About Jeff
	his bio * folks he's played with * venues he's been seen at About Jeff Born in Brooklyn and raised in suburban New Jersey, Jeffrye started out as a drummer in the late 60's playing block dances and upstate clubs with HS rock bands. He picked up the guitar in college where he was a music theory and voice major and performed solo and with friends. After leaving school he took a job at a resort in the Pocono Mtns. and joined the staff band there. Several horn players were recruited from U of WV so he relocated to Morgantown to front a jazz-rock band and learn the finer points of the 70's troubadour lifestyle. This is where he met and joind up with Larry Keen and Richard Pollack and toured all over the country on the NY Coffee House circuit playing original acoustic music to receptive college audiences. After a short stint in Boulder CO he moved to San Diego where he performed solo and in several good original and working cover bands like The Strangers, The East-West Band, Radio Romance, Indoor Fireworks, Roscoe and Streetheart. In the early 90's he started doing sound design, voice-over and soundtrack composition for several video game developers like Park Place and Sega Interactive and helped publish a dozen titles for Sega, Nintendo, Sony and others. In order to generate material to create a trilogy in four parts, he eventually left SoCal and moved to central Maine for four years, where he tried on a new life for size and played as much music as he could (but did not eat lobster or see a moose). After one slick winter (and one ex-wife) too many he pulled up stakes and headed to Austin, Texas, "the live music capitol of the world." While going solo once again he got back into game development for a couple of years nut got downsized for good in the tech bust of 2002. So he got back to doing what he knows best, performing live as a soloist and as a sideman for many of the performing songwriters that call Austin their home. Currently Jeffrye is living solo, working in a busy recording/podcasting/graphic design studio by day and working as a musician by night. He's affliated with Island Soundworks studios in St. Thomas USVI and works as a producer and mastering engineer for them as well as many other performers here in central Texas. He also produces the Austin Connection podcast series featuring many of the best songwriters central Texas has to offer. He has also finally shaved off his beard (again). Some Fine Folks Here are some artists and bands Jeff has performed with, in alphabetical order: Karen Abrahams Stuart Adamson Christine Albert Michael Austin David Beldock Danny Britt Steve Brooks Byrd & Street Craig Calvert Jud Caswell Lawrence Clark Mike Clifford Eddie Collins Ronnie Cox Misha ben David Bruce Demarest Tristan Des Pres Chip Dolan East West Band Edge City The Flyin' A's Chris Gage Ken Gaines Jerry Gontang Kerry Grombacher Seymour Guenther Todd Hoke Dave Hooper Steve Hopkins Cowboy Johnson Kevin Johnson Jubilant Bridge Larry Keen Jeff Lee Bob Livingston Karen Mall Kimberly McCarver Spanky McFarlane Connie Mims Murphy's Lawbreakers Bill Nash Neon Rain Kerry Polk Richard Pollack Amanda Pearcy Gary Puckett Selia Quinn R.J. Keen Band Radio Romance Jenny Reynolds Alton Rex Roscoe Dave Rowe Paul Sanchez Danny Santos Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Jan Seides The Seikers Greg Shupe Suzanne Smith Amilia K. Spicer The Starters The Strangers Streetheart Jean Synodinos Abi Tapia Stephen Taylor Therapy Sisters Gene Warren Kenny Wertz Venues Some Texas Venues Where Jeff Has Been Seen Alligator Grill, Austin Artz Rib House Austin Bergstrom International Airport Austin Folk House Bennigan's, Austin, San Marcos and Cedar Park BB Rover's, 12636 Research Blvd Ste B101 Austin (512) 335-9504 Cactus Cafe Cafe del Rio, 910 W. Young, Llano, (325) 247-2618 Cedar Park House Concert Series Cindy's Gone Hog Wild , 9456 Hwy 71E, Cedar Creek Common Grounds Coffeehouse, Round Rock The Dam Pub, Lake Buchanan Donn's Depot, Austin Down the Alley Bistro, Georgetown Fox and Hound Smokehouse & Tavern, 401 Guadalupe Austin, TX 78701 (512) 494-1200 Georgetown House Concerts The Green Mesquite Gruene Hall Hanovers, 108 E. Main Pflugerville Hole in the Wall, Cedar Park and Round Rock Hondo's Fredricksburg TX Ivory Cat, downtown Austin Jovita's, Austin Kerrville Folk Festival Labyrinth Walk Coffeehouse, Dallas TX Live Oak UU Coffeehouse Longhorn Caverns, Burnet TX MOMO's Mr. Jimmy's House Concerts The Old Oak Icehouse Old Sattler Baking Company Patsy's Cowgirl Cafe Austin TX Ponderosa, 110 Salty St., Thorndale Poodle Dog Inn Riley's Pub, Hunter TX Rhinos and Jocks Rockin' Tomato, Austin Rocky Hill Ranch Saloon Saradora's, Round Rock Ski Shores Waterfront Cafe Tavern in the Gruene Taz Country, Pflugerville, TX Two Brothers Restaurant, Bastrop TX Waterloo Ice House The Wild Ride Saloon Venues from Jeff's Wild and Wooly Past The Bitter End, New York City The Other End, New York City The Earl of Oldtown, Chicago W. Virgina University Morgantown, West Virginia Univ. of Wisconsin: Madison, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Oskosh, Steven's Point and others Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ Rowan (AKA Glassboro) University Glassboro, NJ University of California, San Diego Top a da' Shoppe, Honolulu Madame Wongs and Wongs West, Los Angeles CA Sagebrush Cantina, Calabassas CA Photo credits: header and top photo, Lisa Rogers, all others except where noted, S.A. Kendall
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