Jeremy Cotton

Jeremy was born into a musical family and had the privilege of exploring many musical situations growing up.  He took almost every offered opportunity (and sometimes invited himself) to play clarinet, saxophone, acoustic bass and guitar in the concert and marching bands, pep bands, jazz band, orchestra, and various school musicals throughout high school.

He went on to complete his music degree and did graduate work at Bowling Green State University.  Although his formal education focused on music education he quickly realized high school classroom teaching was probably karmic punishment for past and future sins and focused instead on private lessons and performance opportunities until having his first child made the “struggling musician” trope less workable. 

In the last several decades, he has by his own rough reckoning taught several hundred guitar students, and played guitar and bass in a variety of musical situations including a summer of country music at Cedar Point, blues gigs in the Dallas and Houston areas, polkas in Cleveland, solo and group jazz performances everywhere, countless wedding receptions throughout Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, and a near-infinite number of bar gigs.