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Don, "your talent amazes me!!!! I love how you have created a style so distinctively your own.
The beauty of your arrangement & the glorious skill of your fingers, create a moving and unforgettable listening experience! BRAVO MY FRIEND, BRAVO!" - Tim Hunt, musician and recording artist Don is "not only a great musician to gig and record with, but also a true friend"
- Mary Knickle (The Mary Knickle Band) 
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Biography
Don Moore is a BelleVegas jazz guitarist who plays original solo jazz arrangements of popular songs and jazz standards. He is also a lead guitarist and vocalist in a range of other different styles, bands and music projects.
Don has over forty years of experience in music, beginning his studies with guitar at the age of five. He started teaching guitar at the age of sixteen in his hometown of Belleville, Ontario (affectionately known as “BelleVegas”), and has played professionally for over thirty years. As a youth, he would pick up many instruments easily—he is a self-taught pianist; he studied the trumpet in high school, which he played in the Eastern Ontario Concert Orchestra as a youngster; he also studied Opera singing with Cleone Duncan and Henrietta Ash, which he put into use in his days as a professional musical theatre actor in Toronto, and as a lead and backup vocalist for a range of different bands. His lifelong passion, however, is the guitar.
As a guitarist, Don has played and toured with numerous rock, jazz, blues, and celtic groups, including the Mary Knickle Band. With Mary Knickle, Don toured eastern Canada, worked with some of Canada’s most sought-after musicians, such as Georges Herbert (guitarist for Anne Murray), Geoff Arsenault (percussionist for Rita MacNeil), and Jamie Gatti (bassist for the Barra MacNiels), and performed on some of the biggest festival stages and music venues in Canada, including the Mariposa Festival, Summerfolk Festival, the First Night Festival in Toronto, the Pearl Theatre in Nova Scotia, and on numerous television shows including The Dini Petty Show. He has done studio recording work, played guitar in pit bands for professional theatres across Canada, done music arranging, and recently, has developed his own style of BelleVegas solo jazz guitar.
Don’s own BelleVegas Jazz style was born when, after many years as a professional guitarist, Don decided to return to his music studies to deepen his understanding of Jazz theory. The logistics of life and work caused him to shift gears, however, and instead he spent the next few years pursuing his own unique style of solo jazz guitar. Don calls it “BelleVegas” jazz, because although it is complex in form (much like Tommy Emmanuel or Chet Atkins style solo guitar arrangements), the songs draw from a range of genres -- from jazz, pop, blues, country, all the way to celtic -- and will pull on your heartstrings and make you hum along in a way that reminds Don of his early musical roots as a teenager in his hometown of BelleVegas (Belleville, Ontario). Whether you're a jazz guitar aficionado, a lover of the BeeGees, or you can't help waving a lighter along to a Cindy Lauper ballad, you'll love BelleVegas jazz.
Don has over forty years of experience in music, beginning his studies with guitar at the age of five. He started teaching guitar at the age of sixteen in his hometown of Belleville, Ontario (affectionately known as “BelleVegas”), and has played professionally for over thirty years. As a youth, he would pick up many instruments easily—he is a self-taught pianist; he studied the trumpet in high school, which he played in the Eastern Ontario Concert Orchestra as a youngster; he also studied Opera singing with Cleone Duncan and Henrietta Ash, which he put into use in his days as a professional musical theatre actor in Toronto, and as a lead and backup vocalist for a range of different bands. His lifelong passion, however, is the guitar.
As a guitarist, Don has played and toured with numerous rock, jazz, blues, and celtic groups, including the Mary Knickle Band. With Mary Knickle, Don toured eastern Canada, worked with some of Canada’s most sought-after musicians, such as Georges Herbert (guitarist for Anne Murray), Geoff Arsenault (percussionist for Rita MacNeil), and Jamie Gatti (bassist for the Barra MacNiels), and performed on some of the biggest festival stages and music venues in Canada, including the Mariposa Festival, Summerfolk Festival, the First Night Festival in Toronto, the Pearl Theatre in Nova Scotia, and on numerous television shows including The Dini Petty Show. He has done studio recording work, played guitar in pit bands for professional theatres across Canada, done music arranging, and recently, has developed his own style of BelleVegas solo jazz guitar.
Don’s own BelleVegas Jazz style was born when, after many years as a professional guitarist, Don decided to return to his music studies to deepen his understanding of Jazz theory. The logistics of life and work caused him to shift gears, however, and instead he spent the next few years pursuing his own unique style of solo jazz guitar. Don calls it “BelleVegas” jazz, because although it is complex in form (much like Tommy Emmanuel or Chet Atkins style solo guitar arrangements), the songs draw from a range of genres -- from jazz, pop, blues, country, all the way to celtic -- and will pull on your heartstrings and make you hum along in a way that reminds Don of his early musical roots as a teenager in his hometown of BelleVegas (Belleville, Ontario). Whether you're a jazz guitar aficionado, a lover of the BeeGees, or you can't help waving a lighter along to a Cindy Lauper ballad, you'll love BelleVegas jazz.
Links:
https://www.donmooreguitar.com/
https://www.facebook.com/donmooremusic/
https://donmooremusic.bandcamp.com/music
