BEN ROBINSON

Ben Robinson is a young guitar player who is amazing audiences from New York to California.

On May 11, 1999, Ben sat in with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra on The Late Show with David Letterman.  Paul referred to Ben as a "blues prodigy", and Letterman said he was a "blues genius".

The 14-year-old self-taught artist is influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, B.B. King and other guitar greats.

Ben started performing when he was eleven. He  lives in Temecula, California. To see more about Ben and hear his music, go here.

LYDIA WARREN

Lydia Warren is a 17-year-old singer and guitarist from Franklin, Massachusetts. She is a senior at Franklin High School. She started taking voice lessons when she was 10 and started studying bass guitar a bit later. She was inspired to play the blues when her father showed her a videotape of a performance by Albert King.

Lydia started jamming around Boston and then started her own band, the Lydia Warren Band. Recently she released her first recordings on a five-song CD.

For more information on Lydia, go here.

IVAN MARTIN

Ivan Martin is a 15-year-old guitarist who lives in Sarasota, Florida. Ivan is self-taught and has been playing for about five years. Here is a photo of him appearing with Chris Anderson (formerly of The Outlaws) at Traders in Lakeland, Florida in 1999