Theme from The Deer Hunter: Cavatina
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Today's Feature Artist - Michael Lucarelli
Michael Lucarelli was born on August 18, 1959 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began his music education in 1973 on the electric guitar after hearing the group Led Zepplin. Later, Michael discovered the classical guitar and began his studies with Peruvian Guitarist Ricardo Linares. Mr. Lucarelli went on to receive his Bachelor of Music degree in 1989 from the University of Utah and his Master of Music in 1992 from the University of Arizona in Guitar performance.
Michael Lucarelli YouTube Channel
Moonlight Sonata
Today's Featured Artist - The Music Eclectic
Mood For A Day
This song is one of my favorite guitar pieces by Steve Howe and played here by The Music Eclectic.
This song is one of my favorite guitar pieces by Steve Howe and played here by The Music Eclectic.
Today's Featured Artist - NAUDO
I was born in Recife ( Brasil )on april 23, 1961. I am married with ROSA, a beautiful Spanish girl and we have two children, Daniel y Paula. Now I´m living in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands of Spain, where I work like a musician.
I began to play guitar at five years age. Belong to a family of musicians, but never went to any school or music conservatory. So I´m autodidact. I learned to play guitar jamming with other musicians, and went digesting all musical styles.
~ NAUDO YouTube Channel
As Time Goes By
Today's Featured Artist - Zane Charron
"Combining traditional acoustic guitar with modern techniques and a percussive style, Zane turns what would usually sound like a single instrument into a full band, including a rhythm section, backup and lead guitar. Add his strong voice to the mix and he becomes a captivating and entertaining solo artist. His music is a refreshing blend of intricate, dazzling fingerpicking guitar and uniquely arranged songs from a variety of genres. Together they create a rich sound that embodies the spirit of the contemporary American acoustic guitar scene. This is hand-made music at its best."
~ Zane Charron MySpace
Zane was recently a featured guitarist here on Guitar Man. I am showcasing his talents once again with the announcement of his newly released debut CD on Wonderland Records:
Neither Here Nor There
For details on how to obtain your CD follow this link and soon you will be able to take Zane along in your car for those short commutes, long road trips or just stay home and let Zane provide your ambient music around the house.
Pacetti - An Original Tune
Visit Zane's YouTube Channel
Today's Featured Artist - Don Alder
"Don currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His unique style of playing incorporates fingerpicking with simultaneous percussion on the soundboard to create a wall of sound. He is often referred to as sounding like a four piece band. Don's music is his own unique weave of deeply textured melody and story. Lyrical and compelling, his original songs are notes of exploration - some passionate and haunting, some hard-driven, others light and teasing. In quiet pieces or pushing right to the edge, Don's phenomenal fingerstyle playing and rich voice captivate."
~ DonAlder.com
Don Alder MySpace
Don Alder YouTube
Previously featured on this site here and here.
Today's Featured Artist- Pat Kirtley
A Kentucky-born guitarist who learned the instrument at an early age via the Atkins/Travis/Doc Watson heritage, Pat Kirtley admits to having been hard-bitten by the Irish music bug in the late 1980's after hearing guitarist John McCormick playing Celtic tunes in DADGAD tuning. He began exploring that tuning, and channeling significant creative energy into arranging Irish fiddle tunes and airs. "I am as fascinated by the fabulous wealth of musicality represented in the Irish folk-tradition as I am by the fact that I went through most of my musical life being totally ignorant of its existence," Pat remarks. The results of that work are represented in his body of work by arrangements of "Planxty Irwin" (in DADEAD tuning), the set dance "Rodney's Glory," and airs "Moran's Return" and "The South Wind," all appearing on his 1997 album Irish Guitar.
Bio via Mel Bay
Pat Kirtley on the Web
Pat Kirtley MySpace
Pat Kirtley Wikipedia Bio
The Blarney Pilgrim on DVD
Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar: Moran's Return and South Wind
Encore: Pat Kirkley & Tommy Emmanuel> Steel Guitar Stomp
Today's Featured Artist - Anders Skadborg
"Hard working engineer, with two kids, a wife and playing classical guitar in my spare time." ~ Skadborg YouTube Channel
Also, visit Anders at SkadborgMusik
Vals Venezolano No. 2
Today's Featured Artist - John Williams
Born in Melbourne, Australia to an English father (Len Williams, founder of The Monkey Sanctuary in Cornwall, England) and an Australian-Chinese mother (a daughter of well known Melbourne barrister William Ah Ket), Williams was taught initially by his father. At the age of twelve he went to Italy to study under Andrés Segovia. Segovia said of Williams that "God had touched his brow".
