Don’t miss the chance to hear a special shared bill featuring two exceptional fingerstyle guitarists: Phil Heywood and Gordon Thorne. Savor two solo sets of lyrical narratives and down-home rhythmic grooves, plus a few delectable duets at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26.
Phil Heywood plays fingerstyle guitar with a bluesy swing and a bucketful of whatever it takes to turn an instrumental piece into an arresting lyrical narrative.
Winner of the 1986 National Fingerpicking Championship and the 1987American Fingerstyle Guitar Festival Competition, Phil has since played on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion with guitar legend Chet Atkins and many other acoustic guitar luminaries. He has recorded five CDs: Some Summer Day (1990), Local Joe (1996), Circle Tour (2000), Banks of the River (2003), and You Got To Move (2008).
Gordon Thorne began playing fingerstyle guitar in the late 1970s. Drawing primarily on the styles of early rural blues and ragtime players, he has developed a swinging, syncopated guitar style. Over the years, Thorne has explored music from the British Isles, different regions of Africa, and some South American stuff, but in the end he brings it all back home, letting these world music influences filter into a true American style.
Since the early 1980s, Thorne has been living on Minnesota’s north shore in the small town of Finland, working as a carpenter and playing a little music on a little guitar. With guitarist Bob Bingham, he has recorded and released two CDs: Out of the Desert and into the Blues and Bingham and Thorne, 2.
Call the North Shore Music Association for more information at (218) 387-2916.
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