Scottdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present a solo concert with guitarist Leo Kottke, November 1, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.
Single tickets are available for $42 from the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts' Web site at
www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org or the box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787).
Leo Kottke has released more than 30 albums and earned multiple Grammy Awards. A master of the steel-stringed guitar with a rich, baritone voice and charming stage presence, he has enchanted audiences for more than three decades with his unique synthesis of classical, folk, jazz and pop influences.
Kottke's ability to embrace folk idioms and pop melodies as readily as he assimilates jazz and classical influences makes him unique among guitar virtuosi. For all its technical brilliance, wicked syncopation and harmonic sophistication, Kottke's music is eminently accessible, and he remains a populist at heart. This has been abundantly clear ever since the guitarist's 1969 debut, 12-String Blues, recorded live at a Minneapolis folk club. Kottke's 1971 major label debut, Mudlark, and seminal Six- and 12-String Guitar (1972) announced the arrival of a major new voice in acoustic guitar instrumental music.
Classic Kottke albums like Chewing Pine (1975), Balance (1979), Time Step (1983), My Father's Face (1989), Great Big Boy (1991), Peculiaroso (1993) and One Guitar, No Vocals (1999) have consistently won over new fans while continuing to surprise and delight longtime aficionados. Over the years, Kottke has worked in the studio and shared concert stages with everyone from Lyle Lovett, John Fahey, T-Bone Burnett and Rickie Lee Jones to Paco de Lucia, Pepe Romero, John Williams, John McLaughlin and Joe Pass.
