For the past four years, Andrew Leonard and Doug Smith have toured together. Their shared concerts combine duets and solo sets of Andrew Leonard's classical repertoire and Doug Smith's original acoustic guitar compositions. Go to Andrew Leonard's Performance page to find out about this year's tour dates.

Meet Doug Smith

Doug Smith’s original instrumental compositions have been heard on radio and TV stations throughout the world, including CNN, ESPN, E!, The Discovery Channel, and Encore; his playing has been heard on the soundtracks of movies and television shows such as "Twister" and "Moll Flanders", the “Martha Stewart Show” and he has performed on the nationally syndicated radio programs "Echoes", "West Coast Live", and "River City Folk.”

Doug Smith received a 2005 Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental category this year for his arrangement and performance of the Henry Mancini song “It’s Easy to Say” on the recording “The Pink Guitar.” During the past year his instructional DVD and companion songbook Contemporary Instrumental Guitar released by Warner Brothers. Both contain many of his most popular original solo guitar pieces.

Doug’s music combines folk, classical, jazz and contemporary forms with virtuoso guitar technique to create a unique, flowing and highly melodic fingerpicking style. Of his playing and composing, Billboard Magazine wrote "Inviting melodic…Stunning fingerpicking", and Acoustic Guitar Magazine wrote "As beautiful as any instrumental pieces you will ever hear".

Doug records for Solid Air Records. He has numerous CDs to his credit including a Best Of recording, a Christmas CD and the recently released Alone Again, the follow up to his best selling Alone at Last. Besides his solo albums, Doug has contributed to several of American Gramophone’s popular "Dayparts" series: "Sunday Morning Coffee" I & II, "Romance" I & II, and "Dinner".

He lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon.