Excerpt of new piece for guitar, with bass and synth pad

Made It This Far (edit)

Excerpt of an original tune for an upcoming video game release

Pirate Game Excerpt 3

From a new video game score. Instrumentation: Guitars, electric bass, chamber strings, bodhran, uilleann pipes and fiddle

Don Ross Game Excerpt JUNE 3 2021

A taste of a new ballad for baritone guitar that I plan to orchestrate

Highway of Tears

Excerpt of a new idea for a space-themed video game in development

SPACE GAME 1

EYE MUSIC plays a Don Ross tune at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1988.

Oilver Schroer: violin
Mark Duggan: marimba
David Woodhead: fretless bass
Don Ross: guitar

Kehewin (excerpt)

City of this Outer World (gaming music)

All Four Directions

TOMBUA

Excerpt from an original arrangement of a classic Jaco Pastorius composition, featuring Michael Manring on fretless bass guitar and the Prince Edward Island-based string quintet The Atlantic String Machine. Recorded at the Goby Fish Digital Aquarium in Charlottetown, PEI and at Michael Manring's studio in Oakland, California.

Three Views of a Secret (featuring Michael Manring and the Atlantic String Machine)

AS EDDIE LEAVES THE BUILDING

Don's dobro tune dedicated to the late Gracie the Wonder Dog

GRACIE'S TUNE

WATER

THE WORLD DIDN'T CHANGE (AFTER ALL)

SEABRIGHT

Excerpt from a duet performance by Bruce Cockburn and Don Ross of Bruce's beautiful tune "Stained Glass," from Don's upcoming album release WATER, on GFM Records.

Stained Glass (Bruce Cockburn and Don Ross duet) Excerpt

Don Ross Louder Than Usual plays Don's tune "Jesse Helms' Night in Havana" live at the Aeolian Hall in London, Ontario, February 20, 2019. Featuring Don Ross on guitar, Joe Davidian on piano, Marito Marques on drums, Jordan O'Connor on bass. Recorded live from the sound board by Jason Cabanaw. Remixed by Don Ross using Spectralayers 10 on December 1 2023

JESSE HELMS' NIGHT IN HAVANA Live in London, Ontario

Don collaborates with legendary guitarist/songwriter Bruce Cockburn on a tune that Bruce compoased.

STAINED GLASS

Don's song about travelling in a Canadian winter, rearranged for strings, wtih special guests Brooke Miller and The Atlantic String Machine

ANY COLOUR BUT BLUE

Don's arrangement of the classic Jaco Pastorius tune, in collaboration with fretless bass legend Michael Manring and Prince Edward Island's resident string quintet, The Atlantic String Machine

THREE VIEWS OF A SECRET

Sean Hall joins Don for this collaboration, with Don adding some orchestration

MESMERIZED

Brooke Miller joins Don in a duet performance of Don's dedication to great Brazilian musician Egberto Gismonti

OBRIGADO (EGBERTO)

An excerpt from Don's new interpretation of a great song by Joey Dosik, for his upcoming solo vocal album. Don sings, and plays: acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass, keyboards & organ and composed a string arrangement. 

RUNNING AWAY last verse, chorus and ending

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Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer with 30 years' experience. I write for all media, symphonic instruments, solo guitar, electronica, jazz/rock/soul. I've performed around the world and have scored for film, television and radio.

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