Free live-stream concert

The concert will air Jan 16 at 7PM EST. The performance will be held on Youtube 

The Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts is proud to present this free live-streamed concert. Tyler will be focusing on traditional music & bluegrass-related Flatpick style material, with some originals included songs and instrumentals.

National Flatpicking Champion Tyler Grant is an internationally recognized guitar virtuoso, songwriter, vocalist and leader of the band Grant Farm®. Tyler has appeared at most major US festivals and performed thousands of concerts and guitar workshops worldwide. He was an original member of the Emmitt-Nershi Band and was a sideman for Abigail Washburn, April Verch and Adrienne Young. He has produced five solo albums and six releases by Grant Farm on his own Grant Central Records. His 2018 collaborative release, Kanawha County Flatpicking, reached #14 on the US Folk DJ chart. The latest Grant Farm album, Broke In Two, released June 2019, is an ambitious concept album which furthers the stories of characters and archetypes introduced on the previous release, Kiss The Ground. Tyler was also host of the Meeting on the Mountain® LIVE Broadcast, a radio-style musical program based in Fort Collins, CO, from 2015-2018. 

In addition to the National Flatpicking Championship at Winfield in 2008 and Merlefest Doc Watson Guitar Championship in 2009, Tyler has also won the Rockygrass, Wayne Henderson, and the New England Flatpicking Championships. He has been featured in Acoustic Guitar, Flatpicking Guitar, Fretboard Journal and Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. Tyler has been an instructor at CalArts (where he earned is BFA in Guitar Performance), Rockygrass Academy, Sore Fingers UK, Kaufman Kamp, Augusta Heritage Center Bluegrass Week, Grand Targhee Bluegrass Camp, Julian Family Fiddle Camp, Nimblefingers, St. Louis Flatpick and JamPlay.com among others. Tyler performs over 200 shows per year and lives in Denver, Colorado, when he is not on the road.

TCFA continues our regular programming in various venues around the area. Save the date while we continue to work on firming up our locations.


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40th Annual Fall Invitational

Forge Cellars on Seneca Lake; Burdett, NY


Sat. Nov. 2

Dia de Muertos Mask Making Workshop

St. James the Apostle Church

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Sat. Nov. 9

Tenzin & Emmett Scott

Lodi Historical Building; Lodi, NY


Sat. Dec. 7

Handmade Holiday

St. James the Apostle Church

Trumansburg, NY


Sat. Dec. 14

HORIZON Art Show Closing Reception

Forge Cellars; Burdett, NY

Sun. Jan. 26

Can Give Concert

Ulysses Philomathic Library; Trumansburg, NY

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Sat. Feb. 8

Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo

First Unitarian Society of Ithaca

Ithaca, NY


Sun. Mar. 9

TOiVO Spring Forward Dance

Enfield Valley Grange; Ithaca, NY


Fri. Mar. 14       

Kilrush

St. Paddy's Day Weekend Kickoff 

- Fundraiser for Ovid Fire Relief -

Ovid VFW; Ovid, NY


Sun. Apr. 27

Spring Music Recital

First Presbyterian Church; Trumansburg, NY

Fri. May 2         

CayAC Spring Show

CSMA Art Gallery; Ithaca, NY


May 17-18

Spring Dance Recital

Trumansburg HS Auditorium; Trumansburg, NY

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