Guitarist • Composer • Producer
Solo & collaborative projects • Highlights & credits
Recordings, videos, & global collaborations Solo guitar
Collaboration
Record Production
Live solo - The Freight, Berkeley, CA
LIve - Fula Brothers, with Mamadou Sidibe. Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, CA
LIve - Sidiki Diabate & Walter Strauss.
Celtic Connections Festival. Glasgow, Scotland
Contact:
• Walter direct •
walter@walterstrauss.com 717.968.0243
• Booking • (Solo, Fula Brothers, Mamajowali)
booking@walterstrauss.com
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• Jack West & Walter Strauss •
Scott Price at Ota Records:
music@melodia.com 510.339.3389
• Solo tours in the US, UK, Ireland, Mali
• Fula Brothers, with early kamale ngoni innovator Mamadou Sidibe from Mali
• Sidiki Diabate and Walter Strauss - duo with Malian star, proposed by Toumani Diabate
• Mamadou Diabate and Walter Strauss - duo tours with Grammy winning kora player
• Mamajowali, with Mamadou Sidibe & multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven (Garcia-Grisman…)
• Duo with guitarist Jack West - CD release Jan ‘26
• Duo with Scottish fiddler Jonny Hardie of Old Blind Dogs, performances @ Scotland
• Collaboration in Havana with violinist-songwriter Tanmy Lopez Moreno for “The Cuban Dream” on PBS
• Venues & festivals include Celtic Connections, Kennedy Center, The Freight, Sheldon Theater, major folk festivals in US, Canada, UK…
• Film: Composed for scenes in the Ken Burns film “Defying the Nazis”; composer & music director for “The Cuban Dream” PBS series.
• Record productions for MaMuse, Stevie Coyle, Yoche Dehe Wintun Nation
Credits include:
“Inspirational!” - late great kora master Toumani Diabate
“Glorious… master guitar playing” Whispering Bob Harris, legendary BBC broadcaster
“Beautiful, fluid and sophisticated”– Martin Simpson, British guitar luminary
“He has managed to elevate the instrument and the genre on the whole.” - Acoustic Guitar Magazine
“Virtuoso” Akustik Gitarre Magazine (Germany)