Grammy winning musician Scot Ray will play guitars with poet Joel Long and Phyllis Barber will read from her fiction on May 9th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art reading Series. Multi-instrumentalist Scot Ray is an active and innovative musician/composer. Being equally fluid on 6, 12, and 22 string slide guitars, as well as slide trombone and tuba, Ray has been featured on many recordings covering a wide spectrum of styles. Ray spent a three year period recording and touring with 'Stray Cat' Brian Setzer and his rockabilly orchestra. Ray received a Grammy for his work on "Caravan" from Setzer's 2000 release entitled "Vavoom. Ray has also performed with Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, blues legend Cash McCall, jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, Elliot Easton of The Cars, Cuban conguero Francisco Aguabella, and pop diva Gwen Stefani; as well as working with such new music pioneers as Nels Cline, Vinny Golia, Alex Cline, Jeff Gauthier, Steuart Liebig, Michael Cain, Shaun Naidoo, Adam Lane, Ryan Francesconi, Bill Barrett, Tom Varner & Mark Dresser. He has performed in well over a dozen countries including appearances at The DuMaurier Jazz Festival and Eddie Moore Jazz Festival. In addition to playing on numerous soundtracks, which include Stuart Little, Me Myself and Irene, and Three To Tango, Ray has also performed on such prime time shows as Sessions At W. 54th Street, Conan OÂBrien, Late Night with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Ray currently resides in a small mountain town - balancing his time between traveling, composing, and reinventing an old stage coach stop which he now calls home. Joel LongÂs book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbook, ChopinÂs Preludes was published in January by Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, Weber Studies, Willow Springs, Sonora Review, Mid-American Review, , Rhino, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Seattle Review among others. His poems have been anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and Fresh Water. He won the Sherwin Howard Award in 2004 for his poems in Weber Studies. Currently teaching creative writing and English at Rowland Hall-St. MarkÂs, Long received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers at Work in 2002 and was the Jordan School District Educator of the Year in 2004. He is the founder of the Lake Effect Writers Conference and the president of the City Art reading series. Phyllis Barber has published six books, including How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir; And the Desert Shall Blossom, a novel; The School of Love and Parting the Veil: Stories from a Mormon Imagination (short stories); plus two children's books, as well as pieces in many literary magazines such as Kenyon Review, North American Review, Fiction International, The Chariton Review, The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, Crazyhorse, among others. She received Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XIII (1988) for "Wild Sage" and Distinguished Western Story Mention in Best of the West 6 for "At the Talent Show" and Best of the West 3 for "Criminal Justice" (also appearing in Crosscurrents Best Fiction Anthology, July 1994). In 1996 she received first prize in the Sunstone D.K.Brown Fiction Competition for "Mormon Levis." In 1991, she received the Associated Writing Program Award Series Prize in Creative Nonfiction for How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir. In 1993, the book was also awarded Best Autobiography by the Association for Mormon Letters. A member of the faculty of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program since 1990, she received the Louise Crowley & Roger Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching in Summer, 1999. She also taught as a Visiting Writer at the University of Missouri in Columbia (Spring 1994). She is a co-founder of the Writers at Work Conference in Park City. Barber was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, October 2005. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL