Eric Maring

A indigenous of Washington, D.C., folk-pop vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Eric Maring experienced performed all over the world, including gigs mainly because far reaching mainly because Lima, Peru, and Calcutta, India, nonetheless it was at a hometown establishment, Franklyn’s Coffeehouse Café, where he kept down a every week residency (and perfected his build) from 1997 through 1999. 2001 noticed the discharge of Maring’s debut record, Birdsong (over the Orchard label), which both musically and lyrically included personal references to his encounters vacationing Asia and SOUTH USA, even while including components of rock and roll, pop, and folk. Maring can be quite an achieved acoustic guitarist, who frequently experiments with alternative tunings, fingerpicking, and strumming designs. His debut became quite a wealthy one sonically, as he included into the music such uncommon equipment being a dulcimer from Thailand, a 12-string Portuguese electric guitar, an eight-string Peruvian charango, a Peruvian flute named an Okarina, and a distinctive percussion instrument known as the Joia Pipes, and was became a member of by such guests as guitarist Josh Michaud, vocalists Gregory Heelan and Lisa Moscatiello, plus drummers Steve Fox and Robbie Magruder.