David Doig

I have just released three new recordings.  The first is titled "Beacon-First Light" which is a collaboration with composer-vocalist Paul Seal.  The music is inspired by many diverse sources including Pop, Jazz, Rock, Country, Reggae and Classical music. The second titled "Guitar Dreams" is a sequel to the 2006 release "Solo Music For Acoustic Guitar"   featuring unaccompanied nylon string acoustic guitar in short form compositions with improvisation.  The third recording "Popular Guitar Classics" was originally released in 1992 in cassette format.  The recording includes many of the most popular selections from the Classical Guitar repertoire. All of these selections may be sampled and purchased from the "Music Store" located on the bottom of the homepage on this site.  Thank you for your support!

If you or your band want to perform in the Sayville Summer Festival on August 6th or 7th, contact The Bayport School of Music

David Doig, the owner of The Bayport School of Music, will be performing live in front of his business, located at 568 Middle Road in Bayport NY from 10:30-11:00am on Monday 5/30/11. The event is dedicated to the spirit of Memorial Day. Each year many residents of the town congregate at the memorial park for a Memorial Day Ceremony. I would like to thank local residents for 15 years of support at this location! Let's make this an annual event. In the future it would be great to include students from the school in this event. Register now for summer music lessons and the opportunity to perform live at The Sayville Summer Fest!

Dr David Doig will be performing live at the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Saturday November 6, 1:00-400 pm at "The Fish Store", 836 Montauk Hwy. Bayport NY

Dr David Doig will be performing 2 sets of solo Classical guitar music. The compositions will include selections by J.S. Bach, F. Moreno Torroba, Fernando Sor and some of David's solo acoustic guitar compositions from the 2006 release "Solo Music For Acoustic Guitar". The event will also feature some of David's students from The Bayport School of Music, Five Towns College and SUNY Stony Brook The event will take place in front of The Chase Bank at 131 Main Street in Sayville NY between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm on Saturday October 23. Hope you can make it! Best, David Doig

David Doig and Paul Seal will be performing live on Saturday August 7th between 1:00-2:30 pm in front of the Chase Bank on Main street in Sayville. The event will also feature performances from Students of The Bayport School of Music.

Hey Friends,

I have recently posted new preview clips on You Tube for my soon to be released CD. Please Check it out! You will need to search for DavidDoigGuitar

Thanks,

Dave Doig

David Doig is in the process of recording a new solo acoustic guitar project. The project will likely be released in August 2010. The recording will feature 11 new “tunes” for solo acoustic guitar plus improvisation. This is a “follow up” to the successful “Solo Music for Acoustic Guitar” released in 2006. Stay tuned for more details! David has also been working with Paul Seal, the lead singer form “Cathedral”, on a new CD, also to be released in August 2010. Visit www.cathedralprogrock.com for more details.

Students from the Bayport School of Music will perform at The Meadow Croft Estate located on Middle road in Sayville, NY on Sunday December 6th between 3:00-4:00 pm. The event showcases many of the talented music students from the local community. Come on down show your support!

4/19/09 Live Performance - Dr. David Doig will be performing Kithara Interludium , several selections from Solo Music for Acoustic Guitar, selections from his upcoming solo guitar release and Dr. Jill Miller's Divertimento for guitar and Flute in a faculty recital at the Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts, 305 North Service Road, Dix Hills NY 11746 on Sunday April 19th at 2:00 pm.

David will be performing with the "house band" for this years telecare telethon. The live event will take place from 2:00 pm - 10 pm January 17th and 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm January 18th. Telecare is on channel 29 and is now on Verizon Fios at channel 271 (the station went national last year and is no longer just a Long Island station), they are also on WLNY TV10/55 this weekend

Students from the Bayport School of Music will perform at The Meadow Croft Estate located on Middle road in Sayville, NY on Sunday December 7th between 3:00-4:00 pm. The event showcases many of the talented music students from the local community. Come on down show your support!

Students from the Bayport School of Music will perform at the Bayport Expo 08. The event will take place on Wednesday October 15th between 6:00-8:00 pm at The Bayport Flower House located at 940 Montauk Hwy. in Bayport, NY. The event showcases many of the areas local businesses. Come on down and support your local community!

For Complete information about The Bayport School of Music, please visit www.BSM.practicespot.com The school is currently auditioning students interested in becomming the next "guitar hero". Rock School performances are now being coordinated for the 2008-2009 season. Register now to reserve your performance date.

Dr. David Doig attended a focus group hosted by D'Addario at their location in Farmingdale NY. Many of the top music educators from the NY metro area attended the conference. The main topic of conversation revolved around the idea that D'Addario would like to become a "hub" for music lessons, providing teaching contacts for people interested in taking music lessons.

CATHEDRAL SIGNS WITH MUSEA Musea, the French progressive label (Anglagaard, Glass, Ange) has taken Cathedral aboard. After an informal meeting in Metz in October and some negotiations Musea will be distributing Cathedral's latest album, "The Bridge". The band is focusing all their energies on new material and upcoming performances. It's basically a partnering of two entities that love the past, present and future of progressive music and plan to do something about it. Something good is going to happen!

