Ray Longchamp started banging on a Sears guitar at age 6. Guitar lessons and the Beatles coming to America two years later started him on his musical journey. He played in rock & bluegrass bands in high school, and started to get paid to do gigs after graduating. A formal education and college degree followed.
Scroll forward to 2013- Ray has been working at a breakneck pace in the music business for 35 years.
Playing- He does well over 200 dates a year- solo and duo acoustic gigs in clubs and restaurants in the New York metro area as well as many private gigs. His stylistic scope and repertoire are vast and varied. Solo gigs feature virtuoso fingerstyle playing, overlaid lead guitar parts, and warm vocals, with the ability to take requests all night. Duos feature great harmonies, and instrumental improvisation. All styles are covered- rock, jazz, rythym & blues, country- you name it.
He also does band gigs at larger venues, concert halls, and festivals with the Allman Brothers Tribute band, The Peach Project, that he founded, as well as with other bands and top musicians in the New Your metro area, doing a myriad of styles.
He also has been lead guitarist for the last six years for rock & roll legends and multi- gold record winners, Jay and The Americans, touring North America extensively.
Recording- He has recorded with countless artists, done commercial jingles, and backed up national acts in the studio, among them- Jay and the Americans and Tommy James of the Shondells.
Teaching- He has maintained a busy teaching schedule, averaging 30 to 40 students per week.
In addition to performing a wide variety of pop, classic rock, rhythm & blues, jazz & country, Longchamp & Manzo also do a bluegrass show. We do classic bluegrass standards with authentic improvisation & stellar "high lonesome" harmonies. We can perform the bluegrass show as a duo, or augment it with additional musicians playing tradtional bluegrass instruments (banjo, fiddle, mandolin, dobro)
Reminiscing- Little River Band
Brandy- Looking Glass
Sister Golden Hair
Ventura Highway
Horse with No Name
Tin Man- America
Take the Money & Run
Fly Like an Eagle
Serenade
The Joker- Steve Miller
Fire & Rain
Carolina in My Mind
How Sweet it is
Something in the Way
She Moves
Shower the People
Sweet Baby James
You Can Close Your Eyes
Steamroller Blues
You've Got a Friend
Handyman- James Taylor
Here Comes the Sun
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Octopus' Garden
One after 909
I Should have Known Better
I saw her Standing There
Tell Me What You See
Till There was You
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
In My Life
Here There & Everywhere
Michelle
Yesterday
Imagine
Let it Be
Get Back
Love Me Do
A Day in the Life
Hide Your Love Away
Twist & Shout
Blackbird
Rock Racoon
Yellow Submarine
I've Just Seen a Face
Mother Nature's Son
This Boy
Hey Jude- Beatles
Wild World
Moonshadow
Father & Son
Where Do the Children Play- Cat Stevens
Moondance
Brown Eyed Girl
Into the Mystic- Van Morrison
Pinball Wizard
Behind Blue Eyes- The Who
Standards-
Take The a Train
All of Me
Dark Town Strutters Ball
Sweet Georgia Brown
Georgia
Dream a Little Dream Of Me
Fly Me to The Moon
Summer Wind
New York, New York- Frank Sinatra
King of the Road- Roger Miller
Hotel California
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Take it Easy
Tequila Sunrise
Already Gone
Train Leaves Here This Morning- Eagles
Dance With me- Orleans
Spooky- Classics 4
Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Don't Mess around With Jim
Summer Breeze- Seals & Croft
Gentle On My Mind
Wichita Lineman- Glenn Campbell
Beginnings
25 or 6 to 4- Chicago
