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Dec 12, 2008 7:30 pm (Friday)
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Part of TARA's Christmas Crackers. Free bottle of beer with every ticket! Drawing on blues, rock, funk and jazz influences among others, Preston Reed’s vast range of explos...
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Event details: Preston Reed in Concert
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Part of TARA's Christmas Crackers. Free bottle of beer with every ticket!
Drawing on blues, rock, funk and jazz influences among others, Preston Reed’s vast range of explosively original music will transform your expectations of a guitarist.
Reed practices a flamboyant "self-invented" style, characterized by percussive techniques and simultaneous rhythm and melody lines that dance and ricochet around each other, giving his music a level of excitement that is unparalleled among today's guitarists. He plays an array of guitars from acoustic to electric to classical. First-time listeners may find it impossible to believe that they're hearing just the one musician, in real time.
“Absolutely unmissable” The Herald.
“A major musical talent” Manchester Evening News.
Box Office: 0208 333 4457
Online: www.ticketweb.com
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£10More about these performers
Preston Reed
Preston Reed is a one-man revolution. The New Yorker tweaks the nose of musical convention, pokes the eye of accepted wisdom, and burns the rulebook of the past. His unique style is impossible, unfathomable, unthinkable, as with blurred hands he taps, tickles, slaps and soothes his instrument, fusing polyrhythmic percussion with emotive melody to create a sonic landscape. Each piece is a symphonic tidal wave, yet Reed only needs one acoustic and ten fingers to send it crashing onto audiences across the planet. This is the guitar visionary of the 21st century. Starting with 1979’s Acoustic Guitar, a volley of thrilling albums spread Reed’s ...Post a Countdown Widget
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