Guitar: Chris Ferguson

Chris Ferguson is the guitarist in the New York cover band the Walker Dance Park Band. He was the founder of the band and he has been an important part of their success. As they become more and more well known around New York this success is likely to continue and hopefully to grow even further.

Chris Ferguson has been playing the guitar since he got his first one when he was thirteen. Since then he has played in countless bands, most of them just garage bands however there have been a few professional jobs as well. While in high school Ferguson and some of his friends formed a band that played in the garage of his parent's house. After graduating Ferguson set off for New York to make his career as a rock star. Instead he ended up teaching people how to play the guitar in order to his bills.

After arriving in New York Ferguson auditioned for jobs with a number of bands, he managed to get hired a few times but none of the bands that he played with ever really got anywhere. Paying jobs where few and far between so Ferguson started teaching guitar as a way to earn some money. It was during this time that he decided that rather than be dependent on others to help him move his musical career forward he would start his own band. The result was the Walker Dance Park Band. The early years of the band were really no more successful than they had been for any of the other bands that he had played with.

Things all started to change for Ferguson and his band when they needed to replace their lead singer and they chose to go with Bruce Vanderweyer. What Vanderweyer brought to the band besides being a good singer was that he understood how the business side of things worked. He was able to get the band booked for a lot more shows than they had been doing previously. Fairly quickly the Walker Dance Park Band was getting regular shows all over New York and the members were able to earn a full time living playing music.

Chris Ferguson continues to be an important part of the Walker Dance Park Band as they continue to become more and more popular around New York. They are popular with event planners because of the huge repertoire of songs that they can perform and the fact that they are much more professional than most other bands. Event planners have a lot of things that they have to deal with and having a band that will show up ready to play when they are supposed to be there goes a long way to making their lives simple. This professionalism has been one of the keys to the bands success.