Biography

Geoff Bartley (1948 - ?) is a prize-winning acoustic finger-style folk-blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and harmonica player. In December 2009, he released his ninth full-length CD “Put the Big Stone Down” including Blue Moon on New Years Eve, Muscle for the Wing, and The Cat Song. Several of Geoff’s earlier songs have been recorded by other artists in the US, Canada, and Ireland, and some are included in the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings of the Fast Folk Musical Magazine collection in Washington, D.C. Since 1994 Geoff has been northeast accompanist for topical songwriter and veteran folk entertainer Tom Paxton, and in the 1980s, Geoff won four guitars at the National Fingerpicking Championships in Winfield, Kansas. Geoff presents two nights of acoustic music each week at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both nights have been voted Best of Boston. He lives in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts.