Tim Stafford

Guitar teacher, Bluegrass Week 2

Tim Stafford is an award-winning guitarist with the band Blue Highway, which he helped found in 1994. Their first CD, It's A Long, Long Road spent 6 months at the top of the Bluegrass Unlimited charts and went on to win IBMA's Album of the Year Award.

Their latest CD, "Marbletown", was a 2005 Grammy Nominee. Tim and Blue Highway have added more CDs and awards.

Highlights of singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Tim Stafford's career include:

• Grammy winner, 1993, "Every Time You Say Goodbye"

• Grammy nominee, 2003, "Wondrous Love"

• Grammy nominee, 2005, "Marbletown"

• Dove Award winner, 2004, "Wondrous Love"

• Member of Alison Krauss and Union Station, 1990-92

• SPBGMA Bluegrass Guitar Performer of the Year, 2002

• IBMA Awards:

  • Album of the Year, 1996

  • Entertainer of the Year, 1991

  • Emerging Artists of the Year, 1996

  • Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year, 1996

  • Instrumental Album of the Year, 2001

  • Recorded Event of the Year, 2005

  • Nominated for Guitar Player of the Year, 2005

  • Nominated for Instrumental Album of the Year, 2005

• Taught guitar and banjo at East Tennessee State University's famed Bluegrass and Country Music Program

• Featured as an instructor at Augusta Heritage, Camp Bluegrass in Levelland, TX, Steve Kaufman's Flatpicking Camp, Bluegrass at the Beach, Wintergrass, Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend, Sore Fingers UK,

• Released instructional videotape, "Acoustic Guitar Fundamentals"