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"Guitar Goddesses. Patty Larkin
brings together some of the best women players in the world.”
Boston Globe
" La Guitara successfully delivers the wide spectrum of great
female players on a well-crafted silver platter." Vintage
Guitar
" …a voyage through guitar virtuosity."
Utne
In a ground breaking performance of women guitarists La
Guitara explores the contribution of women to the evolution
of modern guitar. Brain-child of Patty
Larkin, this highly anticipated tour coincides with a
compilation CD, Gender Bending Strings, featuring 14 female
guitarists of varied genres (Vanguard Records). Partial proceeds
will benefit music education.
"The goal of La Guitara is to better define the contribution
of women to the history of modern guitar," explains Ms. Larkin."I
have been asked repeatedly, Why are there no great female guitar
players? The answer is, There are. Demographics are changing
as young girls and women take up the instrument with increasing
dedication and commitment to technique and repertoire. It is my
belief that women guitarists of the past played a part in the evolution
of the instrument and that their story is largely untold. I also
believe that there are women guitarists today who are actively changing
our preconceptions about gender and guitar heroes. This project
is dedicated to these artists, past and present, waiting to be discovered,
needing to be heard."
CD Artists: Wu Man, Sharon Isbin, Patty Larkin, Memphis Minnie,
Mimi Fox, Kaki King, Ellen McIlwaine, Badi Assad, Alex Houghton,
Vicki Genfan, Muriel Anderson, Rory Block, Jennifer Batten, Elizabeth
Cotten
PAC Tour (2007/08): w/ Patty
Larkin, Mimi
Fox, and Rory
Block.
Past Tours (CD-Release
Nov 2005 w/ Patty
Larkin, Kaki
King, Muriel
Anderson and Mimi
Fox; PAC Tour March 2006 w/ Patty
Larkin, Sharon
Isbin and Kaki
King; PAC Tour March 2007 w/ Patty
Larkin, Badi
Assad, and Ellen
McIlwaine.)
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