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Guitar Festival
- Day Two
The highlight of today’s programme at the Lewes Guitar
Festival (8pm, All Saints, £12/£10) is the woman
one French magazine dubbed ‘The Empress of Pipa’,
Liu Fang. The pipa is a pear-shaped four-stringed instrument
used in Chinese classical and folkloric music. Fang, brought
up in China but nowadays a Montreal resident, was a child
prodigy who has been performing publicly since the age of
nine. The 32-year old musician, who has developed a unique
style fusing influences from both east and west, also plays
the guzheng, a type of Chinese zither.
Earlier in the evening (5.15pm, Pelham House, £5) you’ve
got the chance to see the popular bluesy British acoustic
guitarist Clive Caroll. Caroll has a brilliant reputation,
having toured around the world (this year alone he has played
in Canada, Austria, the United States and Italy) and produced
two popular albums, The Red Guitar and Sixth Sense. The free
lunchtime concert in the castle garden today (1pm) features
Mary Flower, one of America’s top fingerstyle blues
guitarists. Last year Flower made an LP dedicated to the music
of the city of New Orleans, which she recorded in the spring
and released two weeks after the city was devastated so dramatically
by Hurricane Katrina. AL |
