Friday, October 21, 2011 at The Colony Café, Woodstock, New York
The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase and La Bella Strings present an evening of musical diversity and instrumental virtuosity, the second annual String Sampler Concert, featuring Jazz guitar by Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo Guitar Duo, Ugandan kora by Kinobe & The African Sensation, and fingerstyle guitar by The American Guitar Masters – Larry Pattis & Peter Janson, 8:00 PM, Friday, October 21, 2011 at The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY 12498. Admission $25.00, cash only, at the door.
FRANK VIGNOLA & VINNY RANIOLO
(Presented by La Bella Strings/E. & O. Mari, Inc., Newburgh, NY www.labella.com)
Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, Mark O Connor, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his "Five Most Admired Guitarists List" for the Wall Street Journal. Vignola's jaw-dropping technique explains why the New York Times deemed him "one of the brightest...stars of the guitar".
www.frankvignola.com
Even though his career in music is only at the beginning, Vinny Raniolo has had many opportunities that take most players a lifetime to achieve. At age 27, Vinny has already toured the world and has performed and recorded with many great musicians such as Frank Vignola, Bucky Pizzarelli, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Trishka, Casey Driessen and Matt Flinner to name a few. Vinny is also an educator and has taught guitar for many years privately and through college level master classes.
www.vinnyraniolo.com
KINOBE & THE AFRICAN SENSATION
Born in Uganda, Kinobe is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer steeped in the music of his homeland, with ears and heart open to the pulse of the world ~ Kinobe is a unique artist. Together with his band, The African Sensation, they are the vanguard of Ugandan performers representing the inspired synthesis of African roots and global fusion. Driving polyrhythms underlay transcendent melodies on traditional African instruments – koras, kalimbas, adungus, endongos, balaphon, and percussion – to show, once again, that music is the most beautiful, universal language.
Kinobe is committed to bringing love and joy to people around the world, using music as a voice to create peace, and to champion a better future for children everywhere.
www.kinobemusic.com
AMERICAN GUITAR MASTERS
American Guitar Masters is comprised of Peter Janson and Larry Pattis - two acclaimed American Fingerstyle acoustic guitarists whose solo careers encompass nearly 50 years of performing and recording, and whose sensibilities are very much effected by today’s world. They have numerous recordings to their credit and have performed widely across North America, from large concert stages, to elite clubs, to intimate house concerts. Both are award-winning, critically-acclaimed solo artists, and they have performed together at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and the Healdsburg Guitar Festival.
American Guitar Masters artists Peter Janson and Larry Pattis share a mutual devotion to the heart and soul of guitar music. Their common vision is to bring forth the highest level of emotive qualities of the acoustic guitar; their common goal is to delight the audience with their music.
www.americanguitarmasters.com
www.larrypattis.com
www.peterjanson.com
The String Sampler is the
kick-off concert event for the
2011 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers
Showcase, an alternative guitar show and sale, featuring fine, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments exhibited by their makers, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday October 22 & 23, 2010, at the Bearsville Theater and Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock, NY. All of the String Sampler Concert artists will also be
playing at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase, and Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo will also be teaching an
Instructional Jazz Guitar Workshop at 10:00 AM Sunday Oct. 23.
CONTACT:
Baker Rorick
Woodstock Invitational LLC
Bearsville, NY
845-679-9025
info@woodstockinvitational.com
top
