Guitarist and composer Bobby Ekstrand began playing the guitar at age ten. His eclectic tastes and myriad influences have inspired him to create extremely stylistically diverse music. Over the past 25 years his original work has not only won songwriting contests, but also has been featured in a National Public Radio broadcast that was later issued as an accompanying compact disc with the book "Remembering Jim Crow" (The New Press), and he has produced almost twenty CD's.