Brett Wilfrid

Guitar

Brett grew up in New Jersey, and after rebelling with piano and persevering through the saxophone in middle school, was told "No!" by his parents when he said he wanted to learn guitar. 

He borrowed a friend's axe and taught himself to play by playing along with the radio and cassette tapes; Otis Redding was a big early influence, and the dream of playing in a band with a horn section has always endured.  

Since then, he's studied in Maine at Colby College, in England at Oxford University, lived for 2 summers in Norway as a waiter and bouncer in a bar, spent over two years in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer, and has since made his way through the public school ranks to be an elementary school principal for the last 17 years.  

He also plays with The N'achos (a 4-piece, harmony-driven danceable cover rock band who was the "warm-up band" for Coldplay in the summer of '25), The Whiskey Farm (a folk-Americana band from Madison with multiple Madison Area Music Awards (MAMA's) and 5 albums, who played at the Mellon Auditorium in DC, right across from the Museum of African American History & Culture and Washington Monument after donating their song "You Are Welcome Here" to Refugees International), The Grateful Dads (a handful of bandmates who play at one very special pool in Madison each year), and more.