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Follow on Google News | Teen Guitar Prodigy Matthew Davidson Invited To Join “Brotherhood of the Guitar”Acclaimed photographer Robert Knight has invited fifteen-year-old Matthew Davidson of Shreveport, LA to join “The Brotherhood of the Guitar”, a project launched by Knight and sponsored by Fender Guitar, Guitar Center, and Ernie Ball.
By: Magnet Music Knight’s decades of musical portraits and concert photography are chronicled in the book “Rock Gods: Forty Years of Rock Photography” Knight first noticed Davidson in December of 2011. A freshman at Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport, Matthew Davidson released his debut recording in 2012, produced by legendary bassist Joe Osborn. The 4-track EP titled “Step Up” is a blend of Matthew’s diverse musical influences, from rock to blues, and is available on iTunes. Davidson got his first taste of guitar at the age of three, when he received a toy guitar for Christmas. In 2007, he won his first electric guitar in the James Burton Foundation’s Guitar Showdown. Since then, he’s won numerous accolades, including being named the recipient of the 2011 Robert Johnson Blues Foundation New Generation Award and being selected as the 2011 Kidd Kraddick Rock Camp Guitarist. He’s performed at the Dallas House of Blues, B.B. King’s Blues Club in Memphis, Pinetop Perkins Homecoming, and The Ellis Marsalis Center in New Orleans. Matthew fronts The Matthew Davidson Band, a 4-piece teen band which has played at The New Orleans Jazz Fest, The State Fair of Louisiana, The King Biscuit Blues Festival, and numerous other festivals and venues. Robert Knight's video of Matthew Davidson can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/ For more information: http://www.matthewdavidson.net http://www.facebook.com/ End
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