Ben Mancke

I am now playing friday nights at madeliene's, downtwon spokane, across from the bon building 7-10pm I started playing guitar right before I turned sixteen. I have played around with lots of different influences over the years, and everything has kind of colaborated to a very unique, approach to my style. Having "nack" for arrangement and technique, combined with never really involving myself with a serious combo, I became increasingly facinated with composistions where the guitar was the whole song. I found myself listening to alot of Don Ross, Stanley Jordan and other vurtuoso soloists, who could carry a whole song by themselves. Now my goal is to etch myself in this culture of guitar. I know everyone wants me to do vocals, but everyone has a song within them, they just have to sing it...my voice is the guitar.