Mike Baggetta

Mike Baggetta is a Gainesville, Florida-based guitarist, composer, and singer whose personal style blurs the lines between song and solo while connecting jazz, rock, and experimental music. He leads the post-genre power trio mssv with drummer Stephen Hodges and bassist Mike Watt, the new trio Casa Sueño with drummer John Herndon and Mike Watt, and has released music under his own name including Wall of Flowers, Everywhen We Go, and Canto on labels such as BIG EGO, Fresh Sound, ECM, and Joyful Noise. A Rutgers-educated jazz studies graduate, he has collaborated with Jim Keltner, Nels Cline, David Torn, Petra Haden, Psychic Temple, and Bernard Purdie, and is an endorsing artist for Koll Guitars, Benson Amps, D'Addario Strings, and Reunion Blues.