I was born and raised in an old textile mill town along the Androscoggin River in rural Maine, where I spent most of my childhood running through the woods, splashing across creeks and scrambling up trees. My first jobs were in a door factory and working in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant that was part of the early revitalization of a massive old mill building. That restaurant is where I played my first show. 

My life since then has taken me back and forth across the country- Boston, PDX, Seattle, back to Maine, and now an extended layover in Chicago. Early on I fell in love with poetry and its many different forms; pantoums are a favorite of mine for their evolution through repetition. Words, and the images I create with them, are the heart of the stories I tell. Those stories, in turn, are the heart of the music I make.

After years of rock & roll, in 2023 I began to study fingerstyle guitar, slide, and alternate tunings with the brilliant Steve Doyle of Chicago, who introduced me to the vast infinities of the fretboard. That process taught me the value of humility and how necessary struggle is to growth. 

I do not play guitar with effects pedals; I run mostly through low wattage tube amps . This allows me to use the natural output of my guitars and the breakup of the amps to create organic sounds that are warm and raw and biting and snarling and everything in between. 

Music is how I understand and experience the world, much like science for some, or philosophy or law or history or religion for others. I am grateful to have it so prominent in my life and there is little I love more than creating, playing, and sharing it with people I care about.

My goal is to continue to write, play, and perform music that is sincere, meaningful, provocative and challenging. Music that is sad and happy and human. Music that is familiar yet not quite anything you have heard before. I am always in search of the unexpected inevitable. 

Thanks for listening.

Christo Sedgewick     
Chicago, 2026