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Upon discovering the nuances that a steel string acoustic guitar can create, he quickly found the home for his compositions. These joyful and adventurous music experiments have led him to performing both nationally and internationally, from California to North Carolina, even to Australia. The year 2018 saw the debut release of Forest’s debut instrumental album, “Let The Clouds Pass.” The years 2018-2019 had Forest Zigzagging across the USA in a fully independent national tour, over 40 concerts in 26 states, 70,000 miles in a station wagon loaded with his guitars and a dream. 2023 was the year of doing the “Nashville thing”. While he never acquired cowboy boots, he further cut his teeth on all genres from Rock, Country and Pop, performing hundreds of popular songs and running across bar tops. Ultimately, it was not the true path of this original artist and he relocated back home to the west coast USA where he could continue exploring his own musical style. In 2025, Forest was invited to open a sold out 26 date run of coast to coast tour of Canada with guitar legend Alex Misko. 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Although initially enamored by classic rock and heavy metal in his teenage years, his curiosity led to a focus on solo acoustic guitar in 2015. Upon discovering the nuances that a steel string acoustic guitar can create, he quickly found the home for his compositions. These joyful and adventurous music experiments have led him to performing both nationally and internationally, from California to North Carolina, All across Canada and even to Australia. The year 2018 saw the debut release of Forest’s debut instrumental album, “Let The Clouds Pass.” The years 2018-2019 had Forest Zigzagging across the USA in a fully independent national tour, over 40 concerts in 26 states, 70,000 miles in a station wagon loaded with his guitars and a dream. 2023 was the year of doing the “Nashville thing”. While he never acquired cowboy boots, he further cut his teeth on all genres from Rock, Country and Pop, performing hundreds of popular songs and running across bar tops. Ultimately, it was not the true path of this original artist and he relocated back home to the west coast USA where he could continue exploring his own musical style. In 2025, Forest was invited to open a sold out 26 date run of coast to coast tour of Canada with guitar legend Alex Misko. Forest has been invited to perform with other fingerstyle acoustic musicians such as Adrian Bellue, Christie Lenee, Van Larkins, Mark Kroos, Kat Gruvs and Janet Noguera. 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