TAYLOR Guitars chooses Saint Tone!

Tony was one of the 9 artists asked by Taylor Guitars to try out their New Taylor GS Mini prototype travel guitar

before they lunch it to the public in July 2010.

It is bigger than the Baby Taylor and smaller than the average size but it delivers a Great Full sound.

The other 8 artists are Ted Nugent, Pat Monahan & Jimmy Stafford from the band TRAIN, Kevin Bacon, Zak Brown,

baseball pitcher Barry Zitto, film producer Bill Todman, and pro surfer Rob Machado. Taylor picked a diverse bunch

of players and Tony represents the indie artist on the go. Check out Tony's  week long adventure in Costa Rica with

the new guitar in this YouTube clip.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbk2zIJ91dM

December 2009

Saint Tone and rapper J Roc Jones got together for the Best of the Bay Hip Hop competition in Ybor City, FL at

The Ritz Theater. Out of 39 acts we took 3rd place. It was a blast!!

Check out the YouTube clip  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzrpn9c5jqQ

February 23- 28, 2010

We flew out to San Diego, CA to perform several shows for the  ASI Conference at the San Diego Conference Center where I got to meet Tony Robbins ( The Motivational Speaker)  I've been listening to his CD's and reading his books for years. It was a lot of fun to stand next to him. I'm 6ft tall ; so you can see that he's a Giant! I also went to the Taylor Guitar Factory in El Cajon, CA to talk shop with AnR Rep Bob Borbonus and editor of Wood and Steel Magazine Jim Kirlin and catch up on the latest news about Taylor Guitars.

March 6th, 2010

Saint Tone performed at The 1st Annual Englewood Music Festival in Englewood, FL. I had several newspaper articles and a couple of radio interviews to help promote the show. It was a blast.  Looking forward to next year's event.

March 8-15, 2010

For the 2nd year in a row Saint Tone performed several shows for The International Family Film Festival in Hollywood, CA. This was their 15th year. A special thanks to  Stone Wall Mind for stepping up and helping out -a great San Diego band that performed with us.  We have now  been  chosen as " the official band" for IFFF. We performed  throughout the entire Awards Ceremony with Nancy Cartwright ( the voice of Bart Simpson ) as the host.

We also met 3 of China's hottest young child actors and played a spontaneous song with Shikoa Bi. We just went with the flow.  Here's a YouTube clip of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umxFWjRreLQ&feature=related, and spent some time with Jen and Bill Farmer ( Bill is the voice of Goofy and many other Disney characters)

March 17-21, 2010

Saint Tone performed at the 15th annual Mannafest International Conference in Dallas Texas for the company Mannatech, Inc. We shared the stage with Andy Childs of the band Six Wire. Six Wire was part of the Next Great American Band competition on FOX TV.  We had a great time in front of a packed house.

April 12-19, 2010

Saint Tone performed several shows in Costa Rica. The final show was at the University for Peace where students from around the world learn how to negotiate with governments through non-violence .

You can check out the adventure I had - from playing on the airplane at 37, 000 feet, in a cave under a waterfall - to an open air market, etc. The footage was shot as a promotional video sent to Taylor Guitars

as Tony tried out the New Taylor GS Mini travel guitar.

Check out the YouTube clip  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbk2zIJ91dM

Seminole Music Fest - Great Success

On Sept 25th the band took the stage at the 13th Annual Music in Park Series i

n front of 1000 + fans for a great show. Here’s a quote from one of the producers of the show.

“Saint Tone performed magically getting the audience involved.

His rendition of “In the Air Tonight” may be one of

the single best musical performances in Music in the Park history! “

The International Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico

We flew in on Thur Oct 1st after a crazy lighting storm in Dallas. Played a show on Fri at Misty’s Hideaway, and then Sat at Burt’s Tiki bar across from the University of New Mexico. Saturday night we hung out downtown and then hit the local Casino Santa Anna..

A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to www.mannarelief.org for their Sponsorship and to Brad from Road Runner Auto for hooking us up with a van to drive around town.

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Sunday morning we did an interview with Ch7 KOAT News NBC to promote the show at the Balloon Festival at night.

Took a trip up the Sandia Peak Mountain; and had a Great performance at night at the Balloon Festival.

We had the pleasure of spending a few nights at Rick Derringer’s beautiful house up in the hills of Albuquerque. He and his wife Jenda were both very nice to hang with.

Rick showed us a few of his new custom guitars along with all of his Gold Records on the walls.

He has been nominated to the Vintage Guitar Hall of Fame. If you would like to vote for Rick; follow the link.

http://vintageguitar.com/features/halloffame/

We flew into Chicago; played 4 great shows in 4 days and flew out.

On Mon July 20th the band took the stage at Buddy Guy's Legends Club where we Rocked the bar

playing to a packed house with Buddy Guy himself  in the audience. Legends has been around for over 20 years.

Tue July 21st, we took in the city staying at The Hilton Chicago Hotel  

 located on the "Cultural Michigan Avenue Mile" overlooking Grant Park, Lake Michigan, and Museum Campus.

We had lunch at the Billy Goat Tavern where Saturday Night Live was inspired to write it's famous

Cheezborger skit with John Belushi. Yes; we had cheeseburgers.

Wed July 22nd,  we went to the Crystal Garden Atrium located at the Navy Pier for a short set before boarding

the Spirit of Chicago cruise where we rocked the boat as she sailed into the sunset.

Thur July 23rd, we were off to The Chicago Convention Center where we performed for

The ASI International Convention. It was a great party.

Drove to the air port as we watched President Obama drive by along with 20 police cars and Secret Service.

Hopped on a plane that night and we were back home to Tampa by 12 midnight. A good time had by All!!

Road to History

We just got back from a 4 day trip to Washington DC were the band played at

The Smithsonian Art Museum for The Lincoln 2.0 Inaugural Ball 

on Jan 18th, 2009. Riding up and back in an RV we got to know each other real quick

as the tempuratues dropped down into the teens. A special THANK YOU to: Janie Tevere who spent days upon days on the phones working on all the details to get the band into the gig and keeping us there; to Rick our driver who drove 17 hours non stop up and then back and kept the RV on the road after an 18 wheeler pushed us into a jersey barrier ripping off the front end of the RV.Great Driving ; to Mick Weick our soundman who walked in and took controll of running our monitors and the front of the house even after Anita Baker took away our sound check we still sounded better than any other band that night. Now we know why he works for Tim McGraw.

Among the performers that night were

Antia Baker, JT Taylor from Kool and the Gang, Keb Mo, and John Cruz.  

We had a great time being part of history!!

We just got back from 2 great shows in Albuquerque, New Mexico

for the International Hot Air Balloon Festival.

We met a ton of great people and have been invited back to perform next year.

Below are some photos of the Ballons and some TV interviews we did.

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