Geoff Farina

Geoff Farina has been writing songs, making records, and touring for almost 20 years. He is best known his 12 years fronting Boston’s progressive rock trio Karate, as one-half of the seminal early-90s indie duo The Secret Stars, and more recently, as the leader of Glorytellers, his acoustic trio with a pair of releases on Southern Records. Geoff currently lives in Chicago where he teaches music history at DePaul University, plays in several bands, performs classic pre-WWII Piedmont and Delta guitar arrangements, and collects vintage guitars.


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Recent Press

  • Sunday Times Stewart Lee - "Prick up Your Ears' describes small-town soldiers departing for Iraq with commendable sobriety in a folksy idiom, that emphasises their timeless circumstance"
    • Time Out - “Mellifluous jazz guitar, irresistible melodies, and heart-tuggingly understated vocals”
      • Alternative Press - "If Farina has learned anything in his 20-plus years as a musician, it's how to turn the worst parts of life into the greatest art."
      • The A.V. Club - "Raw, unorthodox, and honest, his style blends gritty blues riffs with jazzy, prose-like lyrical structure."
      • Washington City Paper - "Farina has toiled for 15 years as one of the hardest-working indie rockers in the business, creating songs that unfold like time-lapse nature photography, slowly building to a rugged beauty..."
      • Popmatters - "Farina’s brilliant guitar technique can, as it did in Karate, still threaten to make these folk songs sound mannered. But luckily, he’s learned to let his sweet, rolling vocals shoulder the emotional load on these tracks. It is quite a feat to see a guy, particularly one who left his last band at the height of its powers, try something completely different, and totally succeed."
      • AM New York - "Acoustic strumming accompanies the singer's frank delivery of sad truths with lyrics that are bluntly poetic. It's simple and sad, and I love it so much that it kind of hurts my heart. "
      • Pocket Jury - "Former Karate front-man pens beautifully realised folk-leaning love letter to the Kennebec River."
      • DOA - "one of Geoff Farina’s most generously melodic collections, which repays patience with warmth from a distinctive songwriting intellect."
      • Steven Rainy BBC Radio 1 Ulster - "it's a wonder piece of work.."
        • Slow Thrills - "both a fine collection of contemporary songs and a homage to legendary folk guitarists"
          • clicky clicky music -"consistently rich and rewarding"

          • Americana UK - "Geoff Farina has something many musicians could only dream of attaining."

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Video

"Hammer and Spade" Live

Geoff Farina Interviews

AV Club Chicago
Slow Thrills