Pierre Bensusan
"One Guitar, One Voice" 50th anniversary
Tickets $35 in advance
Doors 6PM
Music 7PM
PIERRE BENSUSAN
50 th ANNIVERSARY
ONE GUITAR – ONE VOICE
“It’s Like The Guitar Has Been Given Free Reign To Play Itself!”
After releasing ‘Azwan’, an album about our oneness and
interconnectivity in the midst of a unifying global crisis, French-Algerian
guitarist, vocalist and composer, Pierre Bensusan is celebrating the 50 th
anniversary of his career.
When Michael Hedges titles one of his compositions “Bensusan”, you
know that the inspiration behind it must be special and Pierre Bensusan
certainly is. Guitarists from Leo Kottke to Larry Corryel, to Tuck Andress,
Tommy Emmanuel, Mark Knopfler, Julian Lage, Andrew York, Andy
Timmons, to Steve Lukather… have sung his praises, and Steve Vai
released three Bensusan albums on his label Favored Nations. And it's
not just guitarists who are so inspired by Pierre's music, as a
recent studio collaboration with him on Donny Osmond’s latest album
“Start Again” goes to show.
If World Music means the fusion of traditional, contemporary, jazz,
classical and pop music, then Bensusan is one of the most eloquent
World Music musicians of our time. A pianist in his beginnings then self-
taught on the guitar, the originality of his style makes him one of today’s
greatest guitarists and composers for the instrument. Also called “The
Prince of DADGAD”, his story is far from trivial and it is on stage that this
artist has earned his stripes: among others, the Rose d'Or of the
Montreux Festival, and being elected Best Guitarist of World Music by
the readers of Guitar Player Magazine! His triple album "Encore" won the
Grand Prix of the Independent Music Awards in the category Best Live
Album... Since his first performances in 1974 in France, the guitarist has
sold half a million albums and given thousands of concerts around the
globe, both solo and through numerous collaborations.
Pierre Bensusan is an adventurer of unusual lands. His almost “sacred”
music is an intimate and orchestral hymn, a solo crossing on a multi-shell
Lowden guitar subjected to the natural elements with sound molecules
and finger pulp on an ebony fingerboard for open tuning - an unique and
transparent technique, under the fingers of an adventurous pilgrim.
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