Matt Smith is one very busy NYC based musician. Any given day he can be found wandering the globe spreading the love, performing, producing, writing, teaching, recording or at giving up the secrets of playing guitar at one of his "Chop Shop" concert/clinics for Ovation and Hamer guitars. Matt is a self-taught singer-songwriter and guitarist who plays a bunch of crazy stringed instruments in just about any style and a simple, friendly way of sharing his knowledge with others.

Recently, Matt has performed at the NYC Blue Note as well as Carnegie Hall, Central Park Summerstage and Eisenhower Park with the NY Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Skitch Henderson..  Matt has performed at numerous international guitar festivals including the Bath International Guitar Festival and the Montreal Guitar Festival, and does annual tours in the UK, Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland.

Matt has performed with opened for or recorded with the following artists:
B.B. King, Sheryl Crow, Trey Anastasio, Al DiMeola, Greg Allman, Los Lobos, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, Adrian Legg, Ed Gerhard, Portishead and many others...

Instruments played
Acoustic, Electric and Resonator Guitars, Mandolin, Mandocello, Dobro,
Lapsteel, Banjo, Ukulele, banjo uke, Saz, Cumbus, Charango,

Recordings
Matt Smith Band  - cassette only 1988 (out of print)
Tanqueray Rocks Live at the Ritz -CD Pulse 1990 (out of print)
Whisper to a scream -CD New Millennium 1991 (available soon)
Delta Radio- CD New Millennium 1993 (available soon)
Black and White-CD New Millennium 1998 (available on site)
Big Fun-CD New Millennium 2001 (available on site)
Free Beer and Chicken CD 2002 Dixie Frog (available on site)
What I Feel for You CD 2005
Chop Shop CD 2006
The Monstas- Meet the Monstas CD 2007

Books (all available on site)
Technique - speed - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub 1991
Technique- bending - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub 1992
Intermediate Blues Guitar - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub1993
Essential Skills - alternate tunings - Cherry Lane publishing 1995
Beginning Blues Guitar  (video VHS, DVD) - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub
Guitar Technique Encyclopedia - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub
Basic Blues Guitar method 3 (with David Hamburger) - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub
Basic Blues Guitar method 4 - Workshop Arts/Alfred pub