If you're in the greater Chicago area, before your holiday season gets too full you'll want to mark or your calendar a terrific concert opportunity, JazzMando senior mentor Don Stiernberg with Grammy award winning dobro player Stacy Phillips in an evening of acoustic Americana/jazz/bluegrass music. An internationally-acclaimed resonator guitarist and violin player, Phillips has performed with the top acoustic musicians over the world. Featured artist on the Grammy award-winning album "The Great Dobro Sessions," he has also released three solo albums as well as over 25 books and DVD's on various aspects of of both fiddle and resophonic guitar.

Don is, well... "The Don!"

Chicago's hardest working mandolin/multi-instrumentalist, Don Stiernberg has taken his years of Jethro tutelage and forged his own unique signature mandolin sound, now inarguably of the greatest jazz mandolinists on the planet today. We've reviewed several of his CDs in our Artist Recordings, and can hardly mention Don's name without a gripping sense of reverence.

The concert, Wednesday, December 17, 2008, at the Society for the Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Illinois, Tickets are $15 and the concert begins at 8:00 PM.

EVENT WEBSITE: S.P.A.C.E.

Check out some of the amazing exclusive recordings Don did for us on the "Getting Into Jazz Mandolin" book CD tracks. (Two of the songs here are bonus tracks, not found on the CD!)

ARTIST INFO:
Stacy Phillips
Don Stiernberg

Posted by Ted at November 27, 2008 6:48 AM