Ernie Rivas

Musician, Producer, Educator, and Entrepreneur, Ernesto Rivas has been influencing lives through music for over 20 years as a multi-talented performer, songwriter, studio and live engineer, and music instructor. Based out of North Carolina, Ernesto has vast performance experience working with numerous musicians and performance groups over the years, performing throughout the greater Southeastern United States, and as far west as Colorado. A multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger, Ernesto has been featured on a number of recordings, from his self-released EP under the alias The Audio Transport Agency, Home is Never The Home (2006), to performance tracks on releases with Blackpoint’s Let Us Make A Scene (2012), and The Several Devils Chicken Fried Voodoo (2016). Ernesto has interned with multi-award winning engineers Glenn Tabor and Wade Starnes, and guest producer Mark Endert (Madonna, Maroon 5, Fiona Apple), including engineering credit for Chynna Phillips (Wilson Phillips) release, Chynna and Vaughan’s One Reason. Ernesto’s music and composition have been used for promotional video on Film House Inc.’s demo series Pride In Service for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Services. Ernesto received a B.S. in Music Industry Studies from Appalachian State University in 2009, and an M.M. in Music Business and Entertainment Industry from the University of Miami in 2017. Rivas has studied under Serona Elton, Rey Sanchez, John Redmond, and Gary Alan Wood of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music; Dr. Larry Arnold, Jazz studies at UNC Pembroke; Dr. Douglas James and Andy Page at Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music; as well as performed with both UNC Pembroke and App State Jazz ensembles, receiving an award for outstanding musicianship at the University of Northern Colorado at Greely’s International Jazz Festival in 2005. Other university performance groups include UNCP Pep Band, App State Guitar Orchestra, and Methodist University Vocal and Improvisation Scholarship programs. Ernesto is a member of ASCAP, NSAI, and the Audio Engineering Society. Mr. Rivas is currently an independent music instructor at Cape Fear Music Center in Fayetteville, NC, and at Carolina Performing Arts Studio in Cameron, NC. Currently, Ernesto performs throughout North and South Carolina as Buster Jangle, and has independently released 5 singles and an EP. For more information, please visit https://busterjanglemusic.com