Crafting MUsic
Harry Bolles is a talented performer as well as a knowledgeable luthier and music educator.
He currently plays and teaches in New York City.
He repairs and restores instruments at Retrofret Vintage Guitars in Brooklyn, NY
Making Believe
“...at the heart of things is Bolles’s charismatic character and voice. Bolles finds a way to give these classics a fresh take, and for fans of standards or ukes, this is a perfect pickup.”
“(Harry) makes you feel happy and sad in all the best ways. He makes you long for all the things that are so easy to imagine as perfect. ”
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"Seems like cheating to make an album of the best songs with the best musicians. This record represents the jazzier selections from my live set, which always includes at least one Hoagy Carmichael song (Skylark) and one Disney song (In A World of My Own). I like to have a wide variety of genres in my performances and I love to feature songs written by my songwriter friends. On this record I am proud to include a song by Jesse Rimler (I Am Wiser Now), a very talented musician and songwriter in Oakland, CA. I am attracted to a song's melody first and foremost, and his song fit in with these other chestnuts very comfortably.
About the musicians: They are the cream of the crop. I am honored and humbled to be accompanied by such talent as these three men."