The Acoustic Guitar Project
One guitar. One week. One song.
The Acoustic Guitar Project is a global music platform—and concert series—that inspires musicians to write and record a song in one week on the same guitar.
The project originated in New York City and has spread around the world—from Amsterdam to Asheville, Havana to Hanoi, Minneapolis to Moscow, and São Paulo to...Syracuse.
Syracuse has one of the longest-running projects in the world, curated by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers. To date, Syracuse songwriters have written 65 songs on the project guitar, donated by Maryland’s Minor Bird Musical Instruments.
➢ Listen to all the songs on the Acoustic Guitar Project website or in the playlist below.
➢ Listen to a sampling of project songs (some in their original project recordings, some in new versions) on Spotify.
Coming next
12th annual
Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project Concert
November 7, 2025
Featuring Tim Herron ⟡ Brenna Merritt (Paper Rabbit) ⟡ Ryan Holweger ⟡ Bailey and Matt (Transient Kicks) ⟡ Jamie Notarthomas
Hosted by the Folkus Project at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, Syracuse
Syracuse project songwriters
This playlist includes all the project songs to date, in the order they were written.
2024
2023
2022
Amanda Rogers ⟡ J. Schnitt ⟡ Mark Allnatt ⟡ Susan Coleman and Mike Gridley ⟡ Chuck Schiele
2021
2020
Emalee Herrington ⟡ Grace Krichbaum ⟡ Kyle Micho ⟡ Nate Glyn ⟡ Ella Drotar
The 2020 project showcased next-generation songwriters—all in their teens to early 20s.
2019
2018
2017
Mark Hoffmann ⟡ Andrew Ruddy and Monique Ritter ⟡ Jane Zell ⟡ John McConnell ⟡ Stephen Douglas Wolfe
2016
2015
Donna Dennihy ⟡ Kim Monroe and Chris Eves ⟡ Joe Driscoll ⟡ Jeff Jones ⟡ Eddie Zacholl
2014
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers ⟡ Wendy Ramsay ⟡ Tim Burns ⟡ Colleen Kattau ⟡ Colin Aberdeen
Dana “Short Order” Cooke ⟡ Ashley Cox ⟡ John Cadley ⟡ Arty Lenin ⟡ Gary Frenay
In memory of Jack O. Bocchino
Jack O. Bocchino, the legendary supporter of the Central New York music scene who passed away in March 2020, was a major contributor to the Acoustic Guitar Project in Syracuse (learn more about Jack here). Jack photographed all the songwriters for the first six years of the project, as collected in this video. The soundtrack is “Twenty One Rounds” by Mike Powell, written for the project in 2016.
Till I’m Alone with You
I released my project song as a single in 2020. More about the song.
Only One
I wrote this song in 2022 when the Syracuse project reached the milestone of 50 songs, and I perform it here on the project guitar.