Ryan Cook - Acoustic Guitarist / Vocalist | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Show Description

From the very beginning of the process Ryan is friendly, honest and professional. With years of experience, an extensive song list and intuitive feel for the space Ryan's performance will not disappoint. With a deep-love for a wide range of musical genres (new and old) Ryan will come across to those attending like he really wants to be there and that everyone should join him in feeling great!
At points, you may wonder if it is just Ryan up there or a small band. Since Ryan has worked at playing as a solo musician for a while now, he has incorporated (among other things) percussion, whistli ... ng, and looping the rhythm guitar so he can play a lead in addition to it.
Hands on/Hands off… depends on your preference... Planning your event with Ryan will likely leave you feeling confident that this is going to be just the kind of experience you created in your imagination to sure that this is the right place for you to completely delegate this responsibility.
Specialty services include:
- Ryan plays well and often as a duo. This will usually consist of Ryan asking a female vocalist to join him for a portion or the entire event. The harmonies are truly beautiful and can really add something special to the experience.
- A small band is possible
- DJ- many events can include hiring a musician and/or a DJ which can be a headache. Well… hire Ryan and he can do both! Read More

Set-List

I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
AEROSMITH
A Million Years
ALEXANDER
Truth
ALEXANDER
Wake Me Up
ALOE BLACC
Arms of a Woman
AMOS LEE
Sweet Pea
AMOS LEE
Keep it Loose Keep it Tight
AMOS LEE
City Of New Orleans
ARLO GUTHRIE
The Weight
THE BAND
It Makes No Difference
THE BAND
Unfaithful Servant
THE BAND
God Only Knows
BEACH BOYS
Hey Jude
THE BEATLES
Lucy In The Sky With Daimonds
THE BEATLES
Till There Was You
THE BEATLES
A Day In A Life
THE BEATLES
From Me To You
THE BEATLES
All You Need Is Love
THE BEATLES
In My Life
THE BEATLES
All My Loving
THE BEATLES
Don't ... Let Me Down
THE BEATLES
Something
THE BEATLES
Real Love
THE BEATLES
Here Comes The Sun
THE BEATLES
Blackbird
THE BEATLES
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
THE BEATLES
Rocky Racoon
THE BEATLES
I Will
THE BEATLES
Yesterday
THE BEATLES
I've Just Seen A Face
THE BEATLES
With A Little Help From My Friends
THE BEATLES
Across The Universe
THE BEATLES
For No One
THE BEATLES
The Riptide
BEIRUT
Luckiest
BEN FOLDS
Forever
BEN HARPER
Steal My Kisses
BEN HARPER
With My Own Two Hands
BEN HARPER
Keep Your Head Up
BEN HOWARD
Box Of Stones
BENJAMIN LEFTWICH
Thirteen
BIG STAR
Ain't No Sunshine
BILL WITHERS
Use Me
BILL WITHERS
New York State Of Mind
BILLY JOEL
Just The Way You Are
BILLY JOEL
The Longest Time
BILLY JOEL
Only The Good Die Young
BILLY JOEL
Little Black Submarines
THE BLACK KEYS
God Gave Me You
BLAKE SHELTON
All the Small Things
BLINK 182
Gotta Serve Somebody
BOB DYLAN
Tangled Up in Blue
BOB DYLAN
Make You Feel My Love
BOB DYLAN
If Not For You
BOB DYLAN
Mama, You Been On My Mind
BOB DYLAN
Forever Young
BOB DYLAN
Mr. Tambourine Man
BOB DYLAN
Roll On John
BOB DYLAN
Don't Think Twice Its All Right
BOB DYLAN
Three Little Birds
BOB MARLEY
No Woman No Cry
BOB MARLEY
Stir It Up
BOB MARLEY
Buffalo Soldier
BOB MARLEY
One Love/People Get Ready
BOB MARLEY
Wait in Vain
BOB MARLEY
Captain Kirk
BOB SCHNEIDER
Don't Worry, Be Happy
BOBBY MCFERRIN
Skinny Love
BON IVER
Stacks
BON IVER
Blood Bank
BON IVER
I Can't Make You Love Me
BONNIE RAITT
First Day Of My Life
BRIGHT EYES
Thunder Road
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
My City of Ruins
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Dancing In The Dark
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Marry You
BRUNO MARS
Just The Way You Are
BRUNO MARS
Glycerine
BUSH
Stickshifts & Safetybelts
CAKE
Father & Son
CAT STEVENS
The Wind
CAT STEVENS
Wild World
CAT STEVENS
Traveller
CHRIS STAPLETON
Nobody To Blame
CHRIS STAPLETON
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
CHRIS THILE & MICHAEL DAVES
Tennessee Whiskey
CHRIST STAPLETON
Johnny B. Goode
CHUCK BERRY
Arrival Of The Birds
CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC
From This Valley
CIVIL WARS
Poison and Wine
CIVIL WARS
I've Got This Friend
CIVIL WARS
In My Place
COLDPLAY
The Scientist
COLDPLAY
Til Kingdom Come
COLDPLAY
Adventure Of A Lifetime
COLDPLAY
Fix You
COLDPLAY
Yellow
