International Guitar Night January 22, 2010

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT (IGN) on Friday, January 22 at 8pm in the Claire Shulman Playhouse Main Stage Theatre at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY. Tickets are $37 and are available at www.queenstheatre.org or by phone at 718-760-0064.

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT (IGN) started as an impromptu concert in a converted laundromat in San Francisco. Sponsored by Acoustic Guitar Magazine and D’Addario, IGN (North America’s longest running mobile guitar festival) is back and going strong into its tenth year. This year, IGN founder Brian Gore will be joined by Lulo Reinhardt, from Germany, a descendant of the great Django Reinhardt along with Itamar Erez from Israel, and Stephen Bennett from Virginia. This promises to be a spirited evening of solo and collaborative guitar music performed in a number of musical styles.

IGN is the world’s premier touring guitar festival. Each show brings together the most interesting and innovative acoustic guitarists to exchange musical ideas in a public concert setting. Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Audiences cherish the virtuosity of the playing and the friendly, informal ambiance of the performances. Participants relish the chance to play with peers from different genres, and to collaborate rather than compete. This unique brand of “guitar positivity” has helped make IGN the most successful guitar showcase of its kind.