About Tom Breiding, Teacher and Artist

Tom Breiding is a Gateway to the Arts performing     artist. His epic songs echo the voices resonating     from the coalfields of West Virginia, the mills of     industrial Pittsburgh, and the Main Streets of     small-town America. His recent release     The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia     Coalfields spent sixteen weeks in the top 100 on     the AMA Chart, climbing as high as #55, and     reached #18 on the RMR Folk Chart with more than     1100 reported spins in every corner of the U.S.     Once a staff-writer at Nashville's famed Collins     Music, Tom is a diverse musician who currently     tours and performs as a member of three different     bands and as a solo artist, has produced five     albums for his independent label AmeriSon Records,     conducts regular songwriting workshops, and has     performed his material in venues from Times Square     to Ventura Boulevard and in more than 100 schools     in recent months. Tom can be booked for school     programs via Gateway to the Arts.     www.gatewaytothearts.org / 412.342.4444