"You missed when time and life shook hands and said 'good luck!', for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, but i wouldn't hold my breath."

"All hail the dominant primordial beast." ~Alexander Supertramp (Christopher McCandless)

Not content to merely push the boundaries of acoustic fingerstyle technique, Michael weaves guitar, voice, audience, and venue into a greater instrument ecstatically playing itself. These guitar tapping etudes, cyberacoustic looping groovescapes, and heart-spearing love songs pull listeners through a remix of musical idioms past, present, and future - intimate and ecstatic, focused and raw.

"When I pick up my guitar and play, I’m agreeing that this is an instrument, that this is a guitar, that I play the guitar, and that I play the guitar in some specific way. That this is what it’s ‘for.’ There are an infinite number of ways for the universe to express itself through the functional relationship between a human being and a guitar.”
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Between the personal warmth of songwriting tradition and the whirling electronics of festival culture, Michael has gigged with an eclectic array of artists, including Tim Reynolds (Dave Matthews Band), Zuvuya (with Michael Travis of SCI – who declared him "the perfect opening act"), Papadosio, Zach Deputy, That 1 Guy, The Nadis Warriors, Jamie Janover, Willy Porter, Andreas Kapsalis Trio, Lunar Fire, Random Rab, Sidecar Tommy of Beats Antique, Heyoka, Ana Sia, D.V.S*, Stuart Davis, Whitewater Ramble, Spoonfed Tribe, Cecil "P'Nut" Daniels, Delta Nove, Cohen, The Floozies, Interstellar Transmissions, and Fresh2Death...and garnered invitations to jam with the likes of Fareed Haque, Entheogenic, and Bird of Prey.

His music has moved festival audiences at Wakarusa, Rootwire, The Manifestation Celebration, Motion Notion, Art Outside, Geoparadise, McDowell Mountain, Dreamtime, and Burning Man; kindled house concerts across the US; and provided a live, improvised score for the MAPS Conference on Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century.

Michael is endorsed by LR Baggs Guitar Pickups.

"It takes creativity to make the next step in a newer, more shocking direction, but it takes a visionary to go beyond the breaking point and meet music on the other end of the spectrum. That’s what Michael Garfield does..."
- Evan Townsend, TheUntz.com

"A KILLER musician...[Michael's playing is] a progressive, smart, and experimental journey that will make you view the acoustic guitar in a whole new light. Accessible, yet entirely original."
- Josh Smith, Re:Evolution Media

"Intoxicating, rejuvenating, and unapologetically spiritual work...instantly memorable and utterly magnetic tunes whose authenticity and sweetness is boundary breaking."
- Michael Richardson, The Renaissance Project

"Astonishing...insane guitar talent."
- Smother Magazine

For the teen-aged Glenn E. Alexander, growing up in rural Texas, the guitar became an addiction quickly adopted. He took a largely self-taught approach to his craft, pursuing his idea of music with sharply focused curiosity and a whimsical persistence largely unencumbered by mainstream musical ideals. Influenced by a large swath of America's musical history, he explored a mesh of looped composition and improvisation rooted around his Martin acoustic. Homemade recordings of these explorations became the bedrock for Brave Julius, his first foray into collaborative and studio work, which fleshes out his compositions in clever and often startling ways (see The Canyon, 2010). His live show is often improvisatory-focused, effect & loop-enhanced shoegaze instrumental guitar music, with a strong compositional element that evokes many aspects of the jamband, americana, and indie-rock music scenes around the country. His shows are always an of-the-moment experience, rooted in years of performing and crafting music for the soundtrack of your life, wherever you may be.