About: Richard N. Fustino
Music Director

Richard N. Fustino, Music Director

Live on Stage with Students

Quick Points about Rich:

• Composer of 475 Songs+
• Matt’s Music Teacher 52 Yrs
  • Ani DiFranco, Started Her Career!
  • James Piorkowski, Buffalo Guitar Quartet
  • Maryalice Demler, Miss NY State 1990
• Audio Expert
• App Ideas – App Music
• Community Involvement
  • Annual – Week of Rock (12 Yrs!)
  • Charity Events
  • Local Rock Legend Events
  • Theater Show for Matt Music 51 Yrs
  • Save Hatti Music Event Raised $12,000 in 2010

Each year and a year or so back: Richard Fustino played at Canal Fest a place known for great music and food. Richard played on the main stage for Crossroads Music store. He sang 4 new original songs worked on with his cousin Gary Greco. "Trail of Tears", "Talk Beautiful", "I Know" and "Midnight". These songs were already published with lead sheets and full scores with bass lines of which Rich wrote especially for Gary Greco. The event was the first time in 30 years playing at this famous venue - Canal Fest 2016! Pete Zalocha the owner of Crossroads music did accompany Rich & Gary with his distinct classical guitar sound. The first song in the show was nearly 28 years old going back to Rich's band - Steele in 1988 called "Blues 88" with a new lead guitar especially written just for the festival. Richard was so excited about playing on the same stage as Coda also scheduled for the event. Other songs for Rich's performance include Elvis's "Don't be Cruel", Glen Campbell "Wichita Lineman", the Beatles' "Love Me Do", and an instrumental by Booker T and the MGs called "Green Onions". Ending the show with Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall".

About: Week of Rock

Rich's Week-of-Rock Students Get 'Rock n' Roll' History Lessons, First Hand, all Week!

About: Fustino Brothers, Inc.

​Originally from Western New York (you know part of the "Niagara Frontier", home of the resilient Buffalo Bill's - not to mention those "Wings", Sahlans Hotdogs, Beef-on-Weck, Milk Chocolate Sponge Candy, Greco Farms, Angola-on-the-Lake, and the famous Bethlem Steele rock bank) are now represented in the northeastern United States (Tonawanda), the western part of Florida's sun coast (Belleair Bluffs and New Port Richey). The Fustino Brothers are making headlines with a new venture, providing some serious work, all the while with having some fun in the sun.