Sara-Ann Russo

Sara Ann is currently serving as Studio Director of Freeway Music Northeast and Freeway Music’s Director of Marketing and Brand Development. She has had a passion for music since she […]

Don Russo

Don Russo has been playing for 22 years and providing private instruction for 13 years. Don’s Playing Career: Don began playing in bands in high school and continued through a […]

Drew Medlin

Drew Medlin has been playing guitar for over twenty years. He started teaching in 2002, offering lessons on bass and guitar. He also has taught mandolin and ukulele. Drew started […]

Tony Lee

My playing career began in the smallest of towns in South Carolina’s Pee Dee region, Floydale. Watching my first parade in Latta, SC, at the age of 10, I knew […]

A.J. Lang

A.J. Lang, a former student of two Columbia greats – Don Russo and Robert Newton – began studying the guitar at age 14.  A native of Chapin, South Carolina, he […]

Amos Hoffman

Amos Hoffman is an Israeli Jazz Guitarist and Oudist known worldwide as a pioneer in fusing the rhythms and melodic themes of the Middle East with Modern Jazz. Hoffman started […]

Walter Hemingway

Walt has been playing music since the age of 6 when he was handed a trumpet 30 minutes before marching and playing “Jingle Bells” in the Georgetown Christmas parade, after a […]

Bobby Hatfield

Bobby Hatfield is a Columbia native who lives in Columbia with his wife, Elise, their son, and their 2 cats. He is currently the lead vocalist/pianist of the indie rock […]

Jim Graddick

Jim Graddick started playing the violin in the Blythewood Middle School Orchestra at the age of ten. A year later, he was playing fiddle and mandolin on stage at Bill’s […]

Collin Danker

Hello!  I am from Columbia, SC and started playing drums at the young age of 8 years old.  I began with private lessons on the drum set which continued throughout high […]