There are guitar players, and then there are guitar players. Fareed Haque is of the later category, a virtuoso. Fareed enjoys a career that spans the spectrum of musical styles. Moving easily between rock, jazz, and classical guitar, Fareed's versatility has created a demand for him with prominent jazz, classical, and jamband artists including Sting, Dizzy Gillespie, Paquito D'Rivera, Tony Williams, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Lester Bowie, Javon Jackson, Kurt Elling, Nigel Kennedy, Edgar Meyer, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, and the Slip, among others.

Fareed has busted onto the jamband scene with a fury, tearing up venues all over the country, both with Garaj Mahal (a newer ensemble of which he is prominently featured), and with his older, more established ensemble, the Fareed Haque Group. Fareed’s depth travels far beyond his guitar playing. He is a tenured professor, a husband, a father, and to say that he kills it on the six-string, would be an immense understatement: he plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, the sitar, transcribes classical music, and even plays a hybrid guitar/sitar.

Since April of 2000 he has made serious ground as a member of the group Garaj Mahal, which has caused quite a stir in the jamband community. And now he has re-routed the direction of his own ensemble to also embrace the jamband spirit. The Fareed Haque Group, now equipped with a DJ and a tabla player, has been described as a "tantric meditation."