Joseph Ensley began playing guitar at age seven and has been a private classical and acoustic guitar instructor since 2009. He taught at Pinner Studios from 2011-2015 and previously taught at Notability Music Store in Taylors, SC (2010-2011) and Griffin School for the Arts in Griffin, GA 2007-2009). He is a certified instructor for Guitars Not Guns, a youth outreach for at-risk children. His responsibilities have included private pedagogy and program development/ implementation of summer guitar and ukelele camps for all ages. 

Mr. Ensley's instructors have included John Sutherland of the University of Georgia, Dr. Patrick Flynn at Bob Jones University and ten years previously with Dr. William Hearn of Clayton State University. He has also performed and studied in master classes with David Russell, Andrew Zohn (Columbus State University, Columbus, GA), Mary Ackerman (Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA) Carlos Bonell and Steve Buckland.

Mr. Ensley won a full Spivey Music Scholarship to Clayton State University in Morrow, GA in 2009. In the fall of 2008, Mr. Ensley won first prize at Bob Jones University's Classical Guitar/Harp competition, which included a summer scholarship and one semester's program fee. In the spring of 2007 he was a top prizewinner in two performance competitions in Georgia.

Mr. Ensley began performing  at Griffin Community Concerts Young Artist Showcase in 2002. Since 2005, Mr. Ensley has performed regularly as a freelance artist and has conducted educational programs for local schools. In 2008, he was the featured soloist for the Georgia College and State University orchestra and gave a solo benefit concert for Griffin School for the Arts. Mr. Ensley was a guest performer at Bob Jones University's 2010 Commencement Concert, then again in 2011 when he played for the Il Trovatore opera production. In 2014, He performed with a Celtic group as part of the Charleston SC Piccolo Spoleto festival. In 2015 he performed with the Spartanburg Philharmonic orchestra on guitar and electric bass. He has also played in numerous solo recitals, weddings and ensembles. Currently, he works with GreenvilleWeddingMusic.com, as a freelance artist and as studio guitarist for Brightwater Digital studios and as a duo partner in FretsandBows. Mr. Ensley's latest recording is a solo guitar album entitled “In Christ Alone”, but he also co-arranged and performed on a duo CD called: “Echoes of Mercy”.  In 2016 and 2017 he served on the judges panel and as a guest artist for the Southern Guitar Festival in Columbia, SC.

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Tracy Ensley is a teacher and performer of violin, viola, and piano. She has been adjunct faculty at Bob Jones University and String Instructor at Spartanburg Day School and Pinner Studios. Mrs. Ensley is currently a violinist with both the Charleston Symphony and is Principal Second Violin at the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Assistant Principal II violinist at Greenville Symphony Orchestra. 
She has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions including the Samuel and Elinor Thaviu String Scholarship Competition, Union League Civic and Arts Competition, the James Glacking Memorial Music Competition, the Evanston Music Club Scholarship, the Farwell Award of the Musicians Club of Women, the Nancy Fuqua Memorial Musical Arts Competition and the Chicago/North Shore chapter of the American Guild of Organists competition. She has many years of professional experience as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral member, and accompanist. In 2011 Tracy soloed with three different orchestras, playing the entire Elgar Violin Concerto, the Max Bruch violin and viola Concerto, and Alexander Tchaikovsky's “Distant Dreams of Childhood.” She has performed as soloist with the Peninsula Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, the Northwestern Symphony Summer Orchestra, the North Suburban Symphony, the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra, the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, and the Lake Forest Symphony.  She also made a CD with her husband that was released in May of 2013  entitled "Echoes of Mercy" and includes sacred selections for violin, viola, piano, and guitar. 
Tracy graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance and Historic Keyboard and a Master’s degree in Viola Performance. During her time at Northwestern Tracy held positions as concertmaster in both the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra and the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. She studied violin and viola with Roland and Almita Vamos, and organ with Margaret Kemper. She currently resides with her husband, Joseph, a classical guitarist, with whom she loves to collaborate! She teaches a small,  private studio from her home and performs regularly as a freelance musician with several groups, including FretsandBows, Trillium (a string trio) and the Mulfinger String Quartet.

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We are frequently asked for a "song list," however, a real song list would be unpractical because we have over a thousand songs that we can play at a moment's notice. Our specialty is that we can do just about any song you like, any style, and do a classy arrangement of it. If you pick a few of your favorite songs, especially the important ones for Processional and Recessional, we can tailor make a song list of similar style for your prelude or cocktail hour or whatever your need. Just leave it up to us and you have less work to do! However, since we recognize that sometimes seeing a "menu" helps to get the ideas flowing, here is just a small sampling of some of our current favorites:

Traditional classical:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring....Johann Sebastian Bach
Arioso....Johann Sebastian Bach
Rondeau......Jean Joseph Mouret
Alla Danza from Water Music by George Frideric Handel
Meditation from Thais....Jules Massenet
Canon in D by Pachebel 
Appalachia Waltz by Mark O'connor

Modern pop:
A Thousand years....Christina Perri
I'm Yours....Jason Mraz
Lucky....Jason Mraz 
All of Me...John Legend
Hey, Soul Sister
Viva La Vida

Older Songs:
Beatles (All You Need is Love, Here, There, and Everywhere, etc)
Frank Sinatra (Fly me to the Moon, Ain't that a kick in the head, Pennies from Heaven, etc)
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Blue Velvet
Gershwin
Love Me Tender
Misty

Romantic Favorites:
La vie en Rose
Time in a Bottle...Jim Croce
Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Country:
Wagon Wheel....Darius Rucker
On the Road again....Willie Nelson
Georgia on my Mind
Margaritaville
Take Me Home, Country Roads

Classics from musicals:
Til There Was You
Edelweiss
I Whistle a Happy Tune
Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Sacred Selections:
We can arrange any hymn you like!
Great is thy Faithfulness
In Christ Alone
Amazing Grace, etc