Bio

Elizabeth Day Lawrence: Guitarist | Educator

Traveling Norway by Van, 2022

A skilled and seasoned guitarist, Elizabeth lives for music. She has been studying the guitar for over 20 years (as well as many other instruments- tenor sax, pedal steel guitar, and bassoon to name a few). She is known as a strong and dependable touring, sub, and session musician, as well as an inspiring and passionate music educator. 


Elizabeth has toured extensively throughout her career, working with Grammy award-winning performers and internationally acclaimed acts; inhabiting a vast spectrum of genres and scenes from intimate dive bars in the American South to the prestige and glamour of performing for royalty at the Monaco Red Cross Gala. She has found herself onscreen featured as a guitarist on the set of "Nashville," and onstage opening for acts such as The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Kool and the Gang, George Benson, Leon Russell, Zucchero, Patricia Kaas, Christine and the Queens, Richard Hogsdon (Supertramp), Lynyrd Skynyrd, Martina McBride, and more.


She is also the founder and owner of Root Note Studio, a  highly regarded music lessons studio based out of Lowell, MA and Nashville, TN. Through her work building and managing the studio, she has made her dedication to exemplary, accessible music instruction and community music abundantly clear.


While she teaches all ages and abilities, Elizabeth is additionally sought out as a specialized instructor to some of Nashville's finest performers and songwriters. She distinctly enjoys connecting with a diverse and global student base and is sought out as a guitarist and pedal steel guitarist for hire.


Currently based out of East Nashville, Elizabeth spends her time indulging her love of learning, working on enhancing her interdisciplinary guitar curriculum, exploring innovative teaching strategies, and studying to expand and enrich her own understandings and methods.

*Thank you to Chrissy Benson for her assistance in crafting this bio.


Highlights-

Root Note Studio

  • Root Note Studio

    Root Note Studio

    music lessons | events | community

    Est. 2011 in Lowell MA

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    Root Note Ramble

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    Kids/Teens Root Note Ramble

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    Guitar Students

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    Saturday Morning Jam

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    Root Note Studio presents:

    Anthony Wellington- A Musicians Clinic

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    Root Note Studio presents:

    Blues and Fingerstyle Guitar Clinic with Toby Walker

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    Root Note Studio presents:

    Toby Walker in concert

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    Root Note Studio presents:

    Clinic with Kaki King

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    Root Note Studio presents: 

    Kaki King in concert

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    Saturday Morning Jam

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    Elizabeth with a student in Lowell, MA

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    Root Note Studio- Lowell, MA

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    Root Note Studio- Nashville, TN

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    Saturday Morning Jam- 2025

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Teachers, Mentors, & Friends

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    Fantastic weekend with Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan) and Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)

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    Learning through immersion with Redd Volkaert (Merle Haggard) at FAI 2016

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    Anthony Wellington (Victor Wooten Band)- mentor and friend

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    Seymour Duncan- friend and inspriation

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    Toby Walker- childhood mentor and clinic guest in 2016

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    Victor and Ant- strong musical and educational influences.

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    With Brian Wampler (Wampler Pedals) and Carl Verheyen (Supertramp) at NAMM 2020

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    Childhood student of Buddy Charleton (Ernest Tubb)- beloved teacher and mentor, 2003-2007

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Live Performance

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    On tour with JD & the Straight Shot

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    Opening for Patricia Kaas-

    The Opera de Monte Carlo, Monaco

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    TV appearance on the set of "Nashville"

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    Performing at The Family Wash- Nashville, TN

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    On tour with Back to Avalon- a Tribute to Heart

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    Zurich, Switzerland

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Current Gear-

  • Kemper Amps
  • Fender Amps
  • D'addario strings (NYXL 10s, and Nickel-Bronze 12s)
  • Seymour Duncan Pickups (Antiquity)
  • Shubb Capos
  • Wampler Pedals
  • GFI Pedal Steel Guitars
  • Sarno Music Solutions- Earth Drive
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