Jack Dwyer is a musician based in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. He has pursued a wide-ranging career as a songwriter, singer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist studio & side musician, teacher, audio engineer and producer.
Jack grew up playing and singing in an Alaskan family bluegrass band before moving to New York’s Hudson River Valley, where he studied with banjo pioneer Bill Keith, jazz guitarist Mike DeMicco (of The Brubeck Brothers) and attended Bard College on scholarship as a teenager. At age 20, Jack was hired as an adjunct professor of music at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, where he served as an adjunct professor for seven years. He has conducted numerous workshops around the country on instrumental technique, songwriting, and musicology and has authored a number of instructional books.
Jack began working as a professional musician in his early teens, and has performed with the likes of Peter Rowan, Bill Keith, Darol Anger, Scott Law, Tony Furtado, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, The Mammals, Don Stiernberg, and others at festivals and venues including Pickathon (OR), String Summit (OR), Wintergrass (WA), The Mandolin Symposium (CA), Shakori Hills Festival (NC), Harvest Festival (AR), New York Ukulele Festival (NY), Woodstock Film Festival (NY), Big Apple Bluegrass Festival (NY), Long Island Bluegrass Festival (NY), Clearwater Festival (NY), Juan de Fuca Fest (WA), ThingFest (WA), Boats and Bluegrass Festival (MN), Subdued Stringband Jamboree (WA), Bellingham Folk Festival (WA), North Cascade Bluegrass Festival (WA), Portland Old-Time Gathering (OR), Oregon Country Fair (OR), Olympia Old-Time Festival (WA), Anchorage Folk Festival (AK), Granite Creek Bluegrass Festival (AK), East Vancouver Old-Time Social (BC, CAN), Folklife Festival (WA), Dungeoness Crab Festival (WA), The Wooden Boat Festival (WA), Port Townsend Film Festival (WA), and more.
To date, Jack has released fourteen full length albums, two EPs, and appeared as a studio musician on many more.