Another excellent review of "The Bridge" recording released by Cathedral in September 2007. This review is from www.progplanet.com Cathedral…US progband with 2 albums to their name, would you beleive, with 29 years apart?! NO ?! I didnt think so, neither did I !! But the fact is, they released a new (and second) album in 2007 and what a brilliant album it is!! Now I havent had the pleasure of hearing their first and rare album, which is (supposedly) a classic early prog album! However I can comment, on this new outing!! And in my honest opinion, it is quite a superb album, with plenty of mellotron, tight themes with drums and solid bass lines and sometimes powerful highflying guitar soli!! But also the vocals are splendid, as are the lyrics! Especially the “Monsterhead” suite are excellent both lyric and music wise!! It has a creeping growing theme that you ( the listener) cant seem to get rid off and believe you me, you dont want to, once you get caught in that fine maelstrom of that superb track! But its not all highflying powering prog, there are intervals of acoustic beauty such as track # 4: “Kithara Interludium” ...oooh, beware Steve Howe!! “Angular World” has just enough counterpoint and complex arrangements to intrigue you, a brilliant track, with some excellent guitars!! “The Lake” opening like a jungle soundtrack (sound effects) building up a fine soothing theme, with the superb vocals of Paul Seal on top!! “The Secret” an epic track (11:59 min.) again with the warm and excellent voice of Paul Seal, weaving in and out of the superb music created by fabulous guitarplayers: David Doig & Brian Moore, keyboardplayer: Thomas Doncourt and aforementioned: Bass and drum masters: Callan & Caronia, in all adding up to the excellent feature this album turned out to be !! An amazing second album! It is quite an amazement to me, how on earth these guys can reunite, after that many years and still create this monster of an album!!? I havent heard their first album, I would have loved to hear it just for the sake of comparability, but who cares, as this by all counts are masterclass progmusic..from a masterclass band!! So, I recommend this fine fare to anyone into great progressive music !!

Check out the photos from Telecare 2008. They include photos of "The Group" with Kellen Clemens, Quarterback of the NY Jets, Bud Harrelson of NY Mets fame and "Fingers" from WBAB.

David will be performing with the "house band" for this years telecare telethon. The live event will take place from 2:00 pm - 10 pm January 19th and 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm January 20th. Telecare is on channel 29 and is now on Verizon Fios at channel 271 (the station went national last night - no longer just a Long Island station), they are also on WLNY TV10/55 this weekend.

I would like to thank Jim Cisek, Director of Human Resources, Flexible Business Systems - 85 Corporate Drive, Hauppauge, NY 11788 (And his boss Joe S.) for having me perform for the Hauppauge Industrial Associations Christmas event held at Clearvision Optical Co. , 425 Rabro Dr. Suite #2 Hauppauge, NY 11788. I had a great time performing for a group of very dedicated business professionals! Best, Dave Doig

I will be performing as a member of the " house band" taping Msgr. Jim Vlaun's Christmas show on Monday Dec. 17th from 6pm-9pm in a "live studio setting" at Hofstra University. The show will be aired on Telecare TV. Stay tuned for more details!

The Kansas City Radio Station show KCUR - 89.3 FM will be using my solo guitar compositions as background music for their morning show. The show has an audience of 40,000!

I am now hosting a new internet radio station called "Acoustic Eclectic Dream". The station is located at http://www.live365.com/stations/dave6325 The station will feature a lot of acoustic guitar music and other types of "progressive" music. The show is on all the time! Tune in and give it a listen. Let me know what you think!

The Bridge Laser's Edge Catalog Talk about taking a long time to record a second a... Talk about taking a long time to record a second album! After a 31 year break Cathedral return for the follow up to Stained Glass Stories. All of the original members are back with the exception of Rudy Perrone who is replaced by virtuoso guitarist David Doig. When you hear about these reformations your expections are automatically set pretty low since very few of them are successful. Cathedral actually pull it off! The band took the core Cathedral sound (Mellotron is everywhere on this disc) and modernized it a bit - primarily due to current technology. It doesn't sound like it was recorded in 1976 - it has a rather crystalline clear sound. The album kicks off with the 13 minute three part "The Monsterhead Suite" which basically sounds like...Cathedral. In other words a taste of King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Genesis and Yes. The rest of the album follows suit. As you relisten to it you really pick up on a lot of the nuances that made Stain Glass Stories such a classic - but again I have to emphasize that this isn't a retro sound. For me the only downer is drummer Mercury Caronia's decision to use an electronic kit - a standard one would have been much more effective. Here's hoping we don't have to wait another 31 years for album number three - I might not be around!

Many of you have sent me emails like "I tried to download your songs from itunes but I couldn't find them". The wait is over! Click on the buy link of this site to go to either CD Baby to buy the CD or itunes to download it. THANKS!