John Williams Official Site
Today's Featured Artist - Ken Nicol
Ken Nicol is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer from Preston, in England. His music covers the spectrum from blues to rock, and effortlessly takes in folk, jazz, ragtime, ballads and more along the way.
~ Ken Nicol Official Website
F.Y.
Today's Featured Artist - Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and film director.
Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments—including piano and harmonica—his style of hammer-on acoustic guitar is the linchpin of a sometimes ragged, sometimes polished sound.
Neil's Garage
Harvest
Today's Featured Artist - Jose Luis Merlin
One of Argentina's foremost musical ambassadors, composer-guitarist José Luis Merlin has toured the globe over twenty times and has produced a dozen recordings. He is widely acknowledged as an expert in Argentinian and South American music. The Keiler Nachriten (Germany) asserted that "An artist like José Luis Merlin needs no certificates of his mastery over the strings of his guitar, since the composer does more than dominate the instrument. It is a kind of symbiosis."
Evocacion from La Suite del Recuerdo
Additionally, here is Cyrloud (featured on my last Guitar Man update) playing Evocacion.
I located the guitar tablature for Evocacion. Try it!
Today's Featured Artist - Jose Feliciano
REPOST
The name Feliciano is synonymous with MUSIC. It is synonymous with an international presence that has influenced popular music for more than two generations. It is synonymous with a presence that has bridged musical styles in a way which has never been equaled. Jose Feliciano is recognized as the first Latin Artist to cross over into the English music market, opening the doors to others who now play an important part in the American music industry. As importantly, Feliciano has been acclaimed by critics throughout the world as "the greatest living guitarist". Guitar Player Magazine awarded him "Best Pop Guitarist" placing him in their "Gallery of the Greats" and he's been voted both Best Jazz and Best Rock Guitarist in the Playboy Magazine reader's poll, as well. He's been awarded over forty-five Gold and Platinum records; has won sixteen Grammy nominations, earning him six Grammy Awards and is in receipt of countless prestigious awards the world over. In 1996, Jose Feliciano was selected to receive Billboard Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award and New York City honored him by re-naming Public School 155 in East Harlem, "The Jose Feliciano Performing Arts School." And In 2001, Jose received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, for his musical as well as humanitarian contributions to the world.
- The Official Jose Feliciano Website
Flight of The Bumble Bee - Jose Feliciano
The name Feliciano is synonymous with MUSIC. It is synonymous with an international presence that has influenced popular music for more than two generations. It is synonymous with a presence that has bridged musical styles in a way which has never been equaled. Jose Feliciano is recognized as the first Latin Artist to cross over into the English music market, opening the doors to others who now play an important part in the American music industry. As importantly, Feliciano has been acclaimed by critics throughout the world as "the greatest living guitarist". Guitar Player Magazine awarded him "Best Pop Guitarist" placing him in their "Gallery of the Greats" and he's been voted both Best Jazz and Best Rock Guitarist in the Playboy Magazine reader's poll, as well. He's been awarded over forty-five Gold and Platinum records; has won sixteen Grammy nominations, earning him six Grammy Awards and is in receipt of countless prestigious awards the world over. In 1996, Jose Feliciano was selected to receive Billboard Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award and New York City honored him by re-naming Public School 155 in East Harlem, "The Jose Feliciano Performing Arts School." And In 2001, Jose received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, for his musical as well as humanitarian contributions to the world.- The Official Jose Feliciano Website
Flight of The Bumble Bee - Jose Feliciano
Today's Featured Artist - Cyrloud
Celtic Guitar
I received the above video via a subscriber of my YouTube channel. I enjoyed it so much that I am posting it here to share with you. Not much is known by me about the guitarist other than he originates from France. Listen to more of him at Cyrloud YouTube Channel.
I received the above video via a subscriber of my YouTube channel. I enjoyed it so much that I am posting it here to share with you. Not much is known by me about the guitarist other than he originates from France. Listen to more of him at Cyrloud YouTube Channel.
Today's Featured Artist - Django Reinhardt
January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953
Django Reinhardt has astounded and thrilled numerous generations of guitar players and jazz lovers with his amazing command of the guitar. January 24th, 1910 at Liberchies Belgium, Django was born into the open air, rambling lifestyle of his gypsy parents. At the age of eight, his mother's tribe settled near the belt of fortifications that surrounded the old Paris, near the Choisy gate. He never wore a suit or lived in a real house until he was twenty years old. These French Gypsies or Manouches were a world unto themselves, medieval in their beliefs, and distrustful of modern science. Django grew up in this world of contradictions, one foot in the bustling big city of Paris and the other in the age-old life of the nomadic gypsy. Though born into poverty Django had the soul of a nobleman and this natural elegance of bearing and attitude expressed itself in his music.
