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Adrian Legg
The Arcata Playhouse and the Sanctuary performance space team up to present guitarist Adrian Legg. Legg is a world-class fingerstyle guitarist based in the U.K. His solo performances are marked by their technical brilliance, evocative melodies and adventurous spirit. This special evening will take place at the Sanctuary at 13th and J Streets in Arcata.
Since the 1990 release of his first U.S. recording Guitars and Other Cathedrals, Adrian Legg has more than lived up to the expectations stirred by an ongoing avalanche of praise from critics, fans, top guitar mags and peers alike. Joe Satriani once said, "He's simply the best acoustic guitar player I've ever heardhe plays like he has hammers for fingers." The genius that the Boston Globe has called "technical brilliance paired with a troubadour's tale-weaving skill" led him from 1993-96 to be voted Best Fingerstyle Guitarist four years straight by the readers of Guitar Player magazine.
Two well-traveled press quotes perfectly summarize the penetrating musical realm of Adrian Legg. "Like all genuine originals," says Todd Allison of acousticmusicresource.com, "Legg is tough to categorize." And back in 2000, the year after the guitarist released his second Red House Records disc Fingers & Thumbs, the Philadelphia Enquirer enthused, "There are guitarists, there are axe-wielding maniacs, and then there are wizards. Adrian Legg is one of the wizards. He has enough technique to do just about anything he wants, but also the sensitivity to honor the contours of a melody."
Guitarist magazine voted Legg Acoustic Guitarist of the Decade in the magazine's 10th anniversary poll. Over the years, he's played at the Montreux Jazz Festival and toured with Richard Thompson, David Lindley, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and as part of the G3 Tour featuring Satriani, Johnson and Favored Nations founder Steve Vai.
He's also shared the wealth of his talent and experience with three teaching videos (Beyond Acoustic Guitar, Fingerpicking & Open Tunings, How To Cheat At Guitar) and two booksthe technical Customizing Your Electric Guitar (Music Sales Corporation) and the musical "Pickin' and Squintin'" (Cherry Lane Music), a collection of Legg's guitar compositions in tablature and standard notation. In recent years, he has also been a commentator at large for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and more recently, regular listeners have heard his guitar versions of the show's theme music.
Born in the Salvation Army Hospital in Hackney, London, Legg is a classic mongrel Londoner, with the long mixed East End blood of entrepreneurial Hugenot and Jewish refugees topped up from a sturdy line of East Anglian farmers; a fertile genetic stew mixed further with Welsh, West Indian and Pilipino in his grandchildren.
Legg's true home is onstage. "Playing live is the whole point," he says. "Everyone makes a journey, an effort; we all come together me, the audience, the people who run the venue to share this wonderful, universal, human emotional interaction. This is where music lives."
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LocationThe Sanctuary (View)
13th & J Streets
Arcata, CA 95521
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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