COLDPLAY
Something Just Like This
COLDPLAY
Magic
COLDPLAY
Beautiful World
COLIN HAY
Hanginaround
COUNTING CROWS
Proud Mary
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Who'll Stop the Rain?
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Helplessly Hoping
CROSBY STILLS & NASH
Southern Cross
CROSBY STILLS & NASH
Our House
CROSBY STILLS & NASH
Time After Time
CYNDI LAUPER
Cannonball
DAMIEN RICE
Older Chests
DAMIEN RICE
Coconut Skins
DAMIEN RICE
From The Ground Up
DAN + SHAY
Satellite
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
You & Me
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Crash Into Me
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Babylon
DAVID GRAY
I Will Follow You Into The Dark
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
Romeo And Juliet
DIRE STRAITS
Oo De Lally (Robin Hood)
DISNEY
I Wanna Be Like You
DISNEY (JUNGLE BOOK)
Beauty And The Beast
DISNEY- ANGELA LANDSBURY
Out Loud
DISPATCH
Two Coins
DISPATCH
The General
DISPATCH
Cowboy Take Me Away
DIXIE CHICKS
Wide Open Spaces
DIXIE CHICKS
Catch The Wind
DONOVAN
Light My Fire
THE DOORS
Peaceful Easy Feeling
THE EAGLES
Galway Girl
ED SHEERAN
Thinking Out Loud
ED SHEERAN
Home
EDWARD SHAPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Dear Believer
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
That's What's Up
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Brother
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
All Wash Out
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
If I Were Free
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Come In Please
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Free Stuff
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Between The Bars
ELLIOT SMITH
Your Song
ELTON JOHN
I Can't Help Falling In Love
ELVIS PRESLEY
Gabriels Oboe
ENNIO MORRICONE
Wonderful Tonight
ERIC CLAPTON
Old Love
ERIC CLAPTON
Long Time Gone
EVERLY BROTHERS
Mushaboom
FEIST
If I Had A Heart
FEVER RAY
Emmylou
FIRST AID KIT
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
FLEET FOXES
Dreams
FLEETWOOD MAC
Gypsy
FLEETWOOD MAC
Landslide
FLEETWOOD MAC
Big Love
FLEETWOOD MAC
Go Your Own Way
FLEETWOOD MAC
Most Beautiful Girl In The Room
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
Handlebars
FLOBOTS
Pumped Up Kicks
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
Follow Me, Follow You
GENESIS
Give Me Love
GEORGE HARRISON
Run Of The Mill
GEORGE HARRISON
What Is Life
GEORGE HARRISON
My Sweet Lord
GEORGE HARRISON
Faith
GEORGE MICHAEL
Look At Miss Ohio
GILLIAN WELCH
Falling Slowly
GLEN HANSARD
Crazy
GNARLS BARKLEY
Come To Me
THE GOO GOO DOLLS
Better Weather
GOOD OLD WAR
Friend Of The Devil
GRATEFUL DEAD
Touch Of Grey
GRATEFUL DEAD
Ripple
GRATEFUL DEAD
Scarlet Begonias
GRATEFUL DEAD
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
GREEN DAY
Demons
GUSTER
She's Gone
HALL AND OATS
Cats in the Cradle
HARRY CHAPIN
All We Ever Knew
HEAD AND THE HEART
Lost in My Mind
HEAD AND THE HEART
Down In The Valley
HEAD AND THE HEART
Someone New
HOZIER
Take Me To Church
HOZIER
On Top Of The World
IMAGINE DRAGONS
Closer To Fine
INDIGO GIRLS
Parting Glass
IRISH TRADITIONAL
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/ What A Wonderful World
IZ
Flake
JACK JOHNSON
Better Together
JACK JOHNSON
I Got You
JACK JOHNSON
Angel
JACK JOHNSON
Rodeo Clowns
JACK JOHNSON
Something In The Way She Moves
JAMES TAYLOR
Carolina In My Mind
JAMES TAYLOR
You Can Close Your Eyes
JAMES TAYLOR
Sweet Baby James
JAMES TAYLOR
I Won't Give Up
JASON MRAZ
Lucky (Feat. Colbie Caillat)
JASON MRAZ
I'm Yours
JASON MRAZ
You Were Meant For Me
JEWEL
Little Wing
JIMI HENDRIX
Come Monday
JIMMY BUFFET
Margaritaville
JIMMY BUFFET
Pachelbel's Cannon (Solo Guitar)
JOHANN PACHELBEL
Cello Suite Prelude In D (Solo Guitar)
JOHANN SABASTIAN BACH
Take Me Home, Country Roads
JOHN DENVER
All Of Me
JOHN LEGEND
Imagine
JOHN LENNON
Stand By Me
JOHN LENNON
Woman
JOHN LENNON
Waiting on the World to Change
JOHN MAYER
Gravity
JOHN MAYER
Stop This Train
JOHN MAYER
Love Is A Verb
JOHN MAYER
Who Says
JOHN MAYER
Man on the Side
JOHN MAYER
Heart of Life
JOHN MAYER
Belief
JOHN MAYER
3 by 5
JOHN MAYER
In Your Atmosphere
JOHN MAYER
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
JOHN MAYER
Ring Of Fire
JOHNNY CASH
A Boy Named Sue
JOHNNY CASH
It Ain't Me Babe
JOHNNY CASH/BOB DYLAN
River
JONI MITCHELL
Genesis
JORMA KOUKONEN
Only you
JOSHUA RADIN
If Ever I Could Love
KEITH URBAN
Sweet Thing
KEITH URBAN
Dancing In The Moonlight
