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A Brief Biography

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Stacy Phillips is an internationally acclaimed resonator guitarist and violin player. He has performed with the top acoustic musicians over the world. He has three solo albums and is featured artist on the Grammy award-winning album The Great Dobro Sessions. Stacy is the author of over 25 books and DVD's on various aspects of his chosen instruments.

He currently plays with:

The AfroSemitic Experience , a six piece group performing jazz approaches to the sacred music of the African and Jewish diasporas
Stacy Phillips and Paul Howard Duet , an acoustic duet playing Americana and original music (from jazz and originals to Caribbean and Hawaiian).
Three Finger Poi, a Hawaiian music band (vocalist and two authentic hula dancers available for our performances)
Heroes of Tradition, myself and Phil Zimmerman, playing old time country music, mostly fiddle and guitar, but we like to add stuff on dobro, mandolin and banjo.
Stacy Phillips and Joe Gerhard, performing American and Irish traditional music. Two masters of these styles trading tunes and insights into the relationship between the the music of these two countries.
Fiddlers 3, illustrating the deep connections between the music of different cultures and the breadth of music on bowed strings - classical, klezmer and fiddling!
The Swivets, contra dances with Ellen Cohn on piano and Baba David Coleman on percussion.

For more information about these groups, please contact me at

archdukeZ@stacyphillips.com (please type the above address into your email program deleting the "Z". This is to avoid spam.)

Some quotes about Stacy Phillips

"Stacy Phillips is one of the hottest pickers around."
- - - Guitar Player magazine

"The best jazz dobro player you've ever heard."
- - - All About Jazz on line magazine at http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_200701.pdf

"Stacy Phillips hits almost every high point on this new release ("From the Inside), from klezmer to Hawaiian to bluegrass to Western Swing. This album is just damn beautiful, and if I don't write about it here, you may miss it. Phillips has a masterful touch on one of my favorite instruments. . . Listening to this album is like listening to Gabby Pahinui, or Mississippi John Hurt, or your favorite gentle, totally fluid, totally present practitioner of American roots musics. [GRADE: A+]" - - -The Klezmer Shack (on line album reviews) at http://www.klezmershack.com/

"Stacy Phillips playing is compelling and moving."
- - - Acoustic Guitar magazine

". . . the fretboard finesse of the sublime Stacy Phillips."
- - - Monday Magazine (BC Canada)

"among the most imaginative and innovative dobro players"
- - -SingOut magazine

"innovative, imaginative,and impressive"
- - - Down Home Music Newsletter

"Outrageously delightful Dobro playing. Exquisite playing. . . lightening fast and tonally immaculate."
- - -Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine

"Resophonic guitar virtuoso. . .stretching the stylistic limits of his instrument."
- - -Dirty Linen - folk music magazine

"Stacy Phillips, his resonator and a slide that just blaze against an already brilliant backdrop. You'd swear the man articulates his own self through that instrument for how he makes it talk and sing. Even when it's joyful it's nearly wrenching for how deeply it moves."
- - - Touring the Indies web site - http://indietour.blogspot.com

If you have any questions contact me at archdukeZ@stacyphillips.com (please type the above address into your email program deleting the "Z". This is to avoid spam.)

Hawaiian Medley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m_HkYEohI4/

Flambee' Montalbanaise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im5WEdAHP8E

Wild Horse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdpRbvucV0k

May Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WakKNsFEcqo

AfroSemitic Experience (photo: Kathleen Cei)

Stacy Phillips & Joe Gerhard

Stacy Phillips and Phil Zimmerman (photo: Marcia Goodman)

Three Finger Poi (photo: Davis)

Here is a link to a video from a recent Three Finger Poi performance of the classic "I'm Pau" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkgRUUzg8s

The night before recording the Great Dobro Sessions CD

Yes, asleep on stage, with Way Out West in Vancouver, WA

For those interested in such things: after many years of playing a ca.1932 mahogany dobro, I now usually play a mahogany Scheerhorn resonator guitar. I use D'Addario phosphor bronze strings gauged 16-18-26-39-49-59.

I have been using a steel bar made by Nigel Sinclair of Victoria, BC, Canada, but I'm liking a new one made by Ron Tipton of Owensboro, KY. He's planning to make a new batch which is great news. When things get hairy in the key of Bb I use a Tipton capo. I trek down to Paul Beard in Hagerstown, MD when I need work done on my guitar.

I use an AudioTechnica condensor "button" mic that Tim Scheerhorn rigged up with a mini-gooseneck that attaches to my cover plate. I have a Schertler contact mic/pickup attached to the underside of the spider and use a stereo cord to go through a Fishman blender. I almost always use the microphone or the pickup, not both.

For custom electronics work for my dobro and violin I rely on Clark Huckaby (http://www.clarkhuckaby.com/ ) whose ability and high level of care about his work I can vouch for. Check out some of the custom work he did for my instruments at his web site.

On fiddle I use D'Addario heavy Helicore strings and a Baggs in-bridge pickup. When I need an amplifier I use an AER Cube Two.