Two-time Grammy-Award winning guitar artist Laurence Juber will close his latest tour with a homecoming concert in Southern California.
Juber will play
8 p.m. Saturday, June 16, 2012, at Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Blvd.,
Culver City. Tickets are $17.50. Juber will also host a two-hour guitar
workshop preceding the concert from 4 to 6 p.m. The cost is $40.
The workshop and
concert appearance closes out a six-month tour, which started in January.
Known for
playing lead guitar in Wings from 1978 to 1981, Juber, known as ‘LJ’, has
since had a distinguished career as a solo finger-style guitarist. A
world-class guitar virtuoso solo artist, composer and arranger, LJ fuses folk,
jazz, and pop styles and creates a dynamic multi-faceted performance that
belies the use of only one instrument.
Laurence has
released 20 acclaimed solo albums since Wings folded, including two volumes on
The Beatles and one on his former group with McCartney. His latest, Soul of Light, is a retrospective
collection of original compositions that span over 30 years of creative work on
solo guitar. All newly recorded, some of these tunes may be familiar from being
heard on TV and radio, while others have been touchstones of the solo guitar.
“I started out
as a composer for solo guitar and I’ve written well over a hundred tunes. The
compositions on Soul of Light reflect
a particular mood – one of romance,” Juber says. “Not only pure love songs, but
also in the sense of using imagination and narrative to expand and transcend
the traditional solo guitar genre. It also serves as a complement to the
blues/jazz direction that my current composing and arranging is taking me.”
As a studio
musician, he can be heard on recent albums from artists as diverse as Barry
Manilow, Al Stewart and Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks. He is also featured on
the soundtracks to hundreds of TV shows and movies including the Academy
Award-winning Good
Will Hunting and Dirty Dancing, the James Bond thriller The Spy Who Love Me and 2011's The Muppets.
For more
information visit:
What: Laurence
Juber
Where: Boulevard
Music, 4316 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City
When: 8
p.m. Saturday, June 16
Cost: $17.50
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