Trace Bundy

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Trace Bundy
Bundy performing with multiple capos
Born	Trace Bundy (1977-06-23) June 23, 1977 Austin, Minnesota
Education	University of Colorado
Spouse	Married
Children	2 boys
Musical career
Genres	Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar
Occupations	Guitarist, Songwriter
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1999–present
Labels	United Interests
Website	www.tracebundy.com
Signature
External videos [1] Click for video], Trace Bundy - Pachelbel's Canon [2] Click for video], Trace Bundy - Sweet Child O' Mine

Trace Bundy is an right handed instrumental acoustic guitar player who lives and performs in Boulder, Colorado. He is known to fans as "The Acoustic Ninja" for his legato and finger tapping skills. In 2016 a short film about Bundy (Accoustic Ninja) was produced and entered in 6 film festivals. Bundy's guitar playing style is percussive and harmonic: he plays with both hands on the fretboard, intricate finger picking arpeggios and inventive use of multiple capos. He was showcased and eventually discovered on websites such as YouTube and Facebook.

Career

Bundy's first musical release was in 1999 with "O Night Divine", a collection of traditional Christmas songs. His next recording, containing all original songs, was 2000's "Solomon's Splendor".

In October 2004 he released a CD/DVD combo titled "Adapt". The DVD shows a live concert filmed in Boulder, CO, in the summer of 2004.

Many clips from this DVD circulated on YouTube and have received well over twenty-one million views. Some of the more popular clips are Trace covering the Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way", and Pachelbel's Canon performed on an acoustic guitar using the fingertapping technique. Following this album was "A Few Songs For Christmas", an EP of more Christmas songs released in December 2007.

In 2008, Bundy's released "Missile Bell", a two-part project, consisting of a studio CD, a live CD, and a DVD filmed live at the Boulder Theater in November, 2007. Also in 2008, Bundy was named "Most Promising New Talent of the Year" by Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and came in third in the same magazine's "Best Fingerstyle Guitarist of the Year" category.

On February 29, 2012 Trace announced via his Facebook page that his new album, "Elephant King", would be released on May 1, 2012.

In 2014 Bundy was the winner of the ESPN SportsCenter Fan Jam contest and he performed live on the popular sports show beginning at 9 a.m. EST Tuesday at ESPN studios in Bristol, Conn.

In 2016 he was the subject of a short film "Acoustic Ninja"by Robert Devis. The film was an official selection of 6 film festivals and was a Finalist at the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival (2017)

Style

Bundy is a fingerstyle guitarist. He gave up using a guitar pick in high school. He picks the strings with the five fingers of his right hand, and also uses those fingers for tapping and creating harmonics.

Early life

Bundy was born in Austin, Minnesota and later moved to the small town of Buena Vista, Colorado. He first started playing guitar when he was 11 years old.

Bundy met Jonah Werner (now an acclaimed acoustic folk songwriter) in high school and started playing with him at a local coffee shop in Buena Vista. The duo played mostly Jack'o'Pierce and other various folk songs. Bundy then met Tim Thornton from Newcomers Home and started playing old Dylan and Cat Stevens tunes. They all attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and still continue to play together from time to time. Before pursuing his music career in a full-time capacity, Bundy was an engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Discography

Releases on the Honest Ninja Music label:

• O Night Divine (1999)
• Solomon's Splendor (2000)
• Adapt (2004)
• A Few Songs for Christmas EP (2007)
• Missile Bell (2008)
• Elephant King (2012)

External links

• Official Trace Bundy Web site
• Official Myspace Profile