Hayes Cummings

Originally from the piedmont of North Carolina, Hayes Cummings is a Boston based guitarist, improviser, composer, and educator. He is interested in and inspired by the American styles of jazz, bluegrass, rock and folk music.

Hayes is a composer and arranger for his group, The Still Point, playing jazz and rock-n-roll influenced original compositions. As a sideman, he can be regularly heard performing with The Old North, a New England folk trio, as well as with the band Cordis, of which Billboard Magazine said, “Cordis sets itself apart through sparkling moments that defy classification.”

Hayes is a committed educator who maintains a private studio and is on faculty at Brookline Music School and Dexter Southfield School. He brings unique offerings to his students as he is also a certified Alexander Technique teacher and a student of mind body studies. Hayes holds a bachelors degree in classical guitar performance from Appalachian State University and a masters degree in Jazz and Contemporary studies at Longy School of Music. He trained in the Alexander Technique under Tommy Thompson at the Cambridge Center for Alexander Technique.

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