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Welcome to the official website of Craig Snyder.

Craig is a Rochester, New York based guitarist with a passion for jazz, blues, and jazz-fusion genres of music. Craig and his bands have opened for Frank Gambale, Chris Poland, Black Oak Arkansas, The Outlaws, Johnny Winter, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Mike Stern, Leni Stern, John Abercrombie, and Mick Goodrick; to name a few. He has been involved in various types of performances that range from local night clubs to tours that covered states from New York to Florida. Jazz great Leni Stern called Craig "Chops of Doom" after his fusion group opened her show in Rochester.

At a show in Rochester in 2006 fusion guitarist Chris Poland invited Craig to join his group onstage in a progressive version of Hendrix's Red House. Joel Taylor (Allan Holdsworth) was the drummer at this impromptu performance. Craig was hired several times to perform with the Finger Lakes Chorale at the 5,000 seat CMAC amphitheater on the grounds of Finger Lakes Community College where Craig is a part time instructor of jazz guitar, jazz bass, and a guitar-dominated 10 piece ensemble.

Craig has also been active in writing and recording original music from radio jingles to the new music on this site (music) at small regional studios as well as large internationally recognized studios such as Dajhelon and Linden Oaks.

When not in the studio Craig is a popular Rochester area Guitar and bass instructor at Hochstein School of Music and Finger Lakes Community College as well as a highly regarded guitar technician/set up person.