Dean Harrington earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the U of MN and was a first prize winner in the Schubert Club student scholarship competition. For the last two decades he has been performing music with his own band Mill City Hot Club and other local groups playing swing, gypsy jazz, tango, New Orleans jazz and more. He has been a guitar teacher for over 25 years at K & S Conservatory of Music, the Music Lab in Minneapolis, and Mount Olivet School of Music in Edina.