The Andy Summers Trio performing at the New York Guitar Festival's first Guitar Marathon at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufman Auditorium, January 20, 2002.
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Guitarist, texturalist and composer David Torn talks about his guitars, studio gear, and techniques used on his latest ECM release, Prezens www.davidtorn.net www.ecmrecords.com
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Guitarist, texturalist and composer David Torn talks about Prezens. This new CD marks his return to the ECM label, twenty years after the release of Cloud Over Mercury. Torn has contributed to recordings by artists as diverse as David Bowie, Jeff Beck, kd lang, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tori Amos, and John Legend. Very much in demand in Hollywood, his music is featured in The Big Lebowski, Traffic, Friday Night Lights, The Order, March of the Penguins, and numerous other feature films. www.davidtorn.net www.ecmrecords.com
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The American Beauty Project honored the Grateful Dead's Dead's two 1970 albums, American Beauty and Workingman's Dead with two free gala concerts under the glass atrium of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, Saturday, January 20, and Sunday, January 21. Performing their own arrangements of the American Beauty and Workingman's Dead songs, were Jorma Kaukonen, Toshi Reagon, Ollabelle, The Holmes Brothers, Dar Williams, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Tim O'Reagan (The Jayhawks), Jen Chapin, Catherine Russell, Larry Campbell, Espers, Catherine Russell, The Klezmatics, Jim Lauderdale, and many others.
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Having asked the question "Who was, or is, the greatest guitarist of all time?" Tim Brookes has a change of heart and wonders if it's even a good idea to think in such terms... Tim Brookes has written books on asthma, hospice, hitchhiking, SARS, and life on a dirt road in Vermont. His most recent book is Guitar: An American Life, was published by Grove Atlantic Press. But he would give it all up in a flash in order to be able to play Limehouse Blues like Django Reinhardt.
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Guitarist, texturalist and composer David Torn discusses Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. www.davidtorn.net www.ecmrecords.com
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Yamandu Costa and Celso Machado jamming backstage at the New York Guitar Festival's fourth biennial Guitar Marathon at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufman Auditorium, January 27, 2008. This concert was Yamandu's first ever performance in New York. Odair Assad is sitting in the chair, and his brother Sergio walks into the room at one point. WNYC's John Scheafer, guitarist Fabio Zanon, intern Ally Dreyer and production manager Nathan Scalzone are looking on.
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Surprise guest Leven Helm joined Larry Campbell & Friends at their free concert at the 2008 New York Guitar Festival. The event took place at the Apple Store theater in Soho on January 22nd, 2008. Levon Helm, mandolin and vox Larry Campbell, guitar and harmony vox Teresa Williams, guitar and harmony vox Lincoln Schliefer Video by Sasha Santiago
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The Adelaide Festival Centre, one of the leading performing arts centers in Australia, has launched a spectacular new event, the inaugural Adelaide International Guitar Festival (November 23 -- December 2, 2007). The new ten day festival is inspired and assisted by the New York Guitar Festival. Over 100 musicians from around the world will converge on Adelaide to celebrate the guitar in over 40 guitar-centric events, spanning music genres including jazz, classical, rock, experimental, blues & roots, world, and more. With the State Government of South Australia committed to funding the event for a minimum of four years, it is expected that the Adelaide International Guitar Festival will soon become an important and permanent fixture in Australia's music events calendar. "Encompassing major outdoor concerts, small intimate performances in theatres, masterclasses, forums, films and exhibitions the Adelaide International Guitar Festival promises to become a major event in Australia's arts calendar," says The Hon John Hill, Minister Assisting in the Arts. "As part of the plan to make the Adelaide Festival Centre the nation's most innovative arts hub we are delighted to present the first Adelaide International Guitar Festival ", says Douglas Gautier, CEO of the Adelaide Festival Centre. "Our players come from across the US, Europe, South America, India, West Africa and Australia. Of course, telling the guitar's fascinating story in ten days is a little like visiting Australia ...
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Tim Brookes, author of Guitar: An American Life, poses the question on every guitar fan's mind. Who was, or is, the greatest guitarist of all time? Or can that question really be answered in a meaningful and thoughtful way? Inquiring minds want to know...
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