As a musician, teacher, producer, guitarist and author, Matt Smith has dedicated himself to the art and craft of making music for over 30 years. He was a senior music instructor for the National Guitar Workshop, along with some of the finest guitar instructors in the country, leading workshops in Connecticut, Chicago, LA, New Orleans, Austin, Nashville, Florida, Seattle, Oakland, the UK and Germany.

As a player, Matt has hundreds of songwriting, recording and live credits and has toured the US and dozens of other countries. It’s not only hard to find someone with Matt’s breadth of experience, but it’s rare to find someone who shares his knowledge so generously.

Matt has produced and engineered for over 100 commercially-released albums, commercials, and film soundtracks. As a session musician, he has played multiple instruments (acoustic, electric, and baritone guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, dobro, sitar, Mohan vina, steel guitar, ukulele, saz, cumbus, charango, tiple) for many artists in New York and Austin.

Since 1991, Matt has been an international clinician for Kaman Music (Ovation, Takamine, Hamer Guitars and Trace Elliott Amplifiers), and a product demonstrator for Fret King Guitars, Tony Bruno Custom Amplifiers, Tech 21, Pigtronix Effects Pedals, and most recently, Supro Amps.

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Bill Kaman has been immersed in music and musical instruments his entire life.

As a teenager he spent his school holidays on the production line of Ovation, the revolutionary fibreglass round back guitar designed in the mid-60s by his late father, helicopter pioneer Charles H Kaman. After graduating college with an economics degree Bill worked in guitar design and production, eventually taking the reins of the fledgling Kaman Music Corporation, steering the fortunes of some the world’s most iconic and coveted musical instrument brands, including Ovation, Adamas, Takamine and Hamer guitars, Gretsch Drums and Trace Elliot amplifiers.

In almost 3 decades under his guidance KMC grew into the USA’s largest manufacturer/distributor of music products. Following a brief sideways step as CEO of AirKaman, a subsidiary of KMC’s Aerospace parent company, Bill left the organisation that still bears his name to concentrate on his first passion; making music, rather than making guitars.

Bill has recorded two projects at 6 String Ranch and is currently working on a third. He is an active songwriter and plays regularly in Austin and the Hill Country.