No one has ever asked me why I chose to play the guitar! Maybe this is because the guitar can be viewed as a cliché musical instrument, an instrument that lacks the elitist quality of its classical counterparts? However I feel that the reason why I chose to learn to play the guitar is not because of its image – the fact that the guitar is indeed visually iconic and stunning – nor was it because it is a relatively easy instrument to learn but rather, I think, it was because it featured so prominently in the music that I listen to in my youth; music that later I came to cherish. It is for this reason that I just had to play the instrument as there was no other instrument that I would have loved as much as I loved the guitar, indeed the guitar was so important to me and my music that I can now say that the reason why I wanted to learn to play the guitar was because I guess I always knew that it would someday become the physical representation and means of how I could express myself - mind, body and soul - sonically.

Today the guitar is central in both my personal and professional life. This is because whether I find myself teaching a class of children, tutoring a student, wanting to write some music, perform live and/or in the studio or I want to simply relax, I know that the guitar, always within arms reach, will be there for me.

If you are interested in hiring Gareth Heritage as a session guitarist then contact can be established via e-mail: heritage_of_rock_records@hotmail.com