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Event
Bill Mize in Concert
Tennessee fingerstyle guitarist Bill Mize will perform in concert in support of his latest CD release "The Back of Beyond", an homage to his East Tennessee roots:
Location: Crystal Theater, Missoula, MT
Date: Saturday January 10th, 2015
Time: 7:30 pm
Contact info: mail "AT" billmize.com
Website: www.billmize.com
Tickets on sale 12/19 at Rockin Rudys and billmize.com
Grammy-winning guitarist Bill Mize is a son of Tennessee, and a more fitting representative of his state's rich musical heritage would be hard to find. His critically lauded fingerstyle compositions are fluid and intricate, and their delivery masterful. One suspects an influential teacher, and one would be right. "I received most of my musical education from a cheap Zenith radio," says Mize, who as a child drifted off to sleep to the decidedly non-sleepy lullabies emanating from Nashville's WLAC and WSM and Knoxville's WNOX.
Maybe that's why critics speak of his ability to "transport" the listener; the music itself has been transported. The links to his Tennessee roots are unmistakable, but so are the elements of the far wider musical realm he inhabits, and the mixture is as intoxicating as Tennessee moonshine. With a twist.
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Bill is a past winner of the National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Guitar Player Magazine has labeled this event the "U.S. Open of guitar competitions." Bill received a GRAMMY Award for his collaboration with musician and storyteller David Holt on the recording Stellaluna, and has been featured on the popular guitar compilations "Windham Hill Guitar Sampler" by Windham Hill Records and "Masters of the Acoustic Guitar" by Narada Records. In 2009, Bill's music appeared in the Ken Burns documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." Mel Bay Productions transcribed Mize's second CD, "Tender Explorations," into a songbook, and his original compositions have been transcribed for Fingerstyle Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines.
"Essential Acoustic Album - 2010"
-Acoustic Guitar Magazine
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"... An amazing touch, killer tone and a sense of taste that can't be beat."
-Vintage Guitar Magazine
Dale Miller of Acoustic Guitar Magazine writes "...Mize's tone is lovely and his technique is state-of-the-art. He combines form and substance to create music so sublime and accessible I was almost sighing out loud."
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Stephen Ide of Dirty Linen Magazine writes "... To call Mize guitar maestro would be understating his ability to transport listeners beyond what most guitarists can only hope to accomplish."
www.billmize.com
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Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCt4K0caApM - Music City Roots, Nashville 2012
http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=WK7wKONgl7Q
http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=-lGybruUnzk&feature=relmfu
http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=trkj5u4B0dY&feature=related
Reviews/Interviews Links: http://www.acguitar.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=26095&page=2#tejagerken (Acoustic Guitar Magazine) http://guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2011/01/02/interview-with-acoustic-guitarist-bill-mize/
(Guitar International)
http://www.minor7th.com/m7_10_10.html#Mize2 (Minor 7th Magazine) http://blog.davewalkermusic.com/?p=1099 (Canadian Fingerstyle News)
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LocationCrystal Theater, Missoula, Montana (View)
515 S. Higgins Avenue
Missoula, MT 59801
United States
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