AMP Concerts - Adrian Legg

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Adrian Legg
The Cooperage
7220 Lomas Blvd NE
(Just east of Louisiana)
7:30 PM Concert
(Doors open at 6 PM)
21 and over

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Band of Heathens 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 heard... he 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. He was also chosen as "Guitarist of the Decade" by Guitarist 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."

As popular as his catalog of recordings is, 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."

"...Legg is, above all, a guitarist of great power, invention and versatility... Through fast-fingered picking, spontaneously layering parts and occasional ringing harmonics, he sounds like an orchestra."
—St. Petersburg Times

The Cooperage is a full service restaurant/nigthclub specializing in steak & seafood, with a large salad bar, good deserts and a full bar.

$15 advance, $20 day of show.

Buy tickets on-line through Brown Paper Tickets
or by phone: 1-800-838-3006

Tickets also available (cash only plus $2 surcharge) at:

4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, 344-8139
Natural Sound, 3422 Central Ave. SE, 255-8295