Tom Breiding - AmeriSon Highway Tours
From Music Row songwriter in Nashville to current Bill Toms and Hard Rain guitarist in Pittsburgh, Tom Breiding has enjoyed an enduring career in music. With nine albums to his credit, including The Unbroken Circle, the new AmeriSon Records release, Tom has distinguished himself as one of the Pittsburgh region’s most prolific artists.
In the past fifteen years, Breiding has developed from a singer/songwriter to an outstanding artist, performer, record producer, and historical archivist through song. His body of work is strong testimony to the integrity and perseverance of one of Pittsburgh's longest-serving musicians.
Tom Breiding has been honing his singing, guitar playing and songwriting talents since the early 80's, from his hometown of Wheeling, W.Va. to his current residence in Pittsburgh, and points in between, and has carved a niche as a chronicler of small-town America.
Artist Experience:
-Breiding is currently a teaching artist at Calliope, Pittsburgh's Folk Society, conducting workshops with student writers and producing a folk record to commemorate Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary.
-1991 Breiding was signed as a staff writer at Tom Collins Music, serving on a staff of fewer than twenty writers that included Ronnie Milsap and Tom T. Hall. Tom Collins is a two-time CMA Producer of the Year recipient, and at that time was the largest independent publisher on Music Row in Nashville.
-Breiding has performed at countless venues including Jamboree in the Hills in front of 70,000 spectators, four appearances on Jamboree USA to a national radio audience, was featured "in the round" at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Café with hit writer Steve Dean (author of countless Country Top 40 hits), and he has performed in various venues from California to New York.
-Breiding’s co-writers have also included Steve Wolfe (Bonnie Tyler's "It’s a Heartache"), Tia Sillars (Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope you Dance"), and Kevin Gordon (Keith Richards and the Jordanaires' "Deuce and a Cadillac")
-In 2000 Breiding was voted Pittsburgh’s Best Acoustic Performer at citysearch.com