April 2010: Just returned from 10 days in the Swiss Alps ... check out my Facebook page for pics. Songs from Diane Ward's CD "The Great Impossible" are featured in the documentary "Blindsided" which regulary airs on HBO.... Diane and Jack continue work on her next CD...Check out Diane's webisite for upcoming shows...

Our Celtic rock group "Three Jacks" (featuring Jack on guirtars, Diane Ward on drums and percussion, and Debbie Duke on bass) will be headed to Nicargua to play concerts to raise money for a worldwide charitable organization of orphanges...check out the Three Jacks website for details...This follow on the heals of our successful fundraising concerts in Peru and Miami for Jackson Memorial Hospital.....Thanks so much to everyone who contributed, and if you'd like to make a financial contribuition, go to the Three Jacks website.....

The new Stephanie Callahan CD is finished and will released very soon.....it will be mastered by grammy award winner Bob Katz! Work continues on new projects by Amanda Stallings and our old friend Jim Wurster from Black Janet. Jack is also working on an interesting project with LA based songwriter Karma. Check out Jack's Facebook and MySpace pages to link to all of these very talented artists.

Jack will be playing at the venerable Gamble Rogers Festival in Saint Augustine with MAGDA HILLER. He has also recently played shows with The Shackdaddy's, Raiford Starke, Dave Shelly, Billy Vasquez, Marrianne Fleming and Halcyon. He also performed at several clinics at various Sam Ash stores with funk bassist Andy Irvine (sponsored by Spector basses)....and is regularly doing session work all over the south....busy times.....

Much thanks to my good friend Steve Wildey at Glades Guitars for hooking me up with Collings Guitars....and to Colllings for making me some fantastic acoustic guitars and a wonderful mandolin.....Bill Colling's work is impeccable and the instruments sounf ground great !!!! And also a shout out to Cliff at Destroy All Guitars in North Carolina for hooking me up with Louis Sorano of Louis Electric Amps....these are fantastic amps played by Robben Ford, Keith Richards, and others. My news KR 12 head/cabinet sounds killer !!!!

Visit Jack onFacebook and MYSPACE www.myspace.com/jackshawde.

Jack Shawde is a true craftsman. For the past decade, he has lent his dexterous and soulful stringwork to the music of Miami singer-songwriter Diane Ward, with whom he shares a seemingly supernatural musical connection on-stage and in the studio. Shawde co-produced her latest recording, 2002’s The Great Impossible, and adds texture and shading to her deeply personal music. On the opening “Wide Awake,” he picks a reverb-laden 12-string guitar for a Beatlesque effect. The exuberant “Shooting Rockets” finds him skinning frets with a lean and gritty slide solo. His beautifully picked acoustic solely accompanies Ward’s piano and emotionally naked vocals on the achingly wistful “Perfect Kiss.” And Shawde adds harmonica to his acoustic playing behind Ward and harmonizer Brian Franklin on a stripped-down version of “Baby Look Up.” Besides adding ambient sounds on a couple of tunes, Shawde also strums, picks or plucks lap steel, Mando guitar, baritone guitar and electric EBow guitar, which are just a few of the 60-odd instruments in his arsenal. You’d never know it to see him on-stage in jeans and sleeveless T, but Shawde is also a lawyer with the Miami firm Steel, Hector and Davis.

Read the Cover Story in Street Magazine about the recording of the new Diane Ward CD that was produced by Jack Shawde and also features his guitar playing.

Read the Miami Herald article featuring Jack.

"guitar god" Miami New Times

"...Jack Shawde, whose fluency and imagination as a player, producer and arranger make him one of the regional music scene's indispensable people."  Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, FL