I will be performing original compositions for acoustic guitar on Friday October 5th from 7:00-9:00pm at Colorful Visions Art Glass Studio Inc., 813 B Montauk Hwy., Bayport NY. Visit their website: http://www.cvglassart.com/ for more details!

Fingers from WBAB homegrown will be playing "Satellite" from the new Cathedral CD "The Bridge" tonight Monday Sept 17th at 11:50 pm. If you miss it you can check it out tomorrow on the web at www.bab.com

The new CD, "The Bridge", will be available on Sept.20th. You can purchase the CD through www.cdbaby.com or download single tunes from the CD through www.itunes.com Thanks for your support. I have posted another sound clip from the CD, Kithara Interludium, the solo guitar piece from the CD, in the music section of this site. Enjoy!

I would like to thank all the friends, family and fans who came to Saturday's concert at the Boulton Center for the performing arts in Bay Shore. The show was a huge success (It was sold out!). The audience participation was outstanding! Please join the mailing list so we may keep you informed about future events. We are planning concerts at IMAX and The Patchogue Theater in the not too distant future. The full length CD "The Bridge" will be available through www.cdbaby.com or in download format from www.itunes.com on September 5th 2007. Please buy it and SPREAD THE WORD! A Special Thanks to Rafer Guzman of Newsday for his Cathedral Redux paragraph which was published in the Aug 23rd edition of Newsday and the wonderful staff at the Boulton Center, Bravo!

Yup! It's finally going to happen. After a year of rehearsal and recording, Cathedral has booked its first gig at The Boulton Center for the Performing Arts (located at 37 West Main Street in Bayshore NY, Telephone 631-969-1101). Tickets may be purchased online through their website: www.boultoncenter.com/home.asp Click on events, click on Cathedral (Aug. 25th on the calendar), click on tickets, click on the calendar (Aug 25th 8:00 pm), click on the seating chart to select seats. Pay! That’s it! (You can print the ticket on your printer). Thanks for Your Support!

IT'S HERE the first sound clip from the progressive rock group Cathedral. Click on 2nd Movement of Monsterhead Suite in the Music section of this site!

Visit the official cathedral website www.cathedralprogrock.com Join the email list. Sound samples should be available in the next few weeks!

Last August I joined a progressive rock band called Cathedral. The band released a recording in 1978 called Stained Glass Stories which received excellent reviews (you can check out some of these reviews online). The band consists of Mercury Caronia IV: Drums, Percussion - Paul Seal: Lead Vocals - Fred Callan: Bass and Taurus Bass Pedals - Tom Doncourt: Keyboards, flute, percussion - David Doig: Electric and Acoustic Guitars and Other Instruments The group is currently recording at Ian London Studio. The new recording should be available by mid spring 2007. Cathedral has a page on myspace.com: http://myspace.com/cathedralprogrock A full website is under development and should be visible within 2 months. Email any questions you may have about Cathedral!

Dr. David Doig was the "house guitarist" who performed live on the 2007 version of the telecare telethon which originally aired on January 13th and 14th 2007 on the telecare channel. We had a great time! hope you enjoyed it!

On January 30, 2006 I released a new CD Titled Solo Music for Acoustic Guitar. It features 11 original compositions for nylon string guitar. The music spans a wide variety of styles. The concept for this CD was to compose a tune followed by improvisation on the tune. The CD is available through hostbaby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/daviddoig Click on the Music section of this site to sample tunes from the CD. Hope you like it!

ALBUM NOTES This CD was a pleasure to create. It is truly wonderful to be an independent artist who composes, performs and produces original works. Many of the tunes on this recording had been “kicking around in my head” for many years. I first performed “Children’s Song”, “Cinderella”, “Island Blues” and “Passion Dance” at a benefit concert for Native Americans at Riverside Church in NY City about six years ago. “Circus” was composed in about 10 minutes. The composition borrows some of the compositional techniques of one of my favorite composers, J.S. Bach. The two part writing lends itself particularly well to finger style guitar. “The Jig is up” has a definite Celtic flavor. It was composed about a year ago when I was planning a concert tour of the Emerald Isle, England and Scotland. “Jimi” is a tribute to my all time favorite solid body electric guitarist Jimi Hendrix. “Melancholy” is all about the struggle most musicians face between beauty and poverty! “Spanish Phrases” is an improvisation which encompasses many of the rhythmic, harmonic and form related compositional devices traditional “Spanish” composers employ in their compositions. “Ballad” defines what it means to mature as a musician, i.e., you are no longer afraid to leave space between your musical ideas. “Waterfall” is the oldest composition on this CD. The work originally was intended for an ensemble. The concept originated from a trip to Smokey Mountain National Park in 1995.

If you are a guitarist interested in developing fingerstyle ability, I can send you guitar tablature and/or traditional notation of the tunes presented on this CD. I am currently working on a guitar method which will offer instruction on how to become proficent in a solo guitar style which incorporates elements of improvisation as well as traditional concepts.