1. STEVE ONO
2955 E Gilbert Fresno, CA 93721
Contact Info:
559-307-3610 cell
email: onomuse@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/SteveOnoGuitarist
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOnomuse
https://soundcloud.com/steve-ono
Musical Expertise
Master guitarist able to play all guitar-like instruments, singer/songwriter/composer, arranger/producer
and teacher with extensive knowledge of, and experience in, jazz, folk, rock, funk, blues, country and
world music honed over a 40 year professional career.
Able to compose or improvise original music in any style for any situation and/or mood on demand;
copy almost any style of music by ear and transcribe it to create sheet music; read musical notation and
chord symbols; change the key of the music to whatever is needed; record any of the above with the
live instruments, samples and loops; recruit, contract and rehearse a group of musicians for a studio
recording.
Recent Live Performances
• Composer and performer for the Flower Tome Companion, a take off on the Prairie Home
Companion for the upcoming Rogue Festival in Fresno February and March 2015.
• Steve Ono and Patrick Contreras Christmas show on CMAC'n Television Show November 2014
• Steve Ono Trio at the 12th
Nudes In November show for the Sorensen Galley November 2014
• Fig Garden Village Fall Festival October 2014
• Fig Garden Village Wine Walk September 2014
• Played at F.U.S.E. Festival (Fresno Urban Sound Experience) September 2014 “Steve, Thanks
for being a part of this year's festival and for all the work you do for the music scene. It is not
unnoticed and appreciated” Josh Tehee, FUSE director 2014 and columnist/music critic for the
Fresno Bee
• Respite at the River solo opening for former US poet laureate Phil Levine June 2014 for the
River Parkway Trust
• Market On Kern solo and duo every first Wednesday morning from April to October.
Live Music Clients
Catalano Fenske, DPS Telecom, KJWL, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno Arts Council, the
Downtown Fresno Partnership, The Pink Show, Chris Sorensen Gallery, CSUF, BSK and
Associates, Grunfos Pumps, The Fresno Library Council, Pearson Realty, Central California
Rehabilitation Association and the Voice Shop. (References Available)

2. Recent Recording Projects
• October 2014 arranged and produced tracks for ten original songs written by Astrid Plane, lead
singer for Animotion. The quintet had four rehearsals with the artist and all ten tracks recorded
“live to multitrack” in one ten hour block in late November at Maximus Media, Fresno.
• Sciandra Family double CD project of old time fiddle music and popular songs of 1900 to 1935.
• Heart of the Valley Patrick Contreras and Steve Ono September 2013 to June 2014.
Discography
• Heart of the Valley Patrick Contreras and Steve Ono 2014
• Fingerpaint and Folksongs Steve Ono 2011
• Appassionata: Live at the Auberry Library Patrick Contreras and Steve Ono 2011
• Music in Teak Hans York & Steve Ono 2010
• For the Camps featuring Steve Ono Greg Lawson 2009
• Smokin' Steve Ono & Eddie Gordon 2005
• Voice of a Friend Steve Ono 1996
Available at CDBaby, Itunes, Amazon and Soundcloud. Several songs from the “Music In Teak” Album
with Hans York have been on rotation at radio station at the KJWL or Jewel FM in 2014 and 2015.
Publications
• “Beginnings 1 and 2” includes all of my beginning guitar lessons.
• “Cheap Tricks for the Lazy Guitarist” is a easy guide to using basic guitar chords inventively
and learn new chords too.
• “Folksinger 101” is for children and is even more basic than “Beginnings”.
• “Can Ambitious Guitarists Even Dream? 1, 2 and 3” Yes, they can! The guitar has a pattern of
five Chord Types. Vol 1 is chords, vol 2 is arpeggios and vol 3 is scales.
• “Interval Graphics” is a complete graphic layout of the guitar neck with music functions
outlined and interval formulas described.
• “Music Theory is NOT Nuclear Physics” is a free PDF available online.
Teaching
• Guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, ukulele, music theory, arranging and composition.
• Group classes and private lessons at the California Arts Academy.
• Private lessons at Gottschalk's Music Center, Clovis
• Home lessons
Community
• Fresno Folklore Society board member, Concert Master and sound man.
• Member of JazzFresno, Creative Fresno and the Valley Cultural Coalition.
• Benefit performances for several non-profit organizations including the River Parkway Trust,
Fresno Arts Council, the Interfaith Youth Alliance, the Marjaree Mason Center and the
Roosevelt School of the Performing Arts.
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