Stephen Bland was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1962 to Shirley and Walter Bland. Stephen is the middle child in the family, he has 2 older sisters and 2 younger brothers. Stephen was educated at Queen Elizabeth High School and attended college at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He has been studying music off and on for years.

In 1995, Stephen was in a severe accident and was thrown through a windshield of a car while walking down the street, which left him bedridden for a month. Stephen considered this a life changing event as the accident changed his life dramatically. To get through this crisis Stephen pulled his banjo out of the closet for therapy, this was a foreshadowing of his book writing career and love of music.

In 1996, he met his mentors. Alan Munde and Joe Carr, who are teachers at South Plains College and they recommended their College, as a good school for learning commercial music. After this second life changing event he decided to see how far he could go with this 5-string banjo.

Four years later Stephen is perfecting his banjo technique, and learning the stand-up bass at one of the foremost commercial music programs in the United States. He is working towards his twentieth book and owns a construction company out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he currently resides with his daughter Stephanie, who he feels she is his greatest accomplishment.

Stephen Bland P.O. Box 1335 Main Post Office
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 2N2