Fretted Buffalo to Present France's Guitar Master Pierre Bensusan Concert & Workshop This Month

Pierre Bensusan's 2020 North American tour was in full swing when the pandemic shut it down causing him to return home to France. He's making up for lost time with an extensive North American tour that will bring him back to Buffalo in concert at Trinity Episcopal Church on October 12th at 7pm. The preceding day he will be teaching a workshop for intermediate to advanced guitarists at The Fretted Buffalo.

Bensusan has, throughout his career and a string of recordings, confirmed his place as an acoustic visionary who combines sensibility with shadings of ethereal jazz, latin, celtic, pop, world music and classical melodies; free and fusion styles. Born in 1957 in French Algeria, Bensusan released his debut album Près de Paris in 1975 at the age of 17. It won Le Grand Prix du Disque at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland (1976). More albums and extensive touring followed, as well as a recording contract with Columbia in the US. This artist has earned his stripes: more recently 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. Over the course of his career, he has sold half a million albums and given thousands of concerts around the globe, both solo and through numerous collaborations.

Guitarists from Leo Kottke to Larry Corryel, to Tuck Andress, Tommy Emmanuel, Mark Knopfler, Andrew York, Andy Timmons, to Steve Lukather... have sung his praises, and rock guitar icon 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.

Much more at: http://www.pierrebensusan.com.

The CONCERT: Wed Oct 12 at 7pm

in The Chapel, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave in Downtown Buffalo Tickets: $25 in advance /$30 at the doorOrder Tickets at: https://www.pierrebensusan.com/store_viewproduct.asp?ID=588 Info josefferri@hotmail.com

THE WORKSHOP: Tues Oct 11 From 6:3O until 9:30 pm

at The Fretted Buffalo https://www.thefrettedbuffalo.com/
466 Amherst Street, Buffalo
Price: $90 for a three hour intensive master class
Registration in advance at: https://www.pierrebensusan.com/store_viewproduct.asp?ID=626
Info (716) 913-6487 bill@thefrettedbuffalo.com

Says Bensusan of this tour:

"Even if I loved staying at my home, near Paris, for two years; playing, writing, taking the time, stopping running, sometimes locked down in Heaven... I felt a real relief to be able to play live again. The first part of my North American tour, this Spring, left me with an immense feeling of gratitude for the public who came to the concerts. There is nothing stronger than getting together around the music played live, especially when many were walking into a concert hall for the first time in two years.

Also, in Las Vegas, I met my new friend, Donny Osmond, after playing on his last album and there was a lot of emotion.

After spending the last three months (before this tour) back in France, I am pulling out all of the stops and embarking on the second leg of a mega-tour with over 60 concerts and guitar workshops that will take my stage manager/sound engineer, Xaina Lerner, and myself through the entire northern part of the USA and southern Canada, from the West Coast to the East Coast.

I look forward to finally seeing you again and thank you warmly for your continuous support and all of the inspiration, light and strength you give me."