Boyd Deering

Boyd Deering

About Boyd Deering

Boyd Deering has accumulated professional experience in bluegrass, jazz, country, rock, and gospel music styles since the age of ten. His introduction to music came from the fiddle playing of his dad and the old-time music scene in Lafayette, Tennessee, an hour from Nashville. The somewhat classical structure of fiddle and bluegrass music captured Boyd’s imagination and energy as he won over seventy first places in mandolin, guitar, and fiddle competitions all over the southeast. The road then lead to Nashville as Boyd played the honky-tonks, rode the tour busses, and even worked at the long-gone Opryland theme park for two years. Boyd performed with six-time CMA Musician of the Year, Mark O'Connor, appeared on numerous TV shows and the Grand Ole Opry, toured with five-time Grammy-nominated violin legend Vassar Clements, performed in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil, and was personally invited by Charlie Daniels to jam on stage with the CDB for a couple of shows in Chicago and Detroit. Boyd also studied music theory for a year at MTSU. In 1996 Boyd landed a four night a week gig in Nashville at Robert’s Western World at the height of the retro-country movement and appeared in “U.S. News and World Report”. Boyd has shared the stage with artists as diverse as Bill Monroe, John Anderson, David Allan Coe, Leroy Troy, the Cumberland Boys, the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, Lark Watts, Ten Cent Whiskey, Brasilbilly, Danni Leigh, and he played fiddle in a Madonna video shoot in Nashville in 2000. Boyd has been a second engineer on numerous Nashville studio projects. He has also been involved as a player on many session recordings in Nashville. Boyd is also a published writer, photographer, and songwriter. Boyd has been involved off and on with professional theater since 1987. He has shared the stage with several serious full-time professional actors in productions such as “Tennessee Strings”, “Fair and Tender Ladies”, “Lost Highway”, “Midsummer Dreaming”, and “Holliday Memories”. A tour of various arts venues is currently being booked to support the release of his newest CD, “Bridges: The Music of Boyd Deering”.

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