Armed with a guitar and a vast arsenal of original material, Gus Amador provides the audience with a unique soul searching live performance. His CD "2 Short of 12" is a collection of songs that embodies various genres of music that has influenced his writings over the years and which has been dubbed "Acoustic Folk Punk Rock".
Gus has been in the music industry for over 30 years dating back to his first band "Quiz Kidz" in the early 80's and to his last band "Ocean in a Cup" in the 90's. Since 2000, he has been performing as a solo acoustic act is such venues as The Black Cat Cafe in Irvington, Coffee Labs in Tarrytown, Mr. D's in Yonkers, Cubbyhole Café in Poughkeepsie, Southside Inn in Mahopac, Danny's Cafe in Ossining, McCarthy's Pub in Carmel, The Kent Library in Kent, Beauty From Ashes Benefit Concert in Brewster, The Bitter End in NYC, Parkside Lounge in NYC , Starving Artist Cafe in NYC, MMNY (Make Music NY) Festival in NYC, Art of The Park in New Rochelle, Bank Square Coffeehouse in Beacon, The Coffee Shoppe in Beacon, The Spotlite Cafe in Scarsdale, Mount Kisco Farmer's Market in Mount Kisco, Food & Music festival at Marsh Sanctuary in Mount Kisco, NADDS in Baltimore, Maryland, Bayshore Coffee in Naples, Florida. He has also taken the stage at Open Mic Night in Pleasantville's Circle of Friends, Peekskill's Studio 2 , Cold Spring's The Listening Room's Music Series, Pleasantville's Lucy's Lounge, Peekskill's 12 Grapes as well as appearing in both cable access shows The Working Musician and Music from Bob's Basement. ..Presently he is laying down tracks for his new CD tentatively titled "Sessions?".
John F Kramer copyright 2012
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