Two
guitar workshops back-to-back!
Muriel
Anderson: Creating your own techniques -
Explore the possibilities of the fingerboard and
musical expression on the guitar.
Raughi Ebert: Easy Spanish techniques that sound cool! Intro to Rumba Flamenco.
Raughi Ebert: Easy Spanish techniques that sound cool! Intro to Rumba Flamenco.
MURIEL ANDERSON is the
first woman to have won the National
Fingerpicking Guitar Championship, is host
of the renowned Muriel Anderson's All
Star Guitar Night® and founder of the
Music for Life Alliance charity. Her music
can be heard in Woody Allen's film "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona." and her
"Heartstrings" recording accompanied the
astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery.
Muriel's obvious joy of music and facility
across musical genres is revered by
guitarists and audiences worldwide. Her
new CD "New World Flamenco" with Germany's
famed duo, Tierra Negra, has been met with
great enthusiasm. Her teaching style full
of humor and passion, Muriel is an in
demand educator. Her instructional DVD,
Innovations for acoustic guitar, covers
her advanced finger style and arranging
techniques.
RAUGHI EBERT of Tierra Negra
TIERRA NEGRA is Germany's most successful guitar duo. The duo belongs to the protagonists of Flamenco Nuevo worldwide. Since their discovery in 1997 in Montréal, Canada, and the record contract that followed, they have produced a total of ten CDs. Their compositions are featured on countless international guitar compilations. Numerous concert tours brought them all over Europe and Canada. Even HOLLYWOOD used their music for the movie "THE PERFUME". Without losing the thread to the Rumba-Flamenco tradition of the Camargue and Spain, TIERRA NEGRA creates a unique combination of folklore, lounge and pop elements in their music. Raughi is passionate about sharing his discoveries and innovations in the Rumba Flamenco idiom - easy techniques that sound cool.
TIERRA NEGRA is Germany's most successful guitar duo. The duo belongs to the protagonists of Flamenco Nuevo worldwide. Since their discovery in 1997 in Montréal, Canada, and the record contract that followed, they have produced a total of ten CDs. Their compositions are featured on countless international guitar compilations. Numerous concert tours brought them all over Europe and Canada. Even HOLLYWOOD used their music for the movie "THE PERFUME". Without losing the thread to the Rumba-Flamenco tradition of the Camargue and Spain, TIERRA NEGRA creates a unique combination of folklore, lounge and pop elements in their music. Raughi is passionate about sharing his discoveries and innovations in the Rumba Flamenco idiom - easy techniques that sound cool.
May 21st, 2011
11.00 to 12:30pm
Muriel Anderson: Creating your own techniques - Explore the possibilities of the fingerboard and musical expression on the guitar.
12:30pm to 2.00pm
Raughi Ebert of Tierra Negra's Easy Spanish techniques that sound cool! Intro to Rumba Flamenco.
Seminar fee:
In advance: $25.00 each or $40.00 for both
$30.00 each at door
Get your tickets HERE
Step Up Music Vallejo, 1716 Sonoma Boulevard, Vallejo CA 94590
11.00 to 12:30pm
Muriel Anderson: Creating your own techniques - Explore the possibilities of the fingerboard and musical expression on the guitar.
12:30pm to 2.00pm
Raughi Ebert of Tierra Negra's Easy Spanish techniques that sound cool! Intro to Rumba Flamenco.
Seminar fee:
In advance: $25.00 each or $40.00 for both
$30.00 each at door
Get your tickets HERE
Step Up Music Vallejo, 1716 Sonoma Boulevard, Vallejo CA 94590
Times-Herald (Vallejo, CA)
May 14, 2011
Section:Art Article ID:18063570Strings Attached
/ By Paul Freeman
When renowned acoustic guitarist Muriel Anderson performs, she's reaching people on a fundamental level.
"Life is made up of vibrations," Anderson said, "and those vibrations use the same properties and same rules that the vibrations of a string in harmonic sequence do. So, when we are playing with those vibrations in such an intimate way, we're connecting with the same properties that are apparent in the physics of what makes up life.When the music is part of the player and vice versa, people can feel that and connect with it."
When Anderson delivers a workshop atStep Up Music Vallejo on May 21, she'll share the stage with fellow guitarist Raughi Ebert of Tierra Negra.
Anderson and Germany's Tierra Negra duo have an exhilarating new album, "New World Flamenco."
"The duo has been influenced most by the Gypsies in the south of France, that style of flamenco," Anderson explained.
Step Up is operated by bass player Ariane Cap, who performs with Tierra Negra.
"She's got a lot of energy. It's going to be exciting," Anderson said.
As her numerous recordings demonstrate, Anderson is equally adept at folk, pop, classical, jazz, world and bluegrass guitar. Categorization is irrelevant to her music.
"I don't consciously go after crossing the lines," she said, "but I play the music that makes me happy. And that music changes over time. As with every artist, the music starts becoming part of the person and vice versa. In getting to the heart of the music, we don't need those stylistic barriers. We use the music that's available to us to express ourselves fully."
Anderson also works at finding new sounds on her guitars.
"I've always been interested in that. When I first started guitar, when I was 8 years old, I remember sitting outside, listening to the crickets, scraping the strings in different ways, trying to get the sound of the crickets and play together with them," Anderson related, laughing.
She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Her grandfather had played saxophone in John Philip Sousa's band. "I thought that being a professional musician was the coolest thing that anyone could do," she said.
After the crickets, inspiration came from Doc Watson, Bill Monroe and Pat Metheny. Anderson heard music in her head and began composing early.
"I'd have to run home from school to get my guitar and capture what I was hearing."
In college, Anderson expanded her composing knowledge and, to major in guitar, had to focus on classical style.
"I ended up learning a lot from it and really falling in love with the techniques, the attention to detail, the beautiful phrasing and tone that you can coax out of the instrument."
Anderson became the first woman to win the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship.
"It was helpful in the respect that, before that, if I had my picture in the paper, it would sometimes say,'singer-songwriter,' because there weren't a lot of women guitarists playing at a high level. So people just assumed that, if I had a guitar in my hand, I must be a singer.
After that, being able to put 'National Guitar Champion,' that kind of says what it needs to say."
Anderson is also a virtuoso on the guitar-harp, a unique hybrid instrument with extra, open strings to enrich the sound. What she can conjure with this instrument is pure magic.
"It takes a while to get used to the reach of the thumb, to know where the bass notes are, and then to find out where the extra notes really help the music and where you just want to stay on the guitar part.
Everything is always in service of the music and you don't have to feel that you have to use all 13 or all 21 strings at the same time.
"It fits really nicely with some of Raughi's music, too. The combination of the harp-guitar with flamenco is surprising."
Through her creativity, Anderson is having a positive impact. "I'd like to leave the world a better place. Music connects with the spirit. It really puts you in touch with the deeper aspects of who we are as people."
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If you go ...
What: Muriel Anderson with Raughi Ebert of Tierra Negra
Where:Step Up Music Vallejo, 1716 Sonoma Blvd.
When: May 21, 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Tickets:
Info: (707) 647-3050, stepupmusicvallejo.com
Artist Website: www.murielanderson.com
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