Baptist Church, Pershore.

Fri 13 NovDoors 19:00

Workestra - Guitar Circle in Concert

Baptist Church · Pershore

For One Night Only, 9 members of the legendary Guitar Circle will convene in Pershore to perform for your delectation. Guitar Craft (GC) was a series of guitar and personal-development classes, founded in the 1980s and often presented by Robert Fripp, who is best known for his work with the rock band King Crimson. Guitar Craft courses introduced students to new standard tuning and ergonomic playing with the plectrum (pick), often using steel-stringed, acoustic, shallow-body guitars from the Ovation Guitar Company. By 2011, three thousand students had completed the courses. After 25 years, the Guitar Craft movement transformed its activities into Guitar Circles, which offer introductory courses and performances in Europe and the Americas. WORKESTRA is the performance team at GUITAR WORK - an international community of guitarists aiming to “develop a relationship with the guitar, with music and with ourselves” . Their experience comes from 30 years of ongoing participation and learning in the Guitar Craft seminars, and as members of the international group The League of Crafty Guitarists. For this concert they will joined by local pianist and improvising musician Chris Long, who...

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