NY Guitar Fest 22 ft Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, William Tyler, Vieux Farka Touré + More | June 14-17 @ The Greene Space

New York Guitar Festival Announces 2022 Line-Up ft. Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, William Tyler, Vieux Farka Touré, + More Read the Brooklyn Vegan Feature Taking Place on June 14th-17th at The Greene Space, WNYC's Multimedia Performance Venue in Soho STREAM & SHARE: New York Guitar Festival 2022 Tues, June 14 | Wed, June 15 | Thurs, June 16 | Fri, June 17 “THIS GUITAR MARATHON STRIKES ALL THE RIGHT CHORDS.” - New York Post "LEGENDARY. DON’T MISS." - NBC New York “Turned the Big Apple into Guitartown, USA” - Guitar Player Magazine "A veritable guitar orgy.” - Jazz Times "A series that examines virtually every aspect of the guitar's musical personality.” - The NY Times "A comprehensive celebration of all things picked, plucked and strummed...a guitar hound’s paradise” - Time Out New York "Fret heads from around the world will converge...for a series of concerts and concluding marathon devoted to the most important instrument of the 20th century’s back end." - The Village Voice

The 2022 New York Guitar Festival Returns To Live, In-Person Performances! After two years in the wilderness of online streaming, we here at the New York Guitar Festival couldn’t contain ourselves when it came to this year’s return to live music-making. And so. we’re presenting a genre-spanning, globetrotting series of shows in The Greene Space, WNYC’s multimedia performance venue in Soho.  Four nights, from June 14 to 17, featuring some of today’s most dazzling guitar talents, including Bill Frisell, Vieux Farka Toure, and Marta Pereira da Costa. And representing such exotic locales as West Africa, Brazil, and whatever astral plane Vernon Reid & Laraaji occupy.  It’s like a blast from the Before Times, when the annual NYGF could present legends of the classical guitar like Pepe Romero alongside rock heroes like Andy Summers and blues greats like Taj Mahal.  Since its founding in 1999 by David Spelman, the Artistic Director of the festival, and WNYC’s John Schaefer, host of the “New Sounds” radio series, the NYGF has taken advantage of the instrument’s unique ability to find a way into almost every kind of music we make.  That includes places where you expect to find the guitar – Glenn Jones, for example, keeps alive the tradition of the path-breaking American folk guitarist John Fahey – and places where you don’t, as in the contemporary post-Minimalist music of Gyan Riley.  So whether you’re a fan of William Tyler’s cosmic brand of country/folk or Badi Assad’s Brazilian-inflected jazz/pop, we’ve got a guitarist for you.  A bunch of them, in fact.  Two a night for four nights of live, in-person, in-front-of-real-people guitar playing.    DAY-BY-DAY SCHEDULE   Tuesday, June 14, 7:30 PM: Glenn Jones, Vieux Farka Toure Wednesday, June 15, 7:30 PM: Gyan Riley, Bill Frisell, & Luke Bergman. Thursday, June 16, 7:30 PM: Badi Assad, Vernon Reid, & Laraaji Friday, June 17, 7:30 PM: Marta Pereira da Costa, William Tyler LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS YEAR'S LINE-UP