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Blues Guitarist Toby Walker in concert


Branford
Folk Music Society

November 9: Toby Walker


 


Here’s another
Branford Folk Music Society first appearance. Internationally acclaimed Toby
Walker has been hailed as a roots music fingerstyle guitar virtuoso. He combines
the styles of blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, rock and old time jazz into
his own unique style. Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna and the Jefferson Airplane
says, "Flat out... you have to hear this great musician... I'm blown away" and
has employed Walker to teach at his famous Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp for the
past six years. In 2010 Toby won the New York Music Award for “Best Instrumental
CD,” sharing honors with Mariah Carey, Rufus Wainwright and Judy Collins among
others.


Toby has toured
America, England, Wales, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland and he’s been the
subject of profiles in The New York
Times
, the London Sunday Times,
on the London BBC and on Sirius-XM radio. Most significant, he’s a first place
recipient of the International Blues Challenge Award given by the Blues
Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee.

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At a young age,
Toby’s passion for blues, rags, folk, and other traditional American music drove
him to leave an apartment crammed full of recordings, books and instruments for
the Mississippi Delta, Virginia and the Carolinas where he tracked down some of
the more obscure — but immensely talented — music makers of an earlier era. He
learned directly from Eugene Powell, James "Son" Thomas, Etta Baker and R.L
Burnside, among others.


He comes to
Branford Folk just as his latest album is being released, “What You See Is What
You Get”.

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Renowned
singer-songwriter David Massengill succinctly summed up Toby Walker: “[He] is
that rare performer that takes your breath away. In my book he's in a class by
himself. Standards and originals are played with flawless blues guitar technique
and sung with gutsy panache. A showstopper and ringtail
roarer.”



Admission: $15 for nonmembers, $12 for members, $5 for kids 12 and
under Pay at the door.

Branford Folk Coffeehouse
First Congregational
Church of Branford
1009 Main Street, Branford,
CT.

8:00pm

Wheelchair accessible.

For more information call
203-488-7715
Email: branfordfolk@gmail.com
http://folknotes.org/branfordfolk/

Branford Folk Coffeehouse welcomes refreshment donations
of pastries, cold drinks and other assorted goodies! Bring your own travel mug
or thermos and take home any leftover coffee!

Branford Folk Music Society - Traditionally, the Best Folk Music
in southern Connecticut since 1973.

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