BIOGRAPHY

New Roots Duo is a unique combination of finger-style guitarists Ben Woolman and Dan Schwartz. Based in the Twin Cities, both artists have successful solo careers performing throughout the country but have now joined forces to write, record, and perform music as a duo. Together, exploring new terrain and new instruments (acoustic baritone guitar and acoustic lap-steel guitar respectively), they are creating the finest music of their careers.

A sampling of their career highlights:

• Between the two of them they have over 15 CDs and thousands of shows to their credit. They have worked with a constellation of musical greats including Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Billy McLaughlin, Dean Magraw, Peter Mayer, Tim Sparks and Pat Donohue.
• Both have written for and have been featured in several national/International guitar magazines including: Guitar Player, Guitar Teacher, Acoustic Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar and Chitarre.
• Both have been featured artists on the Internationally released Narada compilations: Masters of Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Fingerstyle 1 and Guitar Fingerstyle 2.
• Their music can be heard around the world on various international radio outlets as well as Minnesota and National Public Radio programming.
• Both are graduates of the University of Milwaukee / Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Guitar Program.

Instrumentation
Ben Woolman - acoustic baritone guitar
Dan Schwartz - acoustic lap-steel guitar

Discography
Roots Run Deep (Peacefire Productions)

Ben's solo releases:
Lost in Density (Floating Feather)
Stratovox (Floating Feather)
Wisdom/Delusion (Floating Feather)

Dan's solo releases:
The Art of Making Fire (Peacefire)
Dan Schwartz (Peacefire)

Compilations:
American Finger-style Guitar - Circa 1999 (Peacefire)
Guitar Finger-style 1 (Narada)
Guitar Finger-style 2 (Narada)
Masters of Acoustic Guitar (Narada)
Solo Guitar (Compass)
World Guitars (Compass)
Classical Guitar Christmas (Compass)