The Late Great Django Reinhardt
In memory of the Genius Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt has astounded and thrilled numerous generations of guitar players and jazz lovers with his amazing command of the guitar. January 24th, 1910 at Liberchies Belgium, Django was born into the open air, rambling lifestyle of his gypsy parents. At the age of eight, his mother's tribe settled near the belt of fortifications that surrounded the old Paris, near the Choisy gate. He never wore a suit or lived in a real house until he was twenty years old. These French Gypsies or Manouches were a world unto themselves, medieval in their beliefs, and distrustful of modern science. Django grew up in this world of contradictions, one foot in the bustling big city of Paris and the other in the age-old life of the nomadic gypsy. Though born into poverty Django had the soul of a nobleman and this natural elegance of bearing and attitude expressed itself in his music.
The Late Great Django Reinhardt
In memory of the Genius Django Reinhardt
Today's Featured Artist - Manuel Barrueco
Manuel Barrueco Official Website
Manuel Barrueco (pronounced Mah-noo-éhl Bah-roo-éh-koh) is a Classical music guitarist. He was born on 1952 in Santiago de Cuba, on Cuba's southeastern shore. He has toured in the U.S., Europe and Japan, and serves on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland.
Manuel Barrueco began playing the guitar at the age of eight, and he attended the Esteban Salas Conservatory in his native Santiago de Cuba. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1967, later completing his advanced studies at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he was granted a scholarship.
At the age of merely 22 he became the first classical guitarist to receive the Concert Artist Guild Award in 1974, attesting to the fact that before him, guitar music hadn't been universally accepted in classical music.
His first recordings aroused incredulous amazement about his skills and musical interpretation. Ever since, Barrueco has toured extensively, recently appearing in some of the world's most important musical centers, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Munich, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, Copenhagen, Athens, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He has toured in Japan nine times.
via Wikipedia
A Gift and a Life - Movie Trailer
Today's Featured Artist - Esteban
His name was given him by legendary classical guitarist Andres Segovia, who called him "Esteban" during his years of study with the master in Spain (1974-1978) and in the United States. Born Stephen Paul in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, son of a steelmill worker, Esteban saw his first guitar in a shop window when he was 8 years old. His uncle bought it for him and Esteban says, "It never left my hands."
via Welcome to Esteban Music!
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Esteban Strings
Esteban Reviews
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Am I a fan? You bet! Esteban is my idea of what the epitome of acoustic fingerstyle playing is all about... talent and artistry combined with the finest repertoire of his class.
Discography
* The Best of Esteban (2006)
* The New Flamenco Y Rosas (2006)
* Father/Daughter (2004)
* Celebrate the Memories (2004)
* Back 2 Back (2003)
* Esteban & Friends: Live in Sedona (2003)
* Happy Holidays (2003)
* Live in Sedona (2003)
* Eternal Love (2003)
* Walk Beside Me (2002)
* Flame, Flamenco & Romance, Vol. 2 (2002)
* Esteban By Request (2001)
* Flame, Flamenco & Romance, Vol. 1 (2001)
* Esteban Live (2001)
* Joy to the World (2001)
* Holiday Trilogy (2001)
* At Home With Esteban (2001)
* All My Love (2001)
* Duende (2001)
* What Child Is This (2001)
* Spirits of the West (2001)
* Heart of Gold (2001)
* Passion (1999)
* Enter the Heart (1998)
* Flamenco Y Rosas (1995)
* Songs From My Heart (1995)
Today's Featured Artist - James Taylor (Repost)
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs. He was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also included Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush, Cat Stevens, Carole King, John Denver, Jackson Browne as well as Carly Simon, whom Taylor later married.
Fire and Rain
Today's Featured Artist - Zane Charron
As Time Goes By
This arrangement with a moving bassline is wonderful. One of my favorite things to play. - Zane Charron
zacharron YouTube Channel
Get the guitar tab and MIDI for As Time Goes By
@ B Whalin's Guitar Man - Solo Fingerstyle Midis & Tabs
This arrangement with a moving bassline is wonderful. One of my favorite things to play. - Zane Charron
zacharron YouTube Channel
Get the guitar tab and MIDI for As Time Goes By
@ B Whalin's Guitar Man - Solo Fingerstyle Midis & Tabs
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