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Recent Examples of guitarist
Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, a founding guitarist in British experimental rock group Black Midi, has died, his family announced Monday.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
News of vocalist-guitarist’s death was shared in a statement posted to his Facebook page by the Weir family and later on the musician’s website.
—Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, the co-founder of the British rock band Black Midi and its guitarist from 2016 to 2021, has died at the age of 26.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
While seemingly an unlikely pair of collaborators — Mayer, while a world-class guitarist, was better known as a pop artist and was 30 years younger than Weir — the two performed together for a decade.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 Jan. 2026
The biggest fan of Grateful Dead guitarist and co-founder Bobby Weir, who died Saturday at the age of 78, was perhaps his bandmate Jerry Garcia.
—Jesse Jarnow, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2026
In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
The Grammy-winning guitarist welcomed another daughter, Chloe Kaelia, with his wife in 2001.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Don Felder, former Eagles guitarist, remembered first seeing Weir perform with the Grateful Dead at Woodstock.
—Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 11 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guitarist
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Dead drummer Mickey Hart said at one point legendary concert promoter Bill Graham vented to him about the lack of catchy songs.—
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The band's other drummer, Mickey Hart, practically an original member since joining in 1967, is also alive at 82.—
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Wednesday’s concert at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on the UCSD campus will find Narucki performing with two frequent collaborators, coloratura soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest and pianist Donald Berman.—
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Tamami Honma is the guest pianist.—
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An hour later, for its first concert since the fires, parishioners sat in awe as Grammy Award winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers weaved her bow across her violin, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach echoing through the church.—
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It will be played by flutist Mark Teplitsky, violinist Eric Gratz, cellist Julian Schwartz and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.—
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The Messthetics—the band formed around Fugazi’s rhythm section of Joe Lally and Brendan Canty—released their debut album in 2018 and a follow-up a year later, before uniting with jazz saxophonist Lewis.—
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The commemorative program will have guest performers, including renowned jazz saxophonist Juli Wood, vocalist Robin Pluer, vocalist Dorothy Jackson, and singer/pianist David Nunley.—
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The song, co-written with keyboardist Camila Grey, leads an album of the same name that marks Morrissey’s return to the Warner label Sire and his reunion with producer Joe Chiccarelli.—
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David Kaff, who portrayed the keyboardist Viv Savage in This Is Spinal Tap, died at age 79, his band Mutual of Alameda's Wild Kingdom announced via a July 13 Facebook post.—
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Renowned trumpeter, composer and percussionist Etienne Charles is also on the closing night bill.—
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At around the same time, Leon Russell joined them on piano, bringing along his saxophone player and the great Nigerian percussionist Ambrose Campbell.—
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Waiting in the greenroom was Robert Alan York, a veteran organist who studied classical repertory and improvisation in Paris and also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the American songbook.—
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Anna von Hausswolff, Iconoclasts Some of the hardest rock and roll of the year came from … a pipe organist?—
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On March 8, Bello’s teenage son Nigel, a trombonist, performs with his Nigel Bello Band.—
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But the New Orleans trombonist didn’t love the results.—
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“Guitarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guitarist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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