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David Burns
Acoustic Guitar, Bluegrass Banjo, Mandolin
Acoustic guitarist extraordinaire and award-winning songwriter ("The Whiskey Never Lies"), David Burns's busy performance schedule has him playing with Celtic/Bluegrass darlings Sligo Rags, jazzgrassers TimbreLine, country band Fiddlin' Round, and traditional bluegrass band Heart Of 'Grass. 
A veteran of the Southern California acoustic music scene, Dave has proven himself a powerful force in any musical setting involving acoustic instrumentation. Whether playing acoustic lead or rhythm, with a flatpick or fingerstyle, his playing combines taste with imagination, enhancing whatever mood the composition was designed to create. MUSIC CONNECTION Magazine described his playing as "inspiring"
A singer and prolific composer as well, Dave provides the perfect example of the "well rounded" musician. This website is designed to give you a peek at some of the eclectic listening experiences Dave has to offer. Listen, and enjoy!
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Multi-instrumentalist David Burns began his musical career at age 14, beginning on the 5-string banjo, and then moving over to guitar. His earliest influences were folks like Doc Watson, Tony Rice, and many of the Old-guard flatpickers. As a banjo player, however, fingerpicking also came quite naturally to him. Inspired in his twenties by the emergence of innovative fingerstyle guitarists such as Michael Hedges and Alex De Grassi, he composed and recorded an entire album of guitar instrumentals, Soledad. Several of those compositions can be heard on this site.
 Bluegrass and "jazz-grass" then became his passions, as he dutifully studied the style of Django Reinhardt, and the contemporary spin placed on it by modern innovators such as Tony Rice, David Grisman, and Jon Jorgensen. Dave put together a bluegrass band called "High on 'Grass," (recently updated to "Heart of 'Grass) and continues to perform with them (mostly on banjo) on an occasional basis. But the jazz-grass was more than just occasional--Burns, Toth, and Halpin, which morphed into today's TimbreLine, played gigs regularly in the Los Angeles area, and still does, occasionally.
 In the late 1990's he stumbled into Celtic music, and, recognizing the potential to fuse it with bluegrass textures, has never looked back. He and Fiddler Michael Kelly assembled Sligo Rags, and have since gone on to win the Orange County Music Award for best folk two consecutive years (a rare distinction) and can now be found playing concerts and festivals coast to coast.
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David Burns
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