Bio
Adam Carney lives and works in Austin, Texas as a full time musician, composer and guitar instructor. He performs regularly in Austin and throughout Central Texas on his custom Harp Guitar and 7-string guitars. He performs as a soloist and in collaboration with a number of wonderful musicians, including groups such as Caros Amigos, Hora Once and The Violet Crown Affair
Adam Carney has recorded as a soloist and collaborated with many other artists on projects and albums, including the 2007 Swing Jazz album Gypsy Moon, Adam's first solo harp guitar album Elizabeth in 2009, the award winning Nuevo Tango album Libertango with the Austin Piazzolla Quintet in 2011, and the 2016 self-titled Nuevo Tango/Latin Folk music album Hora Once. He is currently working on his 5th studio album with Austin-based Choro group, Caros Amigos. Since moving to Austin, he has had his music featured on movies, TV shows and video games, including television documentaries, indie movies, international television commercials, and the television series Archer on the FX network.
Adam is the also a classical guitar instructor and the director and founder of the Capital City Guitar Camp in Austin, TX. The annual week-long guitar camp for kids of all ages started in 2014 and hosts some of the best guitar instructors in Central Texas. Every year it features a concert by the students and faculty, and other guest musicians from the Austin music scene. For more info on the camp, please visit CapitalCityGuitarCamp.com
About the Harp Guitar
The idea of the harp guitar has to have been around for as long as luthiers have been building guitar-like instruments, but the first true harp guitars were made in the beginning of the 20th century in America and Europe. They are classified as having both a standard six-string neck as well as an extra set of sub-bass strings strung above the standard neck. The bass strings are struck with an extended thumb and act as a “bass-harp“, creating deep bass tones and drones while melodies and rhythms are played on the standard guitar neck. The number of strings vary - some guitars have three or four bass strings; others have as many as twenty or more bass and treble strings. Adam often performs on one of his two 14-string custom Harp Guitars, each designed by Adam and unique to the rest of the world: One built by Master Luthier Sean Wooley in France, and the other by Master Luthier Woodley White in Hawaii.