Tom Eaton
Tom Eaton is a GRAMMY® nominated ambient musician, and 2x GRAMMY® nominated producer, and mastering engineer. Since 1993 he's been helping musicians make and release albums as a recording engineer and producer, and he's been releasing his own music since 2016.
Using vintage and modern synthesizers, Rhodes electric piano electric and lap steel guitars, fretted and fretless basses, myriad sonic sculpting devices, field recordings, and his signature acoustic piano, Tom composes what Ambient Music Guide calls "lush, shadowed, emotional music that's rich in harmonies and oceanic layers and...so deliciously slow."
His 2021 album Brothers with Will Ackerman and Jeff Oster was nominated for the Best New Age GRAMMY® award. Vin and Tom have previously collaborated on the album Seven Conversations with Jeff Oster, and Tom has produced and engineered several of Vin's solo recordings. Tom lives and works in rural New Hampshire.
www.tomeaton.net
Vin Downes
Vin Downes has released nine albums of solo guitar music, seven of which were engineered and produced by Tom. He has performed nationally as a soloist and as Will Ackerman's touring partner. Vin was a member of the group Four Guitars, alongside Will Ackerman, Trevor Gordon Hall, and Todd Mosby. He has also performed and recorded with Tom Eaton and Jeff Oster as part of an improvisational ambient trio.
Vin has written, recorded, and performed music with Will Ackerman, David Crosby, Tom Eaton, Eugene Friesen, Michael Gulezian, Trevor Gordon Hall, Mai Leisz, Tony Levin, Michael Manring, Todd Mosby, Jeff Oster, James Raymond, David Watson (Chops Horns), and Kenny Withrow (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians)
Vin Downes is a public school music teacher in New Jersey, where he currently teaches an award winning classical guitar program at Bayonne High School. His compositions for solo classical guitar, classical guitar ensembles, and the guitar classroom are published by Guitar Chamber Music Press.
www.vindownes.com