Chris Bergson

Chris Bergson is a New York guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader, best known for leading the Chris Bergson Band. The band's album Fall Changes was named MOJO magazine's top blues album of 2008, and he was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. He studied privately with jazz guitarist Jim Hall, earned a Bachelor of Music in jazz performance from the Manhattan School of Music in 1999, and has worked as a sideman with artists including Norah Jones, Levon Helm, Hubert Sumlin and Annie Ross. He is an Associate Professor in the guitar department at Berklee College of Music. On Mike's Master Classes, his Blues Guitar course is a hands-on look at the Delta blues masters, including Skip James, Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Mississippi John Hurt, covering solo and rhythm blues guitar, voicings, turnarounds and building a solo.