Facebook Live show Aaron@ is an accesible platform for collaboration-minded artists.
New Hampshire native Aaron Lehtonen is a self taught guitar player who first fell in love with playing music at age five. He has released 20 recordings - starting with a debut record produced in 1998 at Sound Design Studios in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Lehtonen is comfortable across a variety of genres, from acoustic Americana to heavy metal, and has toured and played gigs at venues all over the U.S. Now based in Boston, he is finishing up work on his latest album - to be released in the near future.
His pet music project is producing and hosting a Facebook Live show called Aaron@ - which features guest musicians, singers and songwriters who play live with Lehtonen on Facebook as accompaniment and then do a Q&A.
The latest 'Aaron@' program features multi-instrumentalist Sean Lowe who counts bass, drums, guitar, mandolin and keyboards among his talents - in addition to recording and production. Lowe has produced two solo recording projects: "Songs about death and people I don't like, Vol. I," and "The definitive guide to cynicism." He is currently working on a third solo EP.
Lowe and Lehtonen performed their latest collaboration - "Lifted (Can't Bring Me Down)" - in this December 14 performance recorded during the Aaron@ FB show.
Lehtonen is one of approximately 10,000 members of the Facebook group "Original Songs Only," which was established for songwriters and performers to showcase their original music and help support and promote the work of other artists.