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Mark Sganga Trio - Jazz At Warwick Village Courtyard! at Grappa Ristorante
Courtesy of Alexandria Evans | Posted on May 30, 2019
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Thu, May 30, 2019
7:00 pm
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Int'l Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Mark Sganga brings bassist Sue Williams and drummer Karl Latham to the Village Courtyard at Grappa Ristorante. Presented by the Village Courtyard Music Series - https://www.courtyardmusicny.com/.
(In the case of uncooperative weather, the performance will move indoors at Grappa Ristorante)
Mark Sganga is a virtuoso guitarist who has enthralled audiences from Stockholm to Kuala Lumpur to the Thredbo Jazz Festival in Australia. His fingerstyle guitar playing fuses influences from South America & around the world creating an entrancing travelogue, as an instrumentalist, bandleader, & singer/songwriter. Mark has been featured on tours & recordings w/ Indian violin virtuoso Dr. L. Subramaniam, alongside Larry Coryell & Herbie Hancock. He has played opposite the legendary Taj Mahal & Les Paul among other greats. Most recently, Mark Sganga & his Trio performed opposite Bernie Williams and the Bernie Williams Collective. He is a repeat featured performer & judge at The Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Competition as well as a main-stage performer at the venerable Walnut Valley Festival in Wichita, KS where Mark won first place in the 2009 International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition....