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Recent Examples of guitarist
Richards will perform with guitarist Lenny Smith with the Lenny Smith Project.
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Finch Walker,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
The headliners are The Breaks, a jazz/funk/roots super-trio of sorts featuring Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, Greyboy Allstars organist Robert Walter, and New Mastersounds guitarist Eddie Roberts.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
For good measure, Shinyribs is led by singer, guitarist and ukulele player Kevin Russell, whose previous bands include The Gourds and Picket Line Coyotes.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 July 2026
Yes, Anjana Vasan is can’t-take-your-eyes-off-her fabulous as a PhD student who moonlights as the guitarist for the eponymous all-female, all-Muslim punk band.
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Sara Netzley,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 July 2026
The band — which consists of Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Anika Nilles, who replaced Neil Peart following his death in 2020 — will head out on an international tour in 2027.
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Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
Arcy Drive is Mateyunas, drummer Brooke Tuozzo, guitarist Austin Jones, and bassist Patrick Helrigel.
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Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2026
Both are the newest members of the band, after Castle Rat’s original lead guitarist and bassist left shortly before the release of the debut album.
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Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
29 June 2026
Jeff Tweedy, a native of downstate Belleville, played with alt country band and later became the lead guitarist and founder of renowned indie band Wilco.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
The headliners are The Breaks, a jazz/funk/roots super-trio of sorts featuring Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, Greyboy Allstars organist Robert Walter, and New Mastersounds guitarist Eddie Roberts.
—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
For good measure, Shinyribs is led by singer, guitarist and ukulele player Kevin Russell, whose previous bands include The Gourds and Picket Line Coyotes.
—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 July 2026
Yes, Anjana Vasan is can’t-take-your-eyes-off-her fabulous as a PhD student who moonlights as the guitarist for the eponymous all-female, all-Muslim punk band.
—
Sara Netzley,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 July 2026
The band — which consists of Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Anika Nilles, who replaced Neil Peart following his death in 2020 — will head out on an international tour in 2027.
—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
Arcy Drive is Mateyunas, drummer Brooke Tuozzo, guitarist Austin Jones, and bassist Patrick Helrigel.
—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2026
Both are the newest members of the band, after Castle Rat’s original lead guitarist and bassist left shortly before the release of the debut album.
—
Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
29 June 2026
Jeff Tweedy, a native of downstate Belleville, played with alt country band and later became the lead guitarist and founder of renowned indie band Wilco.
—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guitarist
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The headliners are The Breaks, a jazz/funk/roots super-trio of sorts featuring Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, Greyboy Allstars organist Robert Walter, and New Mastersounds guitarist Eddie Roberts.
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The head drummer of the colonial fife and drum band was a Black man in a Revolutionary War costume, his dreadlocks peeking from under a powdered wig.
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Drones and water choreography, acrobats, and a floating pianist paired with over-the-top performances by Leona Lewis and opera singer Joseph Calleja transformed the night into a spectacle.
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The Fremont software engineer and entrepreneur has carved out a bustling career as a jazz pianist, a realm where children of the Great Depression share the bandstand with Gen Z teenagers.
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Lavers is riding with the same crew as the first go-around, which includes his partner McGrory, who sings under the alias Colle, and the violinist Zachary Paul.
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He is lured by the sound of music down a Montmartre street to Nicholas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), an old friend from his village who has grown up to be a talented violinist and rakish twink.
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The two attempted to keep talking as they were played off by a saxophonist, which host Druski had warned about earlier in the evening.
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The upbeat song in which Jagger envisions the end of the world also features Winwood on piano and organ, Watt on synths and background vocals, saxophonist James King, and trumpeter Ron Blake.
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There are trumpet players and a keyboardist and three different guitarists.
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Led by the husband-and-wife team of singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi and bottleneck guitar master Derek Trucks, the Tedeschi Trucks Band is a welcome anomaly with its lineup of three guitarists, two drummers, two singing percussionists, a keyboardist, a bassist and a three-piece brass section.
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The group’s first album in 16 years reunites Reilly, who survived a stroke in 2011, with longtime percussionist Bruce Mitchell and player-producer Keir Stewart.
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Chinese percussionist Xu Yang told his social media followers the form and style of the drums used on the Great Wall appeared more like a Japanese Taiko performance.
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The director of music and organist says making music in the historic space is a thrill.
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Mihalka profiles several of baseball’s most prominent ballpark organists, including Gladys Goodding, who worked the keys and pedals for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1942 to 1957, and Nancy Faust, who was the organist for the Chicago White Sox from 1970 to 2010.
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For composer and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Christopher Crenshaw, that collective spirit is the music’s genius.
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The core group now augments itself with the bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and, for the first time in the band’s history, vocals.
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“Guitarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guitarist. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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