Music…
a gift for all
Music is truly a universal language. Performance is the relationship an artist has with the audience. So often it is filled with a very special touch of once-in-a-lifetime magic.
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STEVE ONO…
is a guitarist, singer/songwriter, arranger and producer with extensive Jazz, Folk, Rock, Blues and World music influences and experience. Steve has been playing solo shows and duos with violinist Patrick Contreras in “Appassionata” and with guitarist Tom Walzem in “Guitarstrophe”. His first CD, “Voice of a Friend”, his collaboration with the late Harmonica Master Eddie Gordon, “Smokin’”, his collaboration with Hans York “Music In Teak”, his collaboration with Patrick Contreras “Appassionata” and his latest solo effort “Fingerpaint and Folk Songs”are available at CDBaby. Steve Ono, solo guitarist, is available to play for private and public events, shows, background music gigs and recording sessions. He brings a small PA system.
Visit Steve on facebook: www.facebook.com/SteveOnoGuitarist
Check out Steve’s music: www.myspace.com/steveonomusic
Steve Ono Duos: Appassionata (with Violinist Patrick Contreras) and Guitarstrophe (with Guitarist Tom Walzem) are also available.
A Simple Message Delivered from Six Strings
Steve is a musician, teacher and producer. He sings and plays guitar and bass. He works as a solo artist, plus performs in a variety of duos and freelance engagements. Steve reads music and also excels when he plays by ear. He can also transcribe, arrange and compose music. He is a teacher at the Fresno Music Academy and Arts. Steve loves to write and record his original songs and instrumentals as well as produce other artists for Fresno Folklore Records.
Musical Expertise
Guitarist Steve Ono has extensive knowledge of, and experience in, jazz, folk, rock, funk, blues, country
Steve is able to compose or improvise original music in any style for any situation and/or mood on demand, copy almost any style of music by ear and transcribe it to create sheet music, read musical notation and chord symbols and change the key of the music to whatever is needed. He can record any of the above with the live instruments, samples
Live Music Clients
Catalano Fenske, DPS Telecom, KJWL, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno Arts Council, the Downtown Fresno Partnership, The Pink Show, Chris Sorensen Gallery, CSUF, BSK and Associates, Grunfos Pumps, The Fresno Library Council, Pearson Realty, Central California Rehabilitation Association and the Fresno Music Academy and Arts.
Recent Recording Projects
- October 2014 arranged and produced tracks for ten original songs written by Astrid Plane, lead singer for Animotion. The quintet had four rehearsals with the artist and all ten tracks recorded “live to multitrack” in one ten-hour block in late November at Maximus Media, Fresno.
- Sciandra Family double CD project of old-time fiddle music and popular songs of 1900 to 1935.
- Heart of the Valley Patrick Contreras and Steve Ono September 2013 to June 2014.
Discography
Heart of the Valley Patrick Contreras and Steve Ono 2014
- Fingerpaint and Folksongs Steve Ono 2011
- Appassionata: Live at the Auberry Library Patrick Contreras and Steve Ono 2011
- Music in Teak Hans York & Steve Ono 2010
- For the Camps featuring Steve Ono Greg Lawson 2009
- Smokin’ Steve Ono & Eddie Gordon 2005
- Voice of a Friend Steve Ono 1996
Available at CDBaby, Itunes, Amazon
with Hans York have been on rotation at the radio station at the KJWL or Jewel FM in 2014 and 2015.
Publications
- “Beginnings 1 and 2” includes all of my beginning guitar lessons.
- “Cheap Tricks for the Lazy Guitarist” is an easy guide to using basic guitar chords inventively and learn new chords too.
- “Folksinger 101” is for children and is even more basic than “Beginnings.”
- “Can Ambitious Guitarists Even Dream? 1, 2 and 3” Yes, they can! The guitar has a pattern of five Chord Types. Vol 1 is chords, vol 2 is arpeggios and vol 3
is scales . - “Interval Graphics” is a complete graphics layout of the guitar neck with music functions outlined and interval formulas described.
- “Music Theory is NOT Nuclear Physics” is a free PDF available online.