Today’s Speaker is Tom Finch
Multi-instrumentalist, Songwriter, Recording Artist, Music Educator
Tom Finch
Tom Finch, a California native and multi-instrumentalist for over thirty years is Influenced by rock, blues, and jazz styles and his playing and composing continue to grow with a creative and energetic force!
A Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame inductee, Tom has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada, and is featured on many albums with groups such as Big Brother & the Holding Co, Jazz Iguanas, Pamela Parker, S.F. Airship and Talley Up, as well as leading his own groups. Tom has played with a variety of artists some of which include: Joan Baez, Norton Buffalo, Mel Graves, Steve Smith, Kai Eckhardt and many more! His formal training includes 10 plus years of study in music theory, composition, performance, and education at Sonoma State University, College of Marin and Mills College, and he has taught music, privately, as well as in school programs for more than 20 years. He currently resides in Fairfax California.