✍️ About
Bernie Lenhoff was classically trained on guitar as a child but found more in common with the singer/songwriters of the 60s & 70s. Inspired by the improvisation of the Grateful Dead, he taught himself electric bass and lead guitar. While studying theater in college, Bernie continued exploring music, including West Javanese Gamelan. Love of movement, percussion, and improv led him to become an expert tap dancer, performing in the movie "Tap" with Gregory Hines. Moving to the Bay Area in the 90s, he formed World Beat Bastards, a world beat power trio playing original uptempo dance music. Bernie has since… returned to his roots in acoustic guitar-driven Americana/folk/rock/pop, often covering other artists with fresh inventive arrangements. His latest tangent has been learning dobro, inspired by its melodic expressiveness. His main project currently is the acoustic trio If A Tree Falls, featuring the vibrant father-daughter blood harmonies of Mark & Jennie Walstrom woven into string arrangements of folk, rock, Americana, & beyond.
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