KING HARVEST
A Love Never Known
LEAHY
Hey Thats No Way To Say Goodbye
LEONARD COHEN
Hallelujah
LEONARD COHEN
Happy People
LITTLE BIG TOWN
Ends of the Earth
LORD HURON
Christmas Songs
LOTS OF EM'
Daughter
LOUDEN WAINWRIGHT III
What A Wonderful World
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
7 Years
LUKAS GRAHAM
Drink A Beer
LUKE BRYAN
Stubborn Love
LUMINEERS
Ho Hey
THE LUMINEERS
Big Parade
LUMINEERS
Sweet Home Alabama
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
This Love
MAROON 5
Payphone
MAROON 5
Heard It Through The Grapevine
MARVIN GAYE
One Day
MATISYAHU
I'm Getting Ready
MICHAEL KIWANUKA
Winter Winds
MUMFORD AND SONS
Lover of the Light
MUMFORD AND SONS
The Cave
MUMFORD AND SONS
Roll Away Your Stone
MUMFORD AND SONS
Little Lion Man
MUMFORD AND SONS
White Blank Page
MUMFORD AND SONS
Madness
MUSE
One Big Holiday
MY MORNING JACKET
Harvest Moon
NEIL YOUNG
Heart of Gold
NEIL YOUNG
Down On The Bottom
NEW BASEMENT TAPES
This Side
NICKEL CREEK
When You Come Back Down
NICKEL CREEK
Don't Know Why
NORAH JONES
Don't Look Back in Anger
OASIS
Wagon Wheel
OLD CROW MEDECINE SHOW
Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
OTIS REDDING
Let Her Go
PASSENGER
Hearts On Fire
PASSENGER
You Were Always The One
PATRICK PARK
Maybe I'm Amazed
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Still Crazy After All of These Years
PAUL SIMON
American Tune
PAUL SIMON
Graceland
PAUL SIMON
Me And Julio Down By The School Yard
PAUL SIMON
Under African Skies
PAUL SIMON
Hearts and Bones
PAUL SIMON
Yellow Ledbetter
PEARL JAM
Just Breathe
PEARL JAM
Alive
PEARL JAM
Blood of Eden
PETER GABRIEL
Mercy Street
PETER GABRIEL
Wedding Song
PETER, PAUL, AND MARY
Happy
PHARRELL WILLIAMS
Gone Gone Gone
PHILLIP PHILLIPS
Home
PHILLIP PHILLIPS
Fairytale Of New York
THE POGUES
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
THE PROCLAIMERS
A Whiter Shade Of Pale
PROCOL HARUM
My Best Friend
QUEEN
Night Swimming
R.E.M
You've Got A Friend In Me (From Toy Story)
RANDY NEWMAN
My Wish
RASCAL FLATTS
I Like The Sound Of That
RASCAL FLATTS
You Are The Best Thing
RAY LAMONTAGNE
Jolene
RAY LAMONTAGNE
Us
REGINA SPEKTOR
Forever Young
ROD STEWART
Wild Horses
ROLLING STONES
For Sephora
ROSENBERG TRIO
Yours
RUSSELL DICKERSON
Lost Boy
RUTH B.
To Be Without You
RYAN ADAMS
Oh My Sweet Carolina
RYAN ADAMS
Lucky Now
RYAN ADAMS
Chilly Night
RYAN COOK
Bring It On Home To Me
SAM COOKE
I Choose You
SARA BAREILLES
New Slang
THE SHINS
The 58th Street Bridge Song
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Mrs. Robinson
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
The Boxer
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
The Only Living Boy In New York
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Kiss Me
SIX PENCE NONE THE RICHER
Chasing Cars
SNOW PATROL
I Got You Babe
SONNY AND CHER
Edelweiss
SOUND OF MUSIC
Highland Wedding (Solo Guitar)
STEVE MORSE
Mary Had A Little Lamb
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
Lenny
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
STEVIE WONDER
I Believe
STEVIE WONDER
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered (I'm Yours)
STEVIE WONDER
Isn't She Lovely
STEVIE WONDER
Fields Of Gold
STING
Love Is The 7th Wave
STING
Badfish
SUBLIME
What I Got
SUBLIME
Love Is All
TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
Leading Me Now
TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
Semi Charmed Life
THIRD EYE BLIND
Die A Happy Man
THOMAS RHETT
My Best Friend
TIM MCGRAW
Peace Will Come
TOM PAXTON
Free Fallin'
TOM PETTY
Mary Jane's Last Dance
TOM PETTY
Wildflowers
TOM PETTY
American Girl
TOM PETTY
I Won't Back Down
TOM PETTY
San Diego Serenade
TOM WAITS
Ol' 55
TOM WAITS
Jersey Girl
TOM WAITS
If I Needed You
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Give Me One Reason
TRACY CHAPMAN
Marry Me
TRAIN
One
U2
Red Red Wine
UB40
Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
UNKNOWN (SCOTTISH FOLK SONG)
Into The Mystic
VAN MORRISON
Crazy Love
VAN MORRISON
Brown Eyed Girl
VAN MORRISON
Tupelo Honey
VAN MORRISON
Moondance
VAN MORRISON
Have I Told You Lately
VAN MORRISON
Mess Is Mine
VANCE JOY
Riptide
VANCE JOY
Gotta Have You
WEEPIES
Island In The Sun
WEEZER
Pinball Wizard
THE WHO
What Light
WILCO
All Of Me
WILLIE NELSON
Luckiest Man
WOOD BROTHERS
Messages
XAVIER RUDD
Homegrown
ZAC BROWN BAND
Whatever It Is
ZAC BROWN BAND
Knee Deep
ZAC BROWN BAND
Toes
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Biography

