| | Excellent Online Casinos News Archive| Joe Satriani Treats Fans to Ned Evett"s Glass-guitar Experience | | | Publication Date: 10 Oct 2004 | | | October 9, 2004 -- Singer-songwriter Ned Evett is taking his
fretless glass-guitar experience back out on the road with Joe
Satriani again, opening seven concerts for the Grammy-nominated
guitar virtuoso in Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Beginning this evening, Evett is joining the tour -- which Satriani
is undertaking to promote his latest album, "Is There Love In
Space" -- for performances in: - Fort Meyers, Fla. -- Thursday,
Oct. 7, at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall - Orlando, Fla.
-- Friday, Oct. 8, at the House of Blues - West Palm Beach, Fla. --
Saturday, Oct. 9, at the Pompono Beach Amphitheater - Clearwater,
Fla.-Monday, Oct. 11, at Ruth Eckerd Hall - Jacksonville, Fla. --
Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the Florida Theatre - Raleigh, NC --
Wednesday, Oct. 13, at the Lincoln Theatre - Glenside, PA --
Thursday, Oct. 14, at the Keswick Theatre Evett -- who opened 30
U.S. and U.K. shows for Satriani in 2002 and 2003 -- is one of one
of the world's foremost masters of the fretless guitar, a close
relative of the slide guitar that lacks the interposing frets set
across a traditional guitar's fingerboard. He pushes his
instruments further by equipping them with custom mirrored-glass
fretless fingerboards -- a sonic and visual trademark that has
earned Evett the moniker "the glass guitarist." The tonal qualities
of the glass affect the sound, plus light seems to dance from the
instrument as Evett performs onstage -- an experience
CreativeMusicWorks.org says is "like listening to a waterfall on
fire." Like Satriani, Evett is touring to promote a new album,
"iStole," released this summer by Empty Beach Records, an indie
label based in Sun Valley, Idaho. His new CD, which is getting
airplay on about 200 college and AAA radion stations nationwide,
fuses catchy pop songwriting with the skillful fretless-guitar work
that earned Evett the gold at the 2003 North American Rock Guitar
Competition. Evett has also recently toured with such legendary
guitarists as Eric Johnson and Jonny Lang, and his music is
gathering increasing acclaim. His victory at the rock guitar
competition was chronicled nationwide this summer on PBS Television
in the documentary film "Driven To Play," and his first solo
record, "An Introduction to Fretless Guitar," was recently featured
on NPR's "All Songs Considered" online music show. Guitar One
magazine says, "Ned's command of the fretless guitar is
astonishing," and Fingerstyle Guitar magazine even claims he "will
make you rethink the plucked-string instrument." Evett is often
compared to artists like John Mayer, Ben Harper, and Chris Whitley,
whose records dynamically blend pop songwriting with noteworthy
guitar performances, and Guitarist magazine says "Ned's
Kravitz-style voice helps to pull the often left-field fretless
movement into the more listenable mainstream." Satriani is
considerably impressed, as well, and says, "Ned plays a
mirrored-glass fingerboard in a completely new and exciting way.
When you see him do it, you just have to bow down and say, 'Oh my
god, I can't believe somebody can do that.' But it's only part of
what he does. I think the larger part of what he does is
songwriting and his unique style of performing. And then, all the
time, you're going, 'Wait a minute. He's doing that without any
frets. That's pretty cool.'" |
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