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Stoneyport Associates are very pleased to offer this very high-quality touring concert show from the USA, for its first UK visit from Thursday 27 September to Saturday 13 October 2007 (inc).
The International Guitar Night tours have been described as, "North America's premier mobile guitar festival", and have attracted a fabulous array of guitarists (including the UK's Martin Taylor and France's Pierre Bensusan) producing moments of individual brilliance and unique collaborations, as musicans from different cultures rise to the challenge of finding common ground. There is a spirit of personal and musical camaraderie that has become a hallmark of International Guitar Night.
The International Guitar Night's intention is to bring together some of the world's foremost acoustic guitar players to perform their latest original compositions and exchange musical ideas in a public concert setting. Each season a new cast of guitar luminaries from the United States, Europe and elsewhere performs solos, duets and quartets to highlight the virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar.
To that end, the guitarists in the show which is slated to tour in the UK will be Peppino D'Agostino, from Italy originally and now living in the USA, Andrew White from New Zealand although born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Montreal-based newcomer Antoine DuFour and Brian Gore, from San Francisco who is the tour's founder.
Brian Gore started the show in 1995 from a regular jam in a music commune in the San Francisco Bay area and it has now evolved to be the most successful show of its kind in North America. Each tour now features a live album recording of the solo and collaborative performances in the show on the Warner Canada label.
This is a top-class show, a really great show, highly appropriate for the generality of Theatres and Arts Centres, while being down-to-earth enough for 'folkie' and 'guitar-centric' crowds. Great steel string playing, great on-stage interaction, and all well supported with record distribution, posters, etc. There is a live album released on Pacific Music/Warner Canada.