Guitarist Ryan Blotnick is one of the busiest musicians in Downeast Maine. After spending a decade in New York City and studying abroad in Copenhagen, Ryan has moved back to his native Maine where he works as a full-time musician and film composer. He plays all types of events, leads his own jazz trio, and has a reception band called The Brooklyn Tighten Up. He also plays in a number of bands on guitar and bass, including Violets For Your Furs, Country Folk (a.k.a. the Soul Benders), and sometimes with Ian and the Family Jones or Shirt Tail Kin. He has played professionally for over 20 years at numerous weddings, Ariana Rockefeller's rehearsal dinner, cocktail parties attended by Martha Stewart, and jazz festivals in Spain, Copenhagen, Sweden and Germany. As a film composer, his score for Knock Down the House helped it win the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. His style incorporates his roots in jazz, rock, and world music.