CROSSROADS MUSIC PRESENTS
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT, featuring artists from Madagascar, Spain,
England, and California
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Calvary Center for Community and Culture
48th Street and Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT is North America’s premier mobile guitar
festival, featuring the best performing guitar composers from around
the world since 1995. Each tour, founder Brian Gore invites a new cast
of guitar luminaries to join him for special evenings of solos, duets
and quartets that highlight the virtuosity and diversity within the
world of acoustic guitar. For the January/February 2008 U.S. tour,
Brian welcomes D’Gary, renowned World Music guitarist from
Madagascar; Clive Carroll, England’s finest young fingerstyle
guitarist , and Nuevo Flamenco emigré Miguel de la Bastide from Canada
via Trinidad and Spain.
Tickets are $10-20 for the concert and are available at the concert as
well as in advance from Brown Paper tickets (via our website or at
1-800-838-3006) and at House of Our Own Books (3920 Spruce Street).
Brian, D'Gary, Clive, and Miguel will also demonstrate some of their
techniques and discuss their work in a workshop at Calvary at 10:30
Saturday morning. Tuition is $10 with concert admission and you can
bring your guitar or come sit in the back and listen. Space is
limited, so please call 215-729-1028 or register at the concert.
(After 11:00 pm on Friday, our voicemail message will indicate if
there is space left).
For more information and upcoming concerts: http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org
MIGUEL DE LA BASTIDE has studied flamenco for more than 25 years and
is one of only a few guitarists born outside of Spain who have
mastered the style. He possesses a rare combination of explosive
technique with a unique sensitivity to the flamenco dance and song.
Miguel’s mastery of the guitar, and of the art form, is evident from
the first note played through to the last. Lightning fast runs,
flawless timing, striking melodies and unique arrangements, all
combine to take flamenco to another level. A native of San Fernando,
Trinidad and he studied in Canada and Spain before joining forces with
Carmen Romero as Music Director for Canada’s premier flamenco
company, The Candela Flamenca Dance and Music Ensemble. He is the
first flamenco guitarist to be invited on staff at The Royal
Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the only North American to be
featured with some of Spain’s most respected flamenco guitarists on
the Narada compilation "Flamenco Fire and Grace." His much-anticipated
second solo album, "Siento," is a completely original work that sets
new standards in composition, performance and production. Miguel’s
music has also been used for television commercials in Spain and in
the television series "Queen of Swords. "
For music samples and photos: http://www.guitar9.com/siento.html
Acoustic Guitar Magazine recently described CLIVE CARROLL as “ the
best and most original young acoustic guitar player and composer in
Britain” Born to accordian player and singer mother and boddhran and
banjo player father, he has been immersed in a diverse range of music
all his life. By the age of ten, he was performing regularly with his
family band, and as a soloist. In 1998, he received a 1st Class
Honours degree in Classical Guitar & Composition from Trinity College
of Music, London. Clive’s debut solo album was released in 1999 under
the Old Bridge Music record label and has been lauded by John
Renbourn, John Williams and Christy Moore amongst others. He has
toured most recently with John Renbourn, Tommy Emmanuel, and Bill
Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, and in 2004 was included in Total Guitar
Magazine’s "Top 10 Acoustic Guitarists of all Time."
For music samples and photos: http://www.clivecarroll.co.uk/
Ernest Randriana, better known to Madagascan music fans as D’GARY,
was born in the Madagascan capital, Antananarivo, on October 22,1961.
He is a descendent of the Bara tribe, a nomadic people who
traditionally made their living herding oxen across the plains of the
central south and according to David Lindley (the producer of the
seminal Malagasy album "A World Out Of Time," a "monster guitarist."
D’Gary’s style is disconcerting to say the least: listen closely to
his music and you’ll swear there must be at least two guitarists
playing. This illusion stems from his innovative use of alternate
tunings based in traditional Malagasy tsapiky music rather than the
major or modal chords typical of North American open tuning. Some
critics have argued that this unique technique attempts to reproduce
the sound of the marovany (the traditional Madagascan frame box
zither), but his guitar actually sounds more like the lokanga, a
traditional violin which plays a major role in the Bara’s burial
ceremonies.
For music samples and photos:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1016747/a/Malagasy+Guitar%2FMusic+From+Madagascar.htm
IGN director BRIAN GORE is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the
most interesting and influential younger performers in fingerstyle
guitar. His lyrical, understated compositions integrate classical and
percussive techniques that display what the Los Angeles Times calls "a
characterful bounce and spaciousness all his own," offering strikingly
beautiful tone and dynamics– qualities that are often hard to find in
steel string players and rely heavily on the use of open tunings. Gore
is an artist in residence at the Boulder Chautauqua. His music has
been featured on NPR’s nationally syndicated Echoes Radio and many
other public radio programs. Brian founded The International Guitar
Night in 1995 as a forum for the world’s finest guitarists/composers
to play their latest original songs and share musical ideas with their
peers in public concert. This has evolved into six critically
acclaimed annual U.S. tours, a CD on Favored Nations Records released
in 2004, and a book of IGN compositions scheduled for 2005 release.
For music samples and photos: http://www.guitarpoet.com/
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