.
Signing directly with Narada in 1998, Don went on to release three CDs for the label. Passion Session, released in 1999, has gone on to be considered one of the high water marks in the world of modern solo guitar, with several of the tunes (notably “Michael, Michael, Michael,” “The First Ride,” “Tight Trite Night” and his arrangement of David Essig’s “Berkley Springs”) now considered more or less standard repertoire in the genre.
Don released Huron Street in 2001, an album of reinterpretations of earlier work never previously released internationally. It went on to spend two weeks in the Billboard Top Ten’s “New Age” chart. In 2003 Don’s last recording for Narada, Robot Monster, explored possibilities of blending solo guitar with electronic music, especially on collaborations with Berlin-based composer Christoph Bendel.
Don’s period recording for Narada was fruitful in terms of opening up the possibilities for more international touring, and he started playing regularly in Japan, Taiwan, the USA, and multiple European countries. By this time, though, illegal online file sharing had decimated the world of recorded music, and many record labels, Narada included, began to close their doors. In 2005, Don entered into negotiations with the internet-based label startup CandyRat Records, and became the company’s first signed artist. Together they released Don’s next recording, Music for Vacuuming, late that year. Since then, Don has released multiple CDs for the label (including collaborative titles with guitarists Andy McKee and Calum Graham) and two live concert DVDs. In addition, Don has released three other albums independently, Live in Your Head (2006), Any Colour (2009) and Don Ross Louder Than Usual (2019). Over the course of that time, Don’s touring base has gone on to include trips to Australia, India, Russia, China, South Korea, and a dozen European countries.
Recording Engineer - John Nicholls
Mixed by - Audio Racket - audioracket.com
Many thanks to Toby Barelli

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This is what happens when you practice hard and the Gods shine upon you at the same time. Don is the benchmark.

[@simonbellyfull]

🤴🤴🤴

[@axumrockwell]

My God

[@junhipe]

As someone who breathes for a living,this incredibly breathtaking 😍

[@Ace-bw4zr]

He played so well the guitar is literally on fire.

[@johnnicholls9244]

Incredible style and technique

[@simonphythian865]

Don is a unique craftsman of his art. A joy to listen to. Thanks for sharing.

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Bloody hell 👍👍👍

[@axmorahtravel]

Legend

[@richardgomez8344]

The way he looks at the guitar while playing it says the whole love story behind.

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This Guy is the cool version of us who only exists in our mind.

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He isn't playing the guitar, he's actually playing with guitar .

[@killeradobo4736]

Truly a Gem♥️Masterpiece in field of guitar..

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This guy is so Amazing 👏 😍

[@lenielugaw6364]

The guitar itself didn't knew it could be played like this🤣👏♥️

[@asheholeo3210]

i've got this on repeat, fantastic listen.

[@desertgutterrecords]

respect i like the way that guitar sounds when ross hits hit sounds peaceful

[@easthillguerilla-vd3ne]

Nice stuff. He's brilliant. Saw him play at The Jenny Lind a while back.

[@mrkingsizeslim]

Wow. Glad this one is out now. Been waiting. What an incredible player

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He's good looking..👌😘😘🤔

[@origintheobserver-pv3cl]

Thats amazing. How many fingers?

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As a Guitarist! He inspired me to sell my guitar😂🎉