Tom Godfrey
When I suffered a lip injury that ended my career as a classical trombonist, I thought my life as a musician was finished, but I fell in love with music all over again when Santa gave me a guitar for Christmas in 2003. Even as I was struggling with my first chords, I was planning a new performance career. As a trombonist, I performed with the Heritage of America Band at Langley Air Force Base, the Ohio Light Opera, and in pick-up bands for touring acts that included Rosemary Clooney, George Burns, and the Manhattan Transfer. Reborn as a jazz guitarist, I sing and play my own solo arrangements of jazz classics, perform with the vocal combo Tea for Two, perform in musicals with Act3 Productions, and am a founding member of InTown Band. I have been a freelance music copyist since 1995 and was been named music director at Northwestern Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Sandy Springs, GA.
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