Chad MacCluskey is quite the renaissance figure who gravitated towards music at an early age. He not only has performed countless times, strumming a broken tennis racquet on his mother’s living room floor, to an audience of G.I. Joe dolls, but also to human audiences in Africa, Australia, Indonesia, as well as throughout Colorado. Mr. MacCluskey has a Bachelors in Neuroscience, a teaching degree, a Masters in Elementary Education/ Information Technologies, and many endorsements in Special Education. He is a Certified Academic Language Therapist. Mr. MacCluskey has been in public education for over twenty four years. He has also started his eighteenth year coaching middle school cross country running with his team The Durango Trail Runners. For the last eight years he has coached with Durango Nordic in the winter. Throughout his music career Mr. MacCluskey has performed on bass as well as guitar in a variety of genres from Celtic, funk, fusion, jazz, prog rock, African pop to Djenty Death Metal. Local bands include Mac Jazz Trio, Clear Spring Jazz Trio, BluPhunk Collective, Sky Pilot, Prattle, Better Knot, Alison Dance Trio and Throwback Swing. Lastly, he has a passion for performing solo guitar with seven or eight strings in unconventional tunings.

Please contact codelberg@stillwatermusic.org for Chad’s availability.