Greg Herriges

CLICK "LYRICS" FOR INFO ON THE SONGS AND WHO PLAYS ON THEM...NAME: Greg Herriges (pronounce "HARE-i-gus")------ OCCUPATIONS: Musician, Composer, Author, Visual Artist------ I play guitar, bouzouki, sing, and dabble in everything else I can get my hands on. My focus is original and interpreted "world music," leaning toward South and East Asian territory with roots in the West but branches reaching worldwide. I also write/edit/produce instructional music books, DVDs, and multi-media for mass consumption under the aegis of Hal Leonard Publishing, plus teach guitar and do graphic design work.------ Recent musical projects include: my CD It Plays Me; live accompaniment to Zaraawar Mistry's Children's Stories from India; soundtrack music for Hamline University's production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; "fusion" projects with Hindustani vocalist Pooja Goswami, tabla players A. Pavan and Ravi Prasad, pianist Vladan Milenkovic, percussionist Troy Berg, bassist/guitarist John Wright, and pipa player Gao Hong; As of this writing, I'm working with In the Heart of the Beast Mask & Puppet Theater as live accompanist/music director for Beneath the Surface. My next CD (working title Telluric Currents) is slated for August 2008 release. Solo and full-band GIGS are ongoing.------ Recent Hal Leonard projects include the book/CD World Guitar ("a guitarist's guide to the traditional styles of cultures around the world"), and lots of books in the Guitar Songs for Dummies series (Acoustic, Rock, Hard Rock, and Blues Guitar Songs for Dummies). More coming soon...------ I happily serve as graphic designer and board member for Indian Music Society of Minnesota (IMSOM). Other art clients include AC Media/New Folk/Loud Folk Records, the Hindu Society of Minnesota, and the Herriges self-promotion enterprise. (See samples at www.gregherriges.com.)------ I spent most of my musical life in Minneapolis, MN, where I played avant-rock with Us, A Million Living Things, Produkt, and Motherlode (with violinist/singer Tracy Silverman); alt-pop with Tim Mahoney and Gini Dodds; and various other styles & projects. I studied ethnomusicology, with a focus on Asian art music (BA, Summa cum Laude, U of MN) and spent a brief stint in Milwaukee as in-house music publications editor at Hal Leonard.------ I now share a South Minneapolis apartment with two giant cats, Rama and Madhura, and am lucky enough to earn a fulfilling living making music and art.