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2023 New Mexico Music Hall of Fame Inductee 

Source: New Mexico Hall of Fame Facebook site.

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Video (Facebook): Michael talks about how he got his big break and some of the folks that he's performed with.

Video (Facebook): NM Hall of Fame 2023 Performance of Groovy Samba. Musicians: Glenn Kostur tenor sax, Paul Gonzales trumpet, Milo Jaramillo bass, John Bartlet drums, Michael Anthony guitar.

We welcome Michael Anthony to the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame class of 2023.

Amazing Musician, Amazing Career, Amazing Person, this is a really good way to describe this New Mexico Musician. His story is really one of two parts, his Hollywood California Music Life and his New Mexico Music Life.

Let me explain, originally from the greater New York City Area, at age eleven Michael was gifted a chromatic harmonica for Christmas and his father also got one. He recalls that he and his Father would compete on who could learn more songs they heard on the radio. At age fourteen, the family made a move to Southern California in the San Fernando Valley. By now, Michael’s music choices began to mature and he began to listen to guitar players like Bo Diddly, Les Paul and Andre Segovia. Soon after that he asked his parents if he could take guitar lessons, as it turned out one afternoon his father showed up with a guitar, and so the rest is history.

Michael Credits his rapid success to his mentors, musicians like Jimmy Wybel, Howard Roberts, Joe Pass and Tommy Tedesco who were super guitar players themselves. Their resumes read like the who’s who of Elite Hollywood Musicians. From the 60’s thru the 80’s Michael worked as a studio musician in Hollywood but always working on his personal recording projects as well. He worked with countless jazz artists at the caliber of Miles Davis during this time.

He also worked on TV shows like Dukes of Hazard, Knots Landing, The Brady Bunch, Dean Martin, Barbara Streisand, Lavern & Shirley and many more, He was a member of the Hanna Barbara Group Music Team, also worked with Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, and a member of what he calls the second-generation Wrecking Crew with Glen Campbell. I think you get the picture, His Hollywood Life.

While working on the Carol Burnett show came the beginning of his soon to be New Mexico Life as he met his wife who was a member of the Dance team, Cathy Fishback, yes of the legendary Fishback Dance Studio in Albuquerque. Around 1980, the move to New Mexico followed. So, he began his private instruction programs and soon became a staff member with the Music Department at University of New Mexico. Well, it didn’t take long for the music community in Albuquerque to realize the magnitude and music knowledge Michael Anthony possessed.

Invitations to perform quickly became plentiful. In the 40 plus years Michael has lived in Albuquerque, he has become an exceptional and highly regarded musician. The people that know him all say the same thing, that he’s a down to earth person and very positive.
I guess Hollywood’s loss is New Mexico’s gain.

2014 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

Lifetime Achievement Award

2014 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

Best Instrumental Performance for "It's Alright With Me" off the "First Take Trio" CD...

  • Publisher: Lone Guitar Publishing
  • Engineer: Sid Fendley
  • Studio: Mountain Road Recording, Albuquerque, NM

New Mexico Music Awards: http://www.newmexicomusicawards.com/index.htm 


2014 NMMIA Award Presentation
"I'm honored and humbled to receive the Lifetime Achievement and Best Instrumental Performance (for Cole Porter's It's Alright With Me) awards from the New Mexico Music Awards."

2009 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

Best Instrumental Performance for "Tune Up" (Track 8) off the "The Sands of Time" CD...

  • Publisher: Lone Guitar Publishing
  • Engineer: Sid Fendley
  • Studio: Mountain Road Recording, Albuquerque, NM

New Mexico Music Awards: http://www.newmexicomusicawards.com/index.htm 

2008 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

Best Instrumental Performance for "Avalon" (Track 5) off the "Nostalgia" CD...

  • Writers: De Sylva, Jolson, Rose
  • Publisher: Lone Guitar Publishing
  • Engineer: Sid Fendley
  • Studio: Mountain Road Recording, Albuquerque, NM

Best Packaging Design for the "Nostalgia" CD...

  • By Richard Kilmer of Kilmer & Kilmer, Albuquerque, NM

2005 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

New Journey wins...

  • Album of the Year
  • Best Arrangement - Original Composition for: "Detours"
  • Best Musical Production - Jazz for: "Detours"

2004 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

  • Congrats to Michael and Arlen Asher for their win in the "Best Production of an Original Jazz Tune" category at the 2004 NMMIA MIC Awards!
  • The song that won is entitled "Spring Samba", and is available on Arlen Asher's Another Spring CD.

2001 New Mexico Music Industry Awards 

Natural Instincts wins...

  • Album of the Year
  • Best Instrumental Performance for "The Breeze and I"
  • Best Jazz Production for "One For Joe"
  • Best Engineering -- Sid Fendley for "The Breeze and I"
  • Best CD Design -- Dan Gotto