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Featuring Medicine Singers, Lee Ranaldo & Yonatan Gat, Maalem Hassan BenJafaar, Mamady Kouyate, Laraaji and Special Guests TBA
Medicine Singers is the name of an ongoing collaboration between Yonatan Gat, the wildly virtuosic Israeli-born, New York-based guitarist, and the Eastern Medicine Singers, an Eastern Algonquin powwow group from Rhode Island. Now joined by the legendary Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Medicine Singers combine ancient trance and spirituality with m
Featuring Marc Ribot & Leyla McCalla, Yasmin Williams, Neel Murgai & Kunal Prakash
The New York Guitar Festival’s 25th Anniversary begins with a typically eclectic event. The duo of Marc Ribot, the New York guitarist, and Leyla McCalla, the New Orleans cellist and banjo player, may seem unlikely at first. Ribot is known for his work with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, his own avant-noise trio Ceramic Dog, and much more; McCalla writes songs tha
NEW YORK GUITAR FESTIVAL @ THE GREENE SPACE
The New York Guitar Festival returns to The Greene Space, WNYC’s ground floor performance venue, for an action-packed two-part series on Monday and Tuesday, June 12 and 13.
NEW YORK GUITAR FESTIVAL @ THE GREENE SPACE
The New York Guitar Festival returns to The Greene Space, WNYC’s ground floor performance venue, for an action-packed two-part series on Monday and Tuesday, June 12 and 13.
New York Guitar Festival @ The Greene Space
The fourth and final night of the 2022 festival features the space-Americana and pastoral country stylings of guitarist, composer, and collaborator William Tyler.
New York Guitar Festival @ The Greene Space
This third night features Brazilian polymath Badi Assad, who is a guitarist, yes, and…a singer, percussionist, keyboardist, and dancer. Also, on the third night, the possibly cosmic and definitely virtuosic shimmering fire of guitarist and composer Vernon Reid together with multi-instrumentalist Laraaji, perhaps on zither.
New York Guitar Festival @ The Greene Space
Join us for the second of four nights celebrating spectacular guitar talents features American jazz (and country, West African, classical, improvisatory) guitarist, composer, and bandleader Bill Frisell, together with bassist, guitarist, and pedal steel player Luke Bergman.
New York Guitar Festival @ The Greene Space
This is the first of four nights of a celebration of today’s most dazzling guitar talents and features Malian guitar virtuoso Vieux Farka Touré, son of the legendary West African blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré and a leading figure on the global music scene.
The New York Guitar Festival pays tribute to trailblazing classical guitar icon Julian Bream (1933-2020) with a week of online performances
The 2021 New York Guitar Festival (NYGF) pays tribute to the iconic classical guitarist Julian Bream with an online series of concerts beginning July 14.
an on-line performance series exploring the music of blind blues musician, Rev. Gary Davis. Featuring: Warren Haynes, Larkin Poe, Bill Frisell, Fantastic Negrito, Rosanne Cash, Amythyst Kiah, Jorma Kaukonen, Dom Flemons, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Friends,
We hope you are healthy and safe out there. While plans for the New York Guitar Festival this year had to be adjusted for obvious reasons, we’re excited to share with you what we are up to.
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