Carleton Page
Carleton D. Page II has been a solid member of the New England Music scene since his early days of guitar 17 years ago. He entered the teaching field at Strings and Things several years ago and is much admired for his teaching skills. Carleton has taught students from 6 years old to 80 years young! He feels that it is critical to adapt to the learning style of each student. Carleton believes age isn’t a factor—there isn’t an age you can’t teach.
Carleton shares his love of the guitar on the local entertainment scene. He has played with many area bands including the former area favorite Lamont Smooth. While playing with “Smooth” he co-wrote two songs on their CD Body. He was the first lead guitarist for the Ron Noyes Band and can be heard on the popular CD Something Else. In a review of this CD in the September 2004 issue of Jam Magazine William A. Huffman wrote, “Page’s Work, in general, is something that in a casual listening could be overlooked because its placement is always perfect. He knows his place, and when he’s given freedom, his solos are wicked.” These groups have opened for acts such as Chris Duarte, Train, Gordon Stone and Percy Hill. Carleton currently can be heard playing the blues with an up and coming local band G C K.
Carleton enjoys combining blues, country, rock, bluegrass and older jazz style such as swing and western swing into his own playing. One of his specialties is Hybrid Picking (a technique using a combination of a guitar pick and fingers). Carleton doesn’t limit himself to simply guitars; he also plays and teaches banjo (3 Finger Style) and mandolin.
He has a deep affection for traditional American music and spends much of his free time learning fiddle tunes and bluegrass songs on the mandolin and banjo.
Carleton is currently accepting new guitar, banjo and mandolin students.
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