310 South 9th Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
USA
Founder of International Guitar Night Brian Gore will be joined onstage by classical innovator and fellow Californian Andrew York, Brazilian jazz master Diego Figuierido, and Iranian acoustic guitarist and composer Maneli Jamal.
Brian Gore founded International Guitar Night in 1995 as a forum for the world’s finest guitarists/composers to play their latest original songs and share musical ideas with their peers in public concert. This has evolved into critically acclaimed annual tours in the US (starting in 2000), Canada (starting in 2006) and the UK (starting in 2007), a CD on Favored Nations Records released in 2004, a guitar instruction book published in 2005, and IGN releases on Warner Music Canada.
Gore’s style of playing offers strikingly beautiful tone and dynamics-qualities that are often hard to find in steel string players.
York is a Grammy winner both for his work with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and for his own compositions.
Figuierido is one of the most sought-after jazz artists in the world, combining technique and emotion in a fusion of traditional Brazilian music and jazz.
Young artist Jamal gained a sense of musical maturity rarely seen among his peers, transforming his nomadic life experience (having lived in five countries by the age of 18) into musical movements using extended guitar techniques.
