Matt Cartsonis spent his formative years on the Arizona honky tonk highway and has a particular affection for American traditional music, and the instruments with which that sort of music is traditionally made. He managed to acquire a Vassar degree in biopsychology despite spending much of his college time in folk music bootcamp with Pete Seeger and friends in New York’s Hudson Valley. Since then, Matt has toured most famously with the likes of Warren Zevon, Steve Martin and Glen Campbell, and has been on and off the road with John McEuen for more than twenty years. He most enjoys bragging about recording and working with Wendy Waldman, Jennifer Warnes, Ringo Starr, Joanna Newsom, Beck and Nirvana. He writes music for the screen as well, and is a Sundance Composers Lab Fellow.