Catfish John Tisdell

Since his first public performances in the early 70's in Denver, Catfish John has toured the country both as a solo artist and in bands, performing in clubs, coffeehouses, music festivals and concerts. His favorite style of music is a combination of Blues/Rock, but he has performed in bands ranging from traditional blues and folk to more contemporary rock.

Catfish hosted weekly jam sessions on KUFM public radio at the University of Montana for over 10 years. His show was called "Catfish John's Radio Jamboree". (He has a B.A. in Radio and TV Production) He has worked as a television cameraman, booked college concerts, written a guitar instructional book, and has taught many music workshops and classes. He is a recording artist, songwriter, author, and studio musician with a wide variety of albums to his credit.

Since moving to Maui in 1991, John has performed in several bands. He started the Front Street Blues Band, which featured many of his original compositions as well as classic and contemporary blues and rock tunes. He played fiddle and banjo in the group "String Fever" (He also engineered their album, "Contagious".) and has been in a number of duos playing in clubs and on tour boats. He is the owner of Koa Music Studio where he teaches private music lessons and engineers recording sessions.

He is an avid windsurfer and loves being in the water. Incidentally, Catfish got his nick-name from swimming in an algae covered pond in North Carolina.