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Duet Featuring World Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort and Tabla Virtuoso Vishal Nagar

Got Rhythm? Get the Beats of Africa, Bali, and India with Ancient Future Leader Matthew Montfort

Mariah Paker's Indo Latin Jazz Sextet performs a live concert recording session 1/20/13 at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage. Mariah's music blends the driving rhythms of Latin jazz, the uplifting spirit of Eastern music, and the soul of flamenco.

Celebrate the end of the 5125 year Mayan calendar with Ancient Future. Latest Ancient Future CDs on sale, plus spend $51.25 or more and receive free promo copy of Ancient Future's World Without Walls featuring End of the Beginning. Ends 12/21/2012.

Scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort is on DigitalDreamDoor.com's 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists list with Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Tommy Emmanuel, Pierre Bensusan, Alex De Grassi, Peppino D'Agostino, and many others.

A decade before Hilary Rosen stubbed her toe on the truth and ignited a Twitter firestorm by saying that Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life, she helped Matthew Montfort put his foot in his mouth upon meeting Napster CEO Hank Barry.

In February 2012, Ancient Future was nominated for two world music awards: the About.com Reader's Choice World Music Trailblazer and ZoneMusicReporter's Best World Album of 2011.

World Without Walls by Ancient Future with special guest Zakir Hussain was nominated by broadcasters worldwide as ZoneMusicReporter's Best World Album of 2011.

Sympathetic Strings & Resonant Reeds Benefit for Matthew Montfort with Alex de Grassi (guitar), Paul McCandless (reeds), Jon Mendle, (classical guitar), Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz, Teja Gerken & Ronnie Ray Padilla Acoustic Guitar Round-Robin

Ancient Future bandleader and pioneering world music guitarist, Matthew Montfort, is now offering all styles and levels of guitar instruction as well as lessons on any of the subjects on the Ancient Future web site via private Skype lessons.