Sam Miltich

Sam Miltich grew up in northern Minnesota in a musical family. Gatherings in the Miltich home bring family and friends together to play music and sing. Sam has played music from a young age starting on the piano, learning to read and write music, then playing bass and tuba for his school's band. At age 14, Sam began to study the guitar seriously. Exposed to many styles of music, some of Sam's musical influences include: Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Andres Segovia, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Maurice Ravel, Stevie Wonder, Stochelo Rosenberg, and Bireli Lagrene. Sam is a lover of all musical styles from jazz, to rock, to classical, to tamburitzan, to Brazilian bossa nova. At age 15, Sam heard Django Reinhardt's music in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" and knew he would dedicate his life to the music of Django Reinhardt and the art of the gypsy jazz guitar. Sam has played throughout the country as well as Holland, Germany, and Japan. He toured with David Grisman and the Stephane Wremble Trio in 2006 on Amoeba Music's "Gypsy Caravan." Sam played at the Lincoln Center in New York City as a member of the Robin Nolan Trio at a concert honoring Django with international musicians. Sam has also toured with Paul Mehling's Hot Club of San Francisco. Sam has shared the stage and bill with such great artists as the Ferre' Brothers, Angelo DeBarre, Dorado Schmitt, Fapy Lafertin, Ludovic Beier, Samson Schmitt, and Ken Pepolowski.