Celebrating the Art of Fingerstyle Guitar

Playing
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Avalon
The Happy Farmer
Dance WIth Me
Drive Inn
Mystery Train
One Note Samba
I'll Follow The Sun
Jessica
Wave
Ready For The Times To Get Better
Relaxin'
Here Comes The Sun
I'll See You In My Dreams / Anytime
Borsalino
Yesterday

Meet The Trio

Andre Bonaguidi

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Buddy Winston

Guitar & Fearless Leader

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Doug
NEAL

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The Story

During the Covid-19 pandemic isolation, members of the popular local group, “The Cruisers” got together from time-to-time to record original compositions at Star City Studio Productions, LLC in El Paso.

The group worked so well together in the studio that three members of the band decided to get together on a regular basis to arrange and record a variety of music styles in addition to recording original material.

Out of this process The Star City Trio was formed with the intent to share and perform their instrumental arrangements of jazz standards, pop, blues, country and more for private and special events.

The Star City Trio features John (Buddy) Winston on guitar, Doug Neal on bass and Andre Bonaguidi on percussion.

The Star City Trio is available for bookings.

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Andre Bonaguidi

Andre Bonaguidi is a 50+year veteran of the drums and effortlessly navigates the diversity of the group’s versatile music. 

A product of the 1960s band scene, he recorded on the Hi Record label with the group “Swift Rain” and went on to a career in studio and performance work.  During his musical career, he has opened for such acts as Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat, Johnny Rivers and the Grassroots. 

His musical influences include Bobby Fuller, the Beatles, Dave Brubeck & Stones.  His set of choice is a Slingerland White Pearl that has been his companion since the 1970s.

John "Buddy" Winston

John (Buddy) Winston plays the guitar, 5-string banjo, ukulele, bass and sings. Recently retired from full-time medical physics Buddy now devotes most of his time to making music.

He started playing guitar during the folk music revival during the mid-1960’s and began playing the 5-string banjo after hearing Earl Scruggs play Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Early guitar influences include Peter Paul and Mary, Chet Atkins, Doc Watson Los Indios Tabajaras, Jerry Reed, Richard Smith,  John Knowles and anyone else who had a lick to steal.

He has worked and recorded with a several local groups including Los Paisanos, Jerry, Buddy, and Zoomer, The Applejack Band, PT and the Cruisers and more recently, The Cruisers.

Buddy co-owns Star City Studio Productions, LLC. with his wife Patricia and is president of Lone Star Physics, Inc.

Doug Neal

Doug Neal has been performing and recording music since the early 60’s. His musical groups have included the Instigators, The Infants of Soul, The Randall Fuller Group, Gorilla, a founding member of the Moon Pie Dance Band, PT and The Cruisers, The Star City All Stars (The Cruisers) and currently the Star City Trio.

Over the years he has been on stage with the likes of ZZ Top, Steve Miller, Emily Lou Harris, The Blues Brothers, The Dirt Band, America, New Riders of the Purple Sage Hank Williams Jr. Eddie Rabitt, Ricky Skaggs just to name a few.  Even once opened for Kiss.

Currently with the Cruisers and the Star City Trio, Doug plays bass, sings  and acts as an engineer/producer at Star City Studios.