Thursday, March 27, 7:30 PM (7 door): Doug Smith & Radim Zenkl: Two Acoustic Virtuosos, Guitar, Mandolin, Flute, Didgeridoo

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Doug Smith & Radim Zenkl
Two acoustic instruments virtuosos join forces to create an intimate evening of music from different time periods as well as different parts of the globe. The program will feature their original arrangements of world class compositions by Bach, Vivaldi, Orff, O'Carolan and others, combined with their own originals and traditional music.

Doug Smith
Grammy-award winning guitarist and fingerstyle guitar champion Doug Smith has been called “one of the finest acoustic guitarists of his generation”, and “a cross between Chet Atkins, Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke”. His original compositions have been heard everywhere from NPR to Turner Classic Movies and Good Morning America, and he has played on movie soundtracks including the popular film August Rush. In 2005 Doug won a Grammy award for his participation on the tribute CD “Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar”, and in 2006 he won the prestigious Winfield International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition. Doug has shared the stage with guitar luminaries such as Tommy Emmanuel and bluegrass great Jerry Douglas, taught at guitar workshops throughout the country, and toured Japan, Taiwan and  South Korea. He recently released his 12th solo album “Guitar Americana”, and in recently headed to New York and Chicago to play guitar in the Broadway production test run of “August Rush - The Musical.”
https://www.dougsmithguitar.com

Radim Zenkl
- mandolin player, composer and instructor. Originally from the Czech Republic, he moved to USA in 1989. Three years later he won the US National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, KS. He has invented a masterful technique, the “Zenkl style,” in which a single mandolin sounds like two. Besides his solo performances, Radim has been collaborating with the top musicians of the US acoustic music scene and played in a duo setting with artist such as Tim O'Brien, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, Tony Trischka, Chris Thile (in a quartet), Scott Nygaard and others. He has recorded nine CDs, including a CD of improvised duets with Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall and others (Strings & Wings, Shanachie, 1996), and appeared on more than eighty other recordings. Besides the mandolin Radim plays a variety of ethnic flutes from around the world, the Australian didgeridoo and piano. Radim’s worldwide performing and teaching credentials include guest appearances at prestigious music institutions such as the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. His instructional DVD 'Mandolin Primer' was released on Homespun in 2015.
https://www.zenkl.com