Bill Dutcher

BILL DUTCHER is a Phoenix-based guitarist that specializes in solo-acoustic guitar performance. His talents include 6-string, 12-string, harp guitar and Weissenborn slide guitar.

Bill has called Arizona home for the past 20 years and in that time, he has established himself as a nationally-recognized solo-acoustic performer.

Bill has released CD’s of original instrumental finger style music and has been featured on various compilation harp guitar CD’s, along with being an in-demand studio musician.

He is the founding member of The Local Spirits, a four-piece, original, instrumental ensemble that is fronted with mandolin, acoustic guitar, fretless bass and percussion.

Bill has a Father & Son duo with his oldest son, Austin Dutcher, as well as fronting a classic-rock trio, Audio Farm. Bill is also a founding member of the Ohio University, Athens, Ohio band, The Crunch and shares a history of playing over 30 years with  the original band members.

He continues to compose and perform both solo and with his bands, and works as an in-demand side man and music educator.

Audiences constantly remark about how no two shows are the same. “I love to push the envelope every night, trying to draw in all that is around me and channel that energy through my heart and hands to the audiences’ ears,” Dutcher comments.  He has a sixth sense for the art of reading audiences and playing to the dynamic of a venue. Every show sends listeners away saying, “How can one guy and one guitar do this?”