This is a General Admission show held in the Main Theater of CSPS Hall. Doors will open 1 hour before showtime.
$25 Advance | $30 Door
Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtadtado embodies Americana roots music.
Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter, and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar, and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef (he's also an accomplished sculptor, but that's another story). All of the music of America is in Tony's music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing of Tony: "True talent doesn't need categories."
A native of Pleasanton, California who now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, Tony Furtado took up the banjo at age 12, inspried by The Beverly Hillbillies television show and a sixth-grade music report. He first sttracted national attention in 1987 when he won the National Bluegrass Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas. Not long after that, Tony opted for the life of a full-time professional musician, joining Laure Lewis & Grant Street. A second victory at Winfield in 1991 bookend hi years with Grant Street.
In 1990, Tony signed a recording deal with Rounder Records, one of the country's preeminent independent record companies. Beginning with Swamped in 1990, he recorded six critically acclaimed albums for the label, collaborating with such master musicians as Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Tim O'Brien, Stuart Duncan, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Mike Marshall. During this period, Tony also performed and recorded with the band SugarBeat and the Rounder Banjo Extravaganze with Tony Trischka and Tom Adams.
Beginning in the late 1990s - influences by such musical heroes as Ry Copper, David Lindley, and Taj Mahal - Tony added slide guitar, singing, and songwriting to his musical toolbox and began leading his own band. He is a tireless road musician who performs in a dizzying variety of formats: solo, in a duo or trio, or with his full five-person band. He especially values the opportunities he has had to tour with such legendary musicians as Gregg Allman and with such esteemed slide guitarists as David Lindley, Derek Trucks, and Sonny Landreth.
Tony has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, High Sierra Musica Festival, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, and countless others.
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