Petaluma native, Mitchell Thomas is a guitarist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and private instructor who writes and performs a blend of rock, jazz, world music and hip-hop. His early influences on the guitar include David Gilmour, James Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Pat Metheny. Mitch has traveled to The Gambia in West Africa to learn the kora, a 21 string harp-lute, and then to southern Spain to study flamenco guitar.