Seattle Welcomes Back French Guitar Master Pierre Bensusan
The performance is on Wednesday, May 11th at 7:30pm.
By: Stephi Wild May. 11, 2022
On Wednesday, May 11th at 7:30pm, Seattle welcomes back French acoustic guitar virtuoso Pierre Bensusan at The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle. Tickets are $22 advance /$25 at door and may be ordered online at: https://theroyalroomseattle.com/event/pierre-bensusan/?instance_id=3832 Phone: (206) 906 9920
As well, on Thurs May 12, 6:30 - 9:30 pm Pierre will teach a Guitar Workshop, Co-sponsored by Learn From The Masters Outreach www.LMMO.org at Dusty Strings Music Store & School, 3406 Fremont Ave N Seattle WA 98103 Cost: $90 *News: Now SOLD OUT! Waiting list info at: https://store.dustystrings.com.
The world-renowned fingerstyle guitarist has taken his unique sound to all corners of the globe and is excited to be on his long-awaited cross-USA tour, dropping his new album "Azwan" - about our oneness and interconnectivity - at last performing these songs for live audiences in the midst of a unifying global crisis. Emotional, delicate, playful and moving, it is garnering glowing reviews.
ABOUT PIERRE:
It's as if the guitar has been given free reign to play itself! French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan, nicknamed "Mr. DADGAD", has taken his unique sound to all corners of the globe. Winner of the Independent Music Awards for his triple live album "Encore", voted Best World Music guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine reader's Poll, and winner of the Rose d'Or at the Montreux Festival for his debut album, Pierre is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of the 21st century.
Born in Oran, French-Algeria, in 1957 when France was decolonizing its Empire, Pierre Bensusan's family moved to Paris when he was 4. He began formal studies on piano at the age of 7 and at 11 taught himself guitar. Influenced in those early days by the folk revival blooming in Britain, France and North America, Bensusan began first to explore his own diverse musical heritage and then moved to the horizons beyond. He signed his first recording contract at 17 and one year later his first album, "Près de Paris" won the Grand Prix du Disque upon his debut at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland.
One of the most unique and brilliant acoustic guitar veterans in the world music scene today, Pierre's name became synonymous with contemporary acoustic guitar genius, long before the term World Music was invented. He has literally created a style of playing with the ability to make a single guitar sound like an entire band as he brings the audience on a mesmerizing musical journey. And yet, Bensusan is more than what any musician or music lover expects from a guitarist. He is a composer as well as a bilingual and original and improvisational vocalist, with his own scat technique.
Immortalized by the tune 'Bensusan' written in tribute by the late Michael Hedges, and referenced as an important inspiration to many other great musicians, Pierre Bensusan is a one-of-a-kind artist whose music transcends genre and time, with an uninhibited sense of musical freedom and expression, a sense of something both playful and serious, otherworldly yet right here; right now. His "manner" of playing defies classification - crossing world, classical, jazz, traditional, folk, pop and more. None can be isolated as simply "World Music", "Celtic", "Arabic" or "French"; rather, they represent Pierre's genuine vocabulary and the best part of our world in its current state, a world sharing itself.
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