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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Chris Conway has built his music career in Leicester, UK.

Getting a handle on Chris Conway’s music can seem tricky for the casual observer - because he does so much! You might know him as …
1. a singer and writer of acoustic songs.
2. a jazz pianist and singer.
3. a world fusion musician.
4. a producer of many ambient and new age recordings.
5. a thereminist, creating cosmic electronic music.
6. a player of jigs and reels in a Celtic band.
7. a singer space songs at a filk convention.

He works in and across many genres - singer-songwriter, jazz, world music fusion, ambient & new age, Celtic, electronic, and filk.

Chris Conway is a true multi-instrumental wizard playing… piano, keyboards, 9string acoustic & electric guitars, low, tin & twin whistles, live electronics, kalimba, theremin, zither, and vocals.

He has worked with a very diverse set of top musicians - he’s played with members of Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention and toured with Peter Tork (from the Monkees). He’s also played with composer Gavin Bryars, and new age stars Llewellyn & Juliana, tabla man Talvin Singh, violin virtuoso Dr L Subramanium, and UK folk singer Martin Carthy. Brazilian jazz diva Ithamara Koorax and UK Folk Vikki Clayton have both recorded his songs. He has recorded 5 CDs with sitar maestro Baluji Shrivastav in the Jazz Orient and Re-Orient bands.
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