Sammy draws his roots from Southern Rock, Blues, Country and Christian music. He plays all the instruments and sings the lead and backing vocals on every song, along with writing all the music and lyrics. Sammy has written and copyrighted close to a 100 songs.Sammy performs everything himself. In his home studio Sammy lays down
Keyboards,bass,drums,flute, saxophone and backing vocal tracks which are
played back on the stage.While he sings lead and plays guitar,banjo,mandolin
and fiddle on the stage to his original songs and oldies. Ranging from country, bluegrass,Fifties,Sixties and seventies music by groups such as Poco,Bread,
America,Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Elvis and the Moody Blues. Sammy is
from Shreveport, La., where he picked up his bluegrass,country and cajun
influences. He has played the Winnipeg Folk Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada three times one of the largest folk festivals in North America. He has
played the Fall Festival in the Province of Saksatcheman, Canada along with
being featured on two half hour programs televised nationally by the Canadian
Broadcasting Company. He has played the Natchitoches Folk Festival in
Louisiana and the Arkansas Old Time Fiddling Championship in Mountainview,
Ar. where he was made an Honorary member of the Racken Sack Folklore
Society and had his picture taken with Grandpa Jones and Ramona of the Grand
Ole Opry. He has toured with The Cajun Grass Band, Lost Prairie,Me,Myself
and I,Holloway & Clay and Sammy Holloway. He played at Trade Days Jamboree
hosted by KWK 11, the show aired in 42 states and 4 forgein Countries.He lived
in Colorado for awhile playing in Paonia,Boulder,Lake City and doing the Six
Points Bennefit in Gunnison Colorado where he lived for awhile. He now lives in
Huntington Or.where he has played Pioneer Days for the locals.These are just
a few of Sammy's accompishments during his career as a musician.Check out all his sites:
indiecharts.com/sammyholloway
www.isound.com/sammy_holloway
shoutlife.com/sammyholloway
http://sammyholloway.fuzz.com/
http://want2bdiscovered.com/music/sobi/details/rock-music/sammy-holloway.html
myspace.com/sammyhallowayonemanband
profile.imeem.com/0UvBx4C