🐘There’s an elephant in the YouTube!🐘 youtube.com/watch?v=M6p29R…

Instead of charging artists for their blue check marks, why not charge for tweeting bogus conspiracy theories and give them a red mark? Start with $44 billion for the Chief Twit's recent deleted tweet.

I'm celebrating Jimi Hendrix Day acoustically with my piece Purple Raga. It's the Hendrix Day version of a vegan Thanksgiving! open.spotify.com/track/1unAttzq…

I've performed at every annual Himalayan Fair since its second year, except for when we got rained out, it was cancelled due to COVID, or I was recovering from an injury. So looking forward to this year!

I've been doing a lot of recording lately on my new Martin scalloped fretboard guitar! ancient-future.com/guitar/scallop…

My free in-person and online guitar and world music workshops start 2/21/24: ancient-future.com/news2023.html#…

Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 4 PM, Ancient Future featuring me on scalloped fretboard guitar and Chinese pipa master Shenshen Zhang performs at Old St. Hilary's Landmark, 201 Esperanza St., Tiburon, CA. Tix: ticketleap.events/tickets/belved…

Free World Rhythms Workshop: 6/19/2024, 7 PM, Cloverdale Arts Alliance! ancient-future.com/pr2024.html#ju…

Free Beginning and Intermediate Guitar Workshops, 6/12/24, 7 PM, Cloverdale Arts Alliance. ancient-future.com/pr2024.html#ju…

I'm leading a FREE world rhythms workshop 6/19/24 at 7 PM at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance in Cloverdale, CA! ancient-future.com/pr2024.html#ju…

Even though I'm most known as an acoustic guitarist, Jimi Hendrix shaped my music early on. I'm looking forward to posting important dates in Ancient Future - Hendrix history!

Ancient Future - Hendrix History 8/12/68, Jimi joined Joan Baez at the “Operation Airlift Biafra Benefit” at the Scene Club in New York City. I taught two of Baez's relatives guitar, and on 8/12/05, Ancient Future performed at the Festival Internacional de la Guitarra in Spain.

Happy birthday in the beyond to Jimi Hendrix. Meet me in the Ancient Future. Don't be late...

On 3/16/77, I unexpectedly opened for the #Ramones with my high school girlfriend, singer and pianist Bambe Marlin who had gotten into punk rock. This event became a syzygy in the histories of #Nirvana, the #DeadKennedys and Ancient Future. Details at ancient-future.com/releases2025.h…

Save Stream: orcd.co/eastofthesuntr… On 4/4/10, a new unnamed piece by Matthew Montfort was performed live on Please Stand By on KPIG. An audience member called suggesting the name East of the Sun. On 4/4/25, it dropped with Ancient Future's #Nirvana cover, Spirit of Nirvana.

US attacks on Venezuela are decried as extrajudicial killings violating international law. Instead of authoritarianism, let's learn from our pasts. Here's my 2005 article praising Venezuela's law requiring a percentage of local music on the radio. ancient-future.com/radioquotas.ht…

My first ever solo recording on flamenco guitar drops this Friday, 12/12/25! But you can pre-save it now at orcd.co/tarantasalap! And stay tuned because it's the improvised introduction to my composed piece Tres Tarantas Tres, coming 2/13/26: orcd.co/tarantas

"Tarantas Alap," my first solo flamenco guitar release, just dropped today. Listen to the whole piece at: orcd.co/tarantasalap #tarantas #flamenco #guitar #Indian #Hindustani #raga #raag #alap #alaap #impressionism #worldfusion #ancientfuture