Brad Macdonald

Brad Macdonald has been making music for most of his life. He grew up in the small southern Illinois town of Collinsville, and at an early age, he was drawn to the old spinet piano in his childhood home. He soon began a love affair with music that would become a life-long passion. Because of his parents' polarized tastes in music, Brad grew up loving a broad range of music, from the folk-inspired storytelling of Jim Croce and Kris Kristofferson, to the virtuosic improvisational jazz of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk; from the foot-stomping country of Garth Brooks and Waylon Jennings, to the classic masterpieces of Mozart and Grieg.