Sultans of Swing
Walk of Life- Dire Straits
Message in a Bottle
Fields of Gold- Police
The Boxer
Mrs Robinson
Scarboro Fair
Kodachrome
Sounds of Silence
Homeward Bound
Me & Julio
You Can Call Me Al
Late in The Evening
Summer of 69- Bryan Adams
American Girl
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Free Fallin'
Your So Bad- Tom Petty
Bye Bye Love
Wake Up Little Susie-
Every Brothers
Jersey Girl
Pink Cadillac
Cadillac Ranch
My Hometown- Bruce
Springsteen
You May Be Right
Piano Man
New York State of Mind
She's Got a Way About
Her- Billy Joel
Johnny B Goode
Memphis
C'est La Vie
Jet to the Promised
Land- Chuck Berry
Autumn Leaves
All the Things You Are
Misty
Take 5
Europa
Always on My Mind
Wave
Girl From Ipanema
Spanish Eyes
Blue Skies
Never on Sunday- Jazz
& standards
The Way you Do the
Things You Do
My Girl
Knock on Wood
Heard it Through the
Grapevine
Mustang Sally
Ruby Baby
Ain't No Sunshine
Drift Away- Motown
& R&B
On the Road Again
Good Hearted Woman
Blue Eyes Cryin in the
Rain
Mama's Don't Let Your
Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys- Willie Nelson
Sleepwalk- Santo &
Johnny
Margaritaville
Volcano- Jimmy Buffet
Listen to the music
China Grove- Doobie
Brothers
Reelin in the Years
Home at Last
Rikki Don't Lose that
Number- Steely Dan
Judy Blue Eyes
Southern Man
Just a Song Before I
Go
Teach Your Children
Helplessly Hoping
Love the One you're
With
4 & 20
Blue Sky
Ramblin Man
One Way Out
Statesboro Blues
Jessica
In Memory of Elizabeth
Reed
Little Martha
Soulshine
Authority Song
Jack & Diane- John
Mellencamp
Bad Moon Rising
Proud Mary
Looking Out my Back
Door- Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crazy Little Thing
Called Love- Queen
Doctor My Eyes-
Jackson Brown
End of The Line-
Traveling Wilburys
Dust in The Wind-
Kansas
Free Bird
Gimme Three Steps
Sweet Home Alabama-
Lynard Skynard
Halellugah- Leonard
Cohen
I Shot the Sheriff
Layla
Lay Down Sally
Before you "Cuse
Me
Tears in Heaven
Cocaine
After Midnight
Sunshine of Your Love
Can't Find My Way Home
Wonderful Tonight
I'm Your Captain-
Grand Funk Railroad
Maniac
On & On- Bread
Everybody's Talking-
Nillsen
Story in Your Eyes-
Moody Blues
Sundown
If you Could Read My
Mind- Gordon Lightfoot
Stairway to Heaven
Thank You- Led
Zeppelin
Takin Care of
Business- Bachman Turner Overdrive
The Weight
Up on Cripple Creek
The Night They Drove
Old Dixie Down- The Band
This Guy's in Love-
Burt Bacharach
Watching the
Detectives- Elvis Costello
We Just Disagree- Dave
Mason
Wonderwall- Oasis
Knee Deep- Zac Brown
Band
Runaround- Blues
Traveler
Embryonic Journey-
Jorma Kaukonen
Daniel
Crocodile Rock- Elton
John
Wind Cries Mary
Little Wing- Jimi
Hendrix
You Shook Me- AC DC
Europa
Black Magic Woman
Oye Como Va- Santana
The Gambler- Kenny
Rodgers
Me & Bobby Mcgee-
Kris Kristofferson
The Entertainer- Scott
Joplin
For What it's Worth
Go & Say Goodbye-
Buffalo Springfield
Sunshine
Shanty- Jonathan
Edwards
Brown Sugar
Sympathy For the Devil
Honky Tonk Woman
Wild Horses
Jumpin Jack Flash
The Last Time
No Expectations-
Rolling Stones
Aimee- Pure Prairie
League
Drift Away- Dobie Gray
Old Man
Heart of Gold
Down By the River
Southern Man
Harvest Moon
Sugar Mountain
After the Goldrush
Mr. Soul
Sweet Caroline
Solitary Man- Neil
Diamond
Don't Think Twice
If Not For You
Tangled Up in Blue
Rainy Day Woman 12x15
Taxi- Harry Chapin
Leader of the Band-
Dan Fogelberg
City of New Orleans
Alice's Restaurant-
Arlo Guthrie
Uncle John's Band
Sugar Magnolia
Touch of Grey
Friend of the Devil
Truckin'
U.S. Blues
Ripple
Eyes of the World
Bertha
Casey Jones- Grateful
Dead
...And much much more!
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