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Tony
Fazio has extensive experience in performing and teaching blues on guitar and bass. He has a bachelors degree in music
from Berklee College of Music, along with a musical family, whose dad got him interested in playing guitar in church since
he was 7 years old. Right after Berklee, Tony got experience playing with Memphis Gold, Bobby Parker and Charlie Sayles,
3 of the big DC blues Artists. Tony has toured all over the world with bands in places such as: Puerto Rico, Honduras,
Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Cuba to Alaska and United State, and has performed at the Kennedy Center twice
with two different bands and the Washington Monument Smithsonian Folklife Festival. His last tour was of Belgium included
Brugges, Kortjik, Gent, Brussels and many other cities in Belgium. Tony
has also played american blues guitar at many of the major blues festivals from United States to Europe, including: Chesapeake
Bay Blues Festival 3 times with 3 different bands, two playing guitar, and one on bass, BlueBird blues Festival, Hot August
Blues Festival, Smithsonian Folklife festival, DC Blues Society Blues Festival, Baltimore Blues society Blues Festival, Tinner
Hill Blues Festival, Blues festival in Eslov, Sweden, Blaublues festival in Belgium, Blues 2000 & 3 festival in New York,
Downhome Blues Festival in South Carolina, Big Lick Blues Festival, Roanoke, Va, Greenbelt Blues Festival, Greenbelt, MD,
Riverfront Blues Festival, Wilmington, DE, Low country Bluesbash in South Carolina, Mid Atlantic Music and Arts Festival,
Eastern Bayside wine and Blues Festival, Pee Dee Blues Bash in Florence, SC, BBQ Battle Festival in DC, Kennedy Center
for the opening of Martin Scorsese's Blues documentary, Kennedy Center Millennium stage with Memphis Gold, Several USO tours
including entertaining the troups at GITMO, cuba, Honduras, Alaska, puerto Rico. These Festivals Tony performed at included
many national performers on the same festival such as: James Brown, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Shameka Copeland, Duke
Robillard, Deanna Bogart, Bobby Parker, Spyro Gyra, Los Lobos, Jimmy Cliff, etc. Tony
is currently performing with the Stacy Brooks Band, Electrofied Blues Band, and Charlie Sayles and the Blues Disciples. Tony
is also on the new Memphis Gold Cd which is being played on BB King and Bill Wax's Bluesville on satellite radio. It
was one of the top cds played in march, 2009. Check out the Band Information Page on the left to find out about american
blues guitar, USA blues guitar, Stacy Brooks Band, Electrofied, Charlie Sayles and the Blues Disciples featuring Tony Fazio,
Blues in Washington DC, blues in Maryland, Blues in Annapolis, Blues on the Radio, blues online streaming radio, internet
blues, blues on the internet, Electrofied Bad Case of the Blues, Tony Fazio on guitar, Blues Festivals, blues from the south
Carolina, etc
Quotes on Tony Fazio from Guitar Blues Legend Bobby Parker "
Fazio, A Baad Man, Multi Talented, Wear's many hat's
"Guitar Blues Legend " Bobby Parker "
"Tony, Slick , Got Big ears, Can Hear a Rat P..s on cotton,
Yall watch this guy, He Good,
Guitar Blues Legend, Bobby Parker"
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| Tony at DC Blues Society Fish Fry with Electrofied |
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| Tony at Quai Du Blues in Paris, France with Legendary Harmonicist, Charlie Sayles, 2003 |
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| Tony Fazio and Stacy Brooks band at Big lick Blues Festival 2009 |
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| Tony Fazio and Stacy Brooks band at Big lick Blues Festival 2009 |
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The Annapolis Guitar
School has Expanded into the Annapolis Music School and has added a soundproof studio, 3 soundproof lesson rooms, one of them
has a full drum kit set up, one room has an upright piano and we have a waiting room with tv for parents.
All styles
and levels taught, from beginning to advanced, and from rock, blues, jazz to country, folk and funk. If you are looking for guitar lessons in the annapolis area, or guitar lessons
in the Maryland area, or online live guitar lessons from you home, visit the annapolis music school link page on the left.
Click here to see a video of Tony playing with the blues band Hugh Feeley and Talk is Cheap
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| Photo taken by Avie Schneider |
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| Tony with Nadine Rae and the Allstars at the Tinner Hill blues Festival June, 2009 |
- Tony performs extesively in the Washington D.C., Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington DC and Europe. Please click on "Performance
Schedule" page to find out where he is playing.
- The Annapolis Guitar School now has a Music store inside the school.
It sells guitars, amps, music books, strings, amps, tuners and other musical accessories.
- The Annapolis Music School's
address is
1666 Bay ridge Rd
Edgewater, md 21037
- TO CONTACT TONY FAZIO AND THE ANNAPOLIS MUSIC SCHOOL CALL
410-224-4652
- Or email at annapolismusicschool@verizon.net
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