Steve Kaufman
Steve Kaufman (born April 20, 1957) is an American acoustic guitarist, author, educator, and three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Based in Maryville, Tennessee, he has published a catalog of more than 100 instructional books and media projects through Mel Bay Publications and Flatpik Central while touring globally as a performance workshop clinician. Alongside his wife, Donna Dixon, he co-founded Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp at Maryville College in 1995, developing it into one of the world's largest multi-week educational residencies specializing in bluegrass, old-time, and traditional roots instrumentation.