Tracy Kinard

25 years of experience playing in various rock ‘n’ roll bands in York County.  As a well known local entertainer, Tracy likes to uphold a very professional attitude and style for all venues.

Influences:  Journey, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Matchbox 20, Three Doors Down and more…

I picked up a guitar at the tender age of 3.  My father, my motivator for acoustic guitar, impressed upon me the twanging sounds of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams, Sr.  I can vividly remember my father strumming his guitar and singing the words to “Salty Dog” by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - as I sat so intently hanging on his every word trying to remember them as I strummed on my guitar along with him.  When I was 4, I finally had mastered the lyrics and rhythms to the old time favorite.  Dad produced a reel-to-reel recording of the ‘remade masterpiece’ - my very first cover tune ‘release’.

As time moved me into my early teen years, my unconscious desire for music thickened, inspired by some of the world's top rock bands – Kiss and Foreigner.  Def Leppard, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne were some of the few icons who walked with me through those years of exploring to find out who is Tracy Kinard.  I remember feeling an unquenchable desire to be part of a rock band that would have a tasteful diversity in music that I had acquired over the years.