Tod Neil Page was raised in Montana and Southern Alberta, Canada and currently resides on the central California coast near Santa Cruz. He has played guitar, mandolin, piano and dobro in American bands from Missouri, Hawaii and California. He has worked with Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Romance Rodeo, DB Walker and Thomas Dolby, and recorded with countless bands in the LA music scene of the late 1980‘s and early 1990’s, including performing music and folly for children’s cartoons and early ringtones for Nokia. If you were in LA at that time you might have heard him at the Sidewalk Cafe in Venice Beach or the Toi on Sunset in Hollywood where he was often booked. He credits Jimi Hendrix, Lowell George, Mick Taylor, Elton John and Stevie Wonder as his earliest musical influences. He once offered up the “new age” tune “I’m turning Japanese” to a bluegrass circle in Winfield Kansas when it was his turn to pick the next tune to play. “I was about 14 years old and had just learned it for a new band. This was around the night campfire, back when the top performers would sit in for while and this night a mandolin player named David Grisman was at ours. … After the laughter died down they just ripped it up, took it to a place which would later be called New Grass. It changed me forever.”

He escaped LA to the SF Bay area to help design and build high end mixing consoles for Euphonix in Palo Alto, Ca. He is a supporter of all things wild, most notably the local predatory wildlife as his hobby of gentleman ranching was quickly exploited by the local lion and coyote population. The same animals are returning the favor by keeping the deer out of the vegetables he now farms near Ano Nuevo State Reserve. His animal husbandry has evolved from horses, sheep other hoofed livestock to honey bees and his heroes are Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce and the late guitarist and friend Jay Bennett, of Wilco and TLA.

He has degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Missouri – Columbia (tigers) and is a certified Windsurfing Instructor and Wilderness Guide and ex-Guard. He worked as an engineer for Chevron and Shell Oil companies but left after 5 years to start repaying his debt to the planet for accepting the lucrative rewards of such work. He now plays mainly acoustic Singer/Songwriter shows at venues from Big Sur to British Columbia (see:www.costanoa.com ) to stay near aging relatives and the kindred spirits of Pacific Coast people and animals that he loves. He has written and recorded 4 un-released solo records since 2003 with nature and animals as the inspiration and often the accompaniment. His catalog of original songs is over 300 deep and growing and he embraces the anti-rock star concept of performing, believing that self promotion and musical creativity are likely antagonistic forces. He can be reached through his email , todneilpage@gmail.com. For booking or recording dates contact his manger, Mrs. B.V. Rossi at 650.879.0429.