'Mozart of Guitar' Pierre Bensusan Heads to North America for a Summer Tour to 'Vividly' Celebrate His Critically-Acclaimed A...
March 15 2012 - 10:00AM
Marketwired
Nearly 15 months after his last stateside visit,
Pierre Bensusan (
www.PierreBensusan.com) heads back to the U.S. for a
highly anticipated tour, starting at the
Nightcat in
Easton, MD. May 9.
Over the course of his summer jaunt, the French-Algerian artist
globally known as the
"Mozart of Guitar" --
who released his most recent album,
Vividly,
in late 2010 -- will perform in venues throughout the
Mid-Atlantic, South, West Coast, Northwest, Midwest and
Northeast.
In addition to the U.S. shows, Bensusan will also be performing
at the Montreal Jazz Festival on April 27, Capilano University in
North Vancouver, British Columbia June 27,
Salon de Lutherie on June 30, and the
Trinity St. Paul's United Church in
Toronto on July 8.
Bensusan's U.S. dates are part of an extensive seven month
global tour that began with four March dates
at the Portfairy Festival in Portfairy, Australia and includes a total of 17 dates
in Australia, three in China and numerous
shows in France, Germany, Austria, Ireland and the
UK.
Vividly, a multi-cultural, melodic instrumental and vocal album,
marked Bensusan's 35th year as a recording artist -- a span that
includes such accolades as Guitar Player
Magazine's Reader's Choice Award as the "Best
World Music Guitar Player" (2008) and the American Association of Independent Music's "Best Acoustic
Album of 2002" for Intuite.
One of the key people that Bensusan and Vividly have emotionally
lassoed is three-time Grammy Award winner and master guitarist
Steve Vai, who has worked with fellow
electric guitar monsters like Frank Zappa and
Joe Satriani and also toured with Ozzy Osbourne. Vividly was released in the U.S. and
Canada on Vai's label Favored Nations.
Another iconic guitarist who played with Osbourne, along with
Quiet Riot, was the late Randy Rhoads; an upcoming DVD "Randy
Rhoads: The Quiet Riot Years" will feature Bensusan's song
"Hymn 11" from his Altiplatos album. The video -- a companion piece to the
book "Crazy Train: The High Life And Tragic Death
Of Randy Rhoads" -- highlights the life of the guitar master
who died in a plane crash in 1982. The DVD will be available for
preorder April 1 on www.guitarworld.com.
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