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Artist
Syd Sidney
12+ albums
about
Note: This artist formerly went by "Syd", and has since changed his artist name to Syd Sidney to avoid confusion with other artists. Born in Burlington, Vermont, Syd might as well have been born backstage at a festival or a music venue. Growing up surrounded by art, words, music and theater at home, he often accompanied his father Don to work at various high-level tour and production management gig where he’d watch legends like Bonnie Raitt and BB King from sidestage at festivals like Newport Folk and New Orleans Jazz Fest. It was only natural when his grandfather’s drum kit landed in his possession as a teenager that it would provide a creative catapult for a young Erin, who quickly made a name for himself as Syd playing parties and coffee shops in high school. The stages only got bigger when he moved to Boston to attend Emerson College and started securing festival gigs at colleges throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern United States opening for the likes of Taylor Swift and Hanson, sharing festival stages with John Mayer and Jason Mraz, and independently making records that garnered over 500,000 plays on mp3.com with a band that included the likes of Sam Smith, seen most often recently behind the kit with Ben Folds. But after several Syd records and countless miles on the road, his finely tuned knack for guiding his tourmates and collaborators to find their voices began to land him in the producer’s chair more often than the driver’s seat. In 2009 he produced
