Tony Hume

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Tony Hume (born: January 11, 1972 in Harrisonburg, VA) is a musician and live music fan. Tony gained notoriety as the founder and guitarist/vocalist for the travelling Orlando, FL based "Groove-delic Funk Rock" band called Kynda, formerly called 4:20.

1 Back In The Day
2 Florida
3 Early Live Music Days
4 Live Music
5 Music Now?
6 Musical Gear

[edit] Back In The Day

Born January 11, 1972 in Harrisonburg, VA to Robert and Sherry Hume, Tony grew up with his mother in Virginia Beach, VA. Moving to Newton, MA in 1989, Tony graduated high school from Newton North in 1990 where he was a member on the football team, and a standout on the wrestling team. He earned two trophies in regional tournaments and attended the 1990 State Wrestling Championship.

While trying his hand at community college back in Harrionsburg, VA didn't work out too well, Tony moved back to Massachusetts, this time to Lexington, MA. While in Virginia his love for the Grateful Dead grew exponentially and he began to learn how to play the guitar. Finding himself in Massachusetts again he took employment at a shopping mall music store (Record Town) which soon lead to being hired by Tower Records in Burlington, MA. A neighbor and best friend at the time, Jason Barthe, also began to learn how to play the guitar, and soon the two formed Chilldog, literally a garage band, recording duo performances in the basement in Lexington before taking a joyful car ride, smoking and listening to the recording.

[edit] Florida

In the summer of 1994, Tony moved to Orlando, Florida with then girlfriend Valerie Simonson. A year later after a separation from Valerie, began concentrating more heavily on the world of Phish, Tony helped form his first real band, Sharing In The Groove, which made its live debut in the early fall of 1995.

[edit] Early Live Music Days

4:20 began playing live music circa 1995 in local Orlando bars, changed lineups and material and finally the name in 2001 to Kynda. Their music was based on covering Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan tunes in early in the bands existence, progressing to playing "original covers" of Phish songs, and working original material in to the repertoire. Kynda played their final show on February 20, 2005 at Reilly's Lantern Pub, the place where they first began performing.

[edit] Live Music

Sharing In The Groove was given Sunday nights to play for friends at Reilly's Lantern Pub. A pack of friends just beginning to play music, aided by Pat Travers' bassist Rick Navaro helped to round out the group and get them playing live. By the spring of 1996 the band had split and Tony was playing alongside Dan Goore and Rex in a trio called 4:20. Carter Everett from the Refried Confusion was soon added on guitar, and later keyboardist Pete Orenstein. (Orenstein and Goore previously had a band called Bluesberry Jam.).Bassist Goore and keyboardist Orenstein remained bandmates along side Hume through the name change to Kynda,until the band played its last shows.

During most of the great band years of 1995-2005, Tony worked as a cellular salesman. AT&T Wireless proved to be a perfect employer and was very kind when working with needing to take off time for gigs. Milking it as long as possible, Tony was fired from AT&T and while accepting unemployment, worked full time for Kynda, the newly-formed corporation.

From spring 2004 until fall of 2006, Hume worked for the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando, FL as part of the international new store opening team, trainer, tour guide, and rock 'n roll historian.

He now resides in Miami, FL and has decided to further pursue collegiate endeavors.

[edit] Music Now?

Since the demise of Kynda in February of 2005, Hume has performed numerous solo acoustic performances, sat in live with various local bands and performed in the last two Florida Music Festivals. Hume then launched the electro funk project called THCv2.0 - the Tony Hume Collaboration. Formed in early 2006 along side CPU alchemist Justin Schroeder, Tony added his own style of "jammy" guitar to form a "jamtronica" mix of brooding technology. [1] [2]. During the late summer months of 2006, Tony joined forces with the Central Florida band, Brother Bean. [3][4]. This similar group of musicians have forged new ground while not only debuting new original material, but revisiting some of Hume's older material not heard live since last played with Kynda. Brother Bean has been slowly marking new territory across the state of Florida, playing long, jam-filled sets of live music for new fans.