Tony McManus
Friday, May 10 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
NOTE: This Workshop requires a separately purchased ticket in addition to General Admission. Get Tickets
An Intro To Celtic Guitar
In the course of the workshop we will look at what makes Celtic music and how does the guitar fit into this. We will look at altered tunings DADGAD, CGCGCD, CGDGCD etc. and look for relationships between them.
Much of what characterises Celtic music is the ornamentation associated with fiddles and pipes etc. I have been looking at ways of translating some of that to guitar in a natural way. I look forward to sharing these ideas.
About Tony
Tony McManus has come to be recognized throughout the world as the leading guitarist in Celtic Music. From early childhood his twin obsessions of traditional music and acoustic guitar have worked together to produce a startlingly original approach to this ancient art. Self taught from childhood, initially through listening to the family record collection.
McManus abandoned academia in his twenties to pursue music full time. The session scene in Glasgow and Edinburgh provided the springboard for gigs around Scotland and a studio set for BBC Radio, frequently rebroadcast, began to spread the word. Tony’s work has come to represent Celtic music in the guitar world, making regular appearances at guitar specific events where just a few years ago jigs and reels would be unheard of.
He is invited annually to the Chet Atkins Festival in Nashville, has appeared at Guitar Festivals in Soave and Pescantina, Sarzana and Francacorta Italy; Frankston, Australia; Issoudun and Bordeaux France; Kirkmichael, Scotland; Bath and Kent, England; Bochum and Osnabruck, Germany. In 2004 he appeared at the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in the “All Star Guitar Night” featuring Steve Morse, Bryan Sutton, Muriel Anderson, Béla Fleck and Victor Wooten and headlined by the legendary Les Paul.
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