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musicGreg Carroll
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Cover Music
placeCalgary
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Classic Rock
Alt-Country
Roots
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Greg is a professional musician with a BA in music. Greg has spent the majority of his career touring and playing for Canadian country music stars and has been featured in Rolling Stone magazine.
Greg Carroll is an accomplished musician who’s career started at the young age of 16. A native of St George’s NFLD & member of QALIPU MI’KMAQ First Nations Band, Greg started playing guitar @ age 9, by 16 had started playing bass in his first band. In 1996 Greg attained a B.A. in Music from ST Francis Xavier University where he studied Jazz & upright bass under Skip Beckwith (Ann Murray fame) then headed west where he hit the road with various country bands all over western Canada By 2000, Greg moved to Calgary & started playing & recording with guitar legend Amos Garrett. That tenure would last 16 years . During that time Greg started teaching music privately & doing solo gigs , performing songs of his songwriting hero’s John Prine, Steve Earle & Kris Kristofferson. It was during this time, Greg started writing his own songs. However bass duties would be a priority when in 2010 Chad Brownlee came calling. Greg played festivals all over North America including several television performances on the CCMAS , Junos , not to mention several music videos & radio. During that time he also toured with country stars Lindsay Ell & Jess Moskaluke.
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Art type: Live Music
Music type: Cover Music
What this Artist plays most of the time
Genre: Classic RockAlt-CountryRoots
Home base: Calgary
Appeals most (but not limited) to: Broad audience appeal
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Hayden Block
2024/08
One Eleven
2024/09
Brewsters
2024/10
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