Still River Concerts

Pete Kennedy returns to Still River Concerts to do another solo show and workshop. His solo shows are always interesting, as he takes the audience on a tour of genders and styles, showing off the possible, and seemingly impossible on the guitar, ukelele, mandolin and whatever else he decides to play.

The workshop this time will be

“Six Things that will Improve your Guitar Playing Right Away”. Pete will show you exercises to loosen up your hands, basic open tunings, special chords that sound like open tunings, using the modes, using triads to play all over the neck, and we’ll arrange some ensemble jams. Aimed at intermediate players, any level welcome.

Pete Kennedy is best known as the guitar-intensive half of folk-rock duo The Kennedys, but his experience spans a wide cross section o American music/ he toured the US and Europe extensively with Nanci Griffith, and played an important role in the making of her Grammy-winning CD, “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, sharing the lead guitar duties with Chet Atkins and Leo Kottke.

He also toured for a year with Mary-Chapin Carpenter, and has played with the National Symphony, numerous Broadway road companies, including “Cats” and “Evita”, and was a house musician at legendary roots music club the Birchmere. Having studied with classical guitarist Larry Snitzler and jazz legends Johnny Smith, Joe Pass and Charlie Byrd, Pete is uniquely able to answer just about any question you might have about making the most of your love and enthusiasm for the guitar.