Event

Tony Furtado at West Side Folk 20th Anniversary Concert

Come celebrate 20 years of West Side Folk with this special concert at the gorgeous Cider Gallery in the East Lawrence Arts District. (and with a bar for those of you who would like to indulge!) We're thrilled to have Tony Furtado play at this special event, which we are pricing at a discount over our usual ticket prices to encourage a big turnout for this celebration.
Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef (he's also an accomplished sculptor, but that's another story). All of the music of America is in Tony's music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing of Tony: "True talent doesn't need categories." A two time National Banjo Champion at the walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, Tony then added slide guitar, singing and songwriting to his musical toolbox and began leading his own band. Tony has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival and countless others. "I love playing live," he says. "All my energy is focused on the love of playing music and rolling with the moment. It's a give and take from the audience to the stage, and back. And the music that is created is something that otherwise might not occur without that flow."