About Cheryl Lunsford
The Guitar Dojo - Lead Instructor, Cheryl Lunsford
Cheryl Lunsford is the proud owner and operator of The Guitar Dojo studio. She is an award winning guitarist, songwriter, and music instructor based in Fincastle, Virginia. She has taught private lessons for over 20 years from her studio in the mountains of SouthWest Virginia and has earned her place among the most revered flatpicking guitarists in the region. Her musical prowess covers many genres including gypsy jazz, bluegrass, classical, church music, and rock & roll.
Cheryl has a deep rooted history in folk music traditions and song. She grew up playing rhythm guitar in her father's bluegrass band in the Roanoke Valley, not far from her family home-place of Floyd Virginia. Her musical journey continued as she graduated from Chilton Guitar Studio in 1978 and went on to earn a BA in Voice and Music Studies at Mars Hill College in North Carolina in 1982. Cheryl has also studied guitar under National Flatpick Guitar Champion Scott Fore and as an apprentice for the Virginia Foundation For the Humanities. (VFH). She is also recognized as a VFH Virginia Folk Artist, and played on the Virginia Stage at the National Folk Festival in Richmond (2005).
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Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, Acoustic Guitar, Bottleslide, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Voice, Ukulele, Git-Bo, Dulcimer, Gypsy Jazz, Folk, Rock, Alternative, Bluegrass, Funk, Country, Piano, Fingerstyle, Flatpicking, Soloing.