I'm a hard working independent artist, trying to tell my story the best way that I know how to. Im from North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and Im dedicated to my craft, this is what I love to do.

The author of this website lives in Portsmouth, NH.  He has experimented with many styles of music including twisted death metal, commercial bubble gum rap, overrepetitive disco, country ska, messy blues, flaming techno, etc. etc. etc.  His influences include Buju Banton, George Clinton, Eddy Grant, Luciano, Jurassic 5, Chilli Peppers, The Roots, Santana, Stevie Wonder, RATM, Fishbone, Coolio, Us3, Tone-Loc, etc.  He performs in the Seacoast area with Boom Lava and Cocheco Street Jazz.


    I grew up in NYC studying with Guitar Greats like Allen Hanlon, Mike Gari and Bill Connors (Return to Forever).

    I cut my chops in the NYC Clubs playing a variety of styles from Jazz to Funk to Rock.

    When I was not gigging I was making a name as a talented studio player recording as a side man on many alt/indie/rock discs as well as commercial jingles. 

If you ever want to know what hip-hop mixed with heavy metal sounds like, you should go somewhere else.

“Music is a journey into the sub-conscious.”

Influences include:  Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Beck, RHCP, The Beatles, Coldplay, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Shinedown, Genesis, Weezer, The Cranberries, Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac, Chris Cornell, Incubus, Muse, 10,000 Maniacs and more.

Ryan Judd is a Billboard Chart Topping recording artist and is an internationally known music therapist. His unique background as a music therapist and an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist allows him to bring music and well-being into harmony with each other. One of Ryan’s first experiences of the transformative power of music came when he was a young music therapy student going to see his grandmother for the last time. As he walked down the hall with his mom and brother by his side, everything felt cold, melancholy and sterile. The smell of disinfectant was in the air. Ryan entered his grandmother’s dark room and took out his guitar. The music he played broke through the isolation, sadness and fear. After the last notes faded, and tears welled in her eyes, she whispered, “That was good for my heart.” 

In addition to being inspired by healing experiences such as this and his work as a music therapist, Ryan is deeply influenced by guitarist Michael Hedges. When Ryan first saw Michael Hedges play, he was overwhelmed by emotion and knew that he had discovered something that would forever change the course of his life. Ryan has spent decades dedicating himself to mastering fingerstyle guitar and creating his own unique style as a performer and a composer.

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