An Evening With Bill Mize
Immediate ReleaseThe Bridger Folk Music Society presents an evening with fingerstyle guitarist Bill Mize on Saturday January 27, 2007, at 7:30 pm at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 300 South 300 West in Logan. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door or by calling 792-4996.
Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended. The concert is co-sponsored by Utah Public Radio and Import Auto.Fingerstyle guitarist and composer, Bill Mize appeared with the emerging acoustic guitar movement in the 1980s (by way of the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and the Winfield Guitar Competition), and has continued to develope a style and sense of taste that influences many of today's guitarists.
Applauded by critics and guitar enthusiasts alike for his composition, tone, emotion and smooth "multi-part" style, Tennessee guitarist Bill Mize is a past winner of The National Finger- style Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. (Guitar Player Magazine has labeled this event the U.S. Open of guitar competitions) Bill's music is featured on the Grammy-winning recording, Stellaluna, as well as popular guitar compilations Windham Hill Guitar Sampler by Windham Hill Records and Masters of the Acoustic Guitar by Narada Records.
John August Music/Mel Bay Productions have transcribed Mize's second cd, Tender Explorations, into a songbook, and several guitar magazines have published some of Mize's arrangements and original compositions. Bill tours nationwide and is a frequent clinician / performer at guitar camps including the Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina, and Steve Kaufmann's Guitar Camp in Tennessee.While Mize has drawn inspiration from legends of soul, jazz, folk and rock, his original music is more difficult to peg.
It has been described as varying from delicate Appalachian highland melodies executed with classical sensitivity, to greasy Memphis grooves, performed in such a smooth yet syncopated fashion, you'd swear there was another guitarist on stage. Rather than only rely on wowing with his impressive "chops", Bill draws an audience in with his composition, emotion and tone. (He does let the fingers fly every now and then!)For more information, go to www.billmize.com, or www.bridgerfolk.org.
Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended. The concert is co-sponsored by Utah Public Radio and Import Auto.Fingerstyle guitarist and composer, Bill Mize appeared with the emerging acoustic guitar movement in the 1980s (by way of the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and the Winfield Guitar Competition), and has continued to develope a style and sense of taste that influences many of today's guitarists.
Applauded by critics and guitar enthusiasts alike for his composition, tone, emotion and smooth "multi-part" style, Tennessee guitarist Bill Mize is a past winner of The National Finger- style Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. (Guitar Player Magazine has labeled this event the U.S. Open of guitar competitions) Bill's music is featured on the Grammy-winning recording, Stellaluna, as well as popular guitar compilations Windham Hill Guitar Sampler by Windham Hill Records and Masters of the Acoustic Guitar by Narada Records.
John August Music/Mel Bay Productions have transcribed Mize's second cd, Tender Explorations, into a songbook, and several guitar magazines have published some of Mize's arrangements and original compositions. Bill tours nationwide and is a frequent clinician / performer at guitar camps including the Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina, and Steve Kaufmann's Guitar Camp in Tennessee.While Mize has drawn inspiration from legends of soul, jazz, folk and rock, his original music is more difficult to peg.
It has been described as varying from delicate Appalachian highland melodies executed with classical sensitivity, to greasy Memphis grooves, performed in such a smooth yet syncopated fashion, you'd swear there was another guitarist on stage. Rather than only rely on wowing with his impressive "chops", Bill draws an audience in with his composition, emotion and tone. (He does let the fingers fly every now and then!)For more information, go to www.billmize.com, or www.bridgerfolk.org.
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