LOCAL MUSIC LIVE!!
Graham Wardrop – Tuesday August 14th, 8pm Cafe 121..121 Ponsonby rd.. With support by Paul Symons
Graham has
been acclaimed as New Zealand's finest finger style guitarist. After thirty
years in the professional arena, he is regularly
called
upon to give concert performances, to play on television and studio recording
sessions, to hold workshops in advanced fingerstyle techniques for steel string
guitar, along with providing atmospheric music in sophisticated dining
situations.
Graham has performed solo and alongside some of the world's finest musicians, dazzling audiences at countless festivals, concerts and corporate functions.
He has toured with Australia's Slim Dusty and Anne Kirkpatrick and New Zealand's Billy T. James. He's opened shows for Manhattan Transfer, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Vanessa-Mae, Michael Crawford and Joshua Kadison. He's played alongside Tommy Emmanuel and Gray Bartlett, and played on shows with Martin Taylor, Leo Kottke and Michael Fix. His warm stage manner puts an audience at ease while he enthralls them with his mastery of a huge range of guitar styles.
Not only does Graham maintain a busy performance schedule, but he also handcrafts the instruments on which he performs.
The past few years have been busy
with travel to many destinations around New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea
and Asia, especially Hong Kong, to play to a wide range of audiences. Most of
the time he plays solo, but occasionally Graham works with different artists in
various combinations - he's even featured as a soloist with orchestras from time
to time.
"I don't use backing tracks, midi files,
sequencers or karaoke backings in my solo shows - I leave that to everyone else.
Every note that you hear, I have played. I think it's important to state this
fact these days. A comment I get time and again, always in a very relieved tone,
is 'It's so good to hear an instrument actually being played!'".
Graham is a musician of great versatility. His love
of beauty, harmony and precision culminates in his richness of sound and a
unique style of performance.
GRAHAM AT WWW.GRAHAMWARDROP.COM
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