 Tony McManus, Martin Simpson Louis McManus Memorial Concert Booking No. 4 $36/$28 Friday 18 March 2011 8.00pm, Brunswick Town Hall Tram No.19 to Stop 21 | Doors Open: 7.15pm 
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 Tony McManus  Martin Simpson THE LOUIS McMANUS MEMORIAL CONCERT Louis McManus: 1956-2004 2011 marks the 23nd anniversary of the Brunswick Music Festival, and over those 23 years, no-one has captured 'the heart and soul' of the Festival more than the late Louis McManus. Louis lived in Brunswick for more than ten years and this was his 'home-town' festival. It was fitting then, that he played such a major role in the 1st Brunswick Music Festival way back in 1989. Louis would go on to play at the Brunswick Music Festival with either the The Purple Dentists or the Leisure Twins each and every year until illness forced him from the stage. The Annual Louis McManus Memorial Concert, presented as a part of the Brunswick Music Festival, is an opportunity to celebrate the music and the friendship that we all shared with Louis. 
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Memorial Concert brings together two of the most innovative acoustic
guitarists in the world folk idiom. TONY McMANUS Scots born and now Canada based, Tony McManus is known throughout the world as the leading guitarist in Celtic Music. Through Tony's hands the emotions of Celtic music are transferred to the guitar and the listener is drawn into the driving energy of a reel or the timeless atmosphere of a lament. His engaging personality on stage has taken him to five continents and his contribution was recently recognised with a Gold Medal voted by the readers of Acoustic Guitar magazine - fellow recipients were John Williams, Paco de Lucia and Tommy Emmanuel. His latest album The Makers Mark is a unique recording where he performs selections on 15 handcrafted guitars where alongside his lifelong love of Scottish and Irish music, he explores harmonies from South Africa, to the strange scales and rhythms of Eastern Europe. View Tony McManus Website | View Tony McManus MySpace Workshop- Tony McManus Celtic guitar Wednesday, 16 March, 7.30-9pm. Mechanics Institute PAC Booking No. 29 Click here for more information 
View More Tony McManus at You Tube MARTIN SIMPSON Martin Simpson is an Englishman who has spent 35 years as a professional musician and who is part of that great lineage of English acoustic folk stylists beginning back with Davy Graham, continuing with Martin Carthy, Nic Jones and so on. Widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the world, his interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling, and no-one has more successfully combined the diverse elements of British, Afro-American and old-timey music than him. Martin has been nominated an astounding 23 times in the eleven years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - in 2010 he had an unprecedented 6 nominations for his CD, True Stories. View Martin Simpson Website
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