"Your performance was phenomenal. There aren't many solo performers I'd hire that can wow an entire festival audience. It's amazing how you can make hundreds of people feel like they're a friend of yours after a single set.
I think you've also converted scores of folks who didn't realize they were Blues fans!" Howard Meirs - Director - Long Island Traditional Music Association |
"The performance you gave us was outstanding in all respects. We consider your concert to have been a total success."
...Sybil Moser, Huntington Folk Music Society
...Sybil Moser, Huntington Folk Music Society
"A real killer with fantastic technique.
He just knocks me out."
- John Hammond
He just knocks me out."
- John Hammond
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Toby Walker - Groovin In New Fairfield - 1/27/18
“Blues raconteur Toby Walker is the real deal. Bringing with him a unique blend of styles encompassing traditional finger picking and slide, blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, and jazz with outrageous story-telling, Toby serves up an evening of what I would call complete entertainment. Whether telling tales of his time on the road (and this man has gotten around), giving a historical perspective of a particular tune he’s about to play, paying homage to his own musical heroes or just letting loose with some spur-of-the-moment humor, there is no time spent idle during a Toby Walker show. And that, I would have to say, does certainly embellish what it is you actually came to hear…..some flat out awesome guitar technique. So good is this man’s synthesis of styles that he has been an instructor at Jorma Kaukonen’s (that’s Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane) Fur Peace Guitar Camp for 7 years to which Jorma has stated, “Flat out…you’ve got to hear this great musician…I’m blown away!”
Jeff Main
“Blues raconteur Toby Walker is the real deal. Bringing with him a unique blend of styles encompassing traditional finger picking and slide, blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, and jazz with outrageous story-telling, Toby serves up an evening of what I would call complete entertainment. Whether telling tales of his time on the road (and this man has gotten around), giving a historical perspective of a particular tune he’s about to play, paying homage to his own musical heroes or just letting loose with some spur-of-the-moment humor, there is no time spent idle during a Toby Walker show. And that, I would have to say, does certainly embellish what it is you actually came to hear…..some flat out awesome guitar technique. So good is this man’s synthesis of styles that he has been an instructor at Jorma Kaukonen’s (that’s Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane) Fur Peace Guitar Camp for 7 years to which Jorma has stated, “Flat out…you’ve got to hear this great musician…I’m blown away!”
Jeff Main