Livingston Taylor picked up his first guitar at the age of 13, which began a storied career that has encompassed performance, songwriting, and teaching. Born in Boston and raised in North Carolina, he is the fourth child in a very musical family that includes Alex, James, Kate, and Hugh. Described as equal parts Mark Twain, college professor, and musical icon, Taylor has written top-40 hits recorded by his brother James and has appeared with Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Fleetwood Mac, and Jimmy Buffet. Taylor maintains a performance schedule of more than a hundred shows a year, delighting audiences with his charm and vast repertoire of his 22 albums and popular classics. He is equally at home with a range of musical genres - folk, pop, gospel, jazz - and from upbeat storytelling and touching ballads to full orchestra performances.
From top 40 hits “Carolina Day,” “Get out of Bed,” “I Will Be in Love with You” and “I’ll Come Running,” to “I Can Dream of You” and “Boatman,” Taylor’s creative output has been unabated. Of his stage show, Taylor says, “A performance is a conversation between you and an audience,” and in 2022 he remarked, “People come and hear me play because at the end of it, they feel relief from anxiety. They feel better about themselves and about the choices they have made. That’s why they come and hear me play. They’re going to feel better on the back side.”
Born in New Jersey to immigrant parents, Pete Muller began playing piano as a teenager. After excelling at Princeton University, and helping revolutionize the field of quantitative trading – transforming Wall Street as we know it – Muller returned to music. “Once I accomplished everything that I’d set out to do in the business world, I realized that I hadn’t nurtured the artistic side of my life,” he explains. These days, Muller is more content than ever, embracing and over or as he splits his time between the East and West Coasts, carving his own unique and inspiring path through the pair of vastly different, yet ultimately complementary worlds he’s created for himself.
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