Hi, my name is Ryan Cook. Music is my superpower ????
I learned to play guitar first year of college and was in a band THAT year. So, from the very start it’s been intertwined with performances, more than I could count. I learned to sing a couple years later. 10 years later… it’s my profession and I cannot be happier about it!
Its unreal how personal singing really is! To share the positive vibes of live performance with you is my greatest joy. Its uncanny how sharing music creates fast friends of your audience, especially those I work with to make it happen from the start. I canno ... t wait to meet you and create a personalized experience for your weddings and parties!
What I do:
I perform at Weddings, and any event you might imagine there being a live performance.
I can and often play solo. For some, this is important detail. Keeping it simple is good for $$.
One thing that differentiates me is that I do my best to provide the fullest sound possible. That means, I have incorporated a kick bass pedal to get that essential percussion beat. I also use a looper which can record snippets of a song, like a chord progression that I can have running on a whim while playing on top of that, whether it be a solo or additional layers. Occasionally, I will break out a harmonica or some other instruments in addition.
I am more than happy to play as a part Duo or Trio for special events. I have talented musician friends that are extremely talented. It really can for more fullness, sound and energy. Trade off will be a longer period of time for prep and a larger budget.
DJ services: I would be happy to play recorded tunes for your event with my sound system. This could be easier than hiring a DJ separately.
Here’s to YOU!!! Thank you so much for reading. Lets get in touch!
Love,
Ryan Read More

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Experience

- Have been performing as a Solo Musician
- Played in a Beatles Tribute band
- Played in a Creedence Clearwater Revival Band
- Played in a Blues Band

Suitable for

Bar / Bat Mitzvah Birthday Party (Adult) Casinos Christening Christmas Party Cocktail Party / Drinks Reception Corporate Event Dinner Party Jewish Wedding Private Party Product Launch / Promotion Trade Show / Exhibitions