Richard Smith and Julie Adams in Concert March 7, 2009

Rochester Guitar Club music event in March
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> Guitar/Cello duo Richard Smith and Julie Adams will be in Rochester
> the first weekend in March for a concert and guitar workshop.

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> Events:
> • Saturday, March 7, 2009 8 PM Guitar/Cello duo Richard Smith and
> Julie Adams at Harmony House, 58 East Main St Webster, NY presented
> by Rochester Guitar Club. For ticket pre-sales, ($17 in advance, $20
> at the door) please contact:RochesterGuitarClub.com or @
> 585-264-0848.
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> • Sunday, March 8 WORKSHOP: 11:00 AM. RGC presents a Richard Smith
> guitar workshop at Lehmann Stringed Instruments, 34 Elton St.
> Workshop seating is limited to fifteen. Advance purchase recommended.
> For ticket presales ($20) please contact:RochesterGuitarClub.com or @
> 585-264-0848. or Lehmann Strings @ 585-461-2117.
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> Background:
> Richard Smith and Julie Adams are part of a new breed of players who
> started young, developed great performance skills, and went on to
> absorb a huge swath of folk, popular and classical music tradition.
> Their explorations on fingerstyle guitar and cello embrace musical
> Americana and stretch the boundaries to the delight of audiences world
> wide. At age five Richard Smith picked up a guitar, asked his Dad to
> teach him Chet Atkin's "Down South Blues", and by age eleven Richard
> was on stage with Chet Atkins playing at Her Majesty's Royal Theater
> in London. 20 years later in 2001 Richard Smith took first place in
> the prestigious Walnut Valley National Fingerpicking Championship
> Contest.
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> Julie Adams is a Nashville session player who leads the double life
> of classical performer and folk musician. You may have heard her
> performing "Beautiful Dreamer" with Suzy Bogguss on the 2005 Folk
> Album Of the Year Grammy Winner. She was classically trained at the
> Interlockhen Center For The Arts and the Cincinnati Conservatory. Of
> interest, Smith & Adams played recently with the Mormon Tabernacle
> Choir. Imagine that backup band! Smith & Adams are making a stop for
> this Rochester Guitar Club concert while on tour between the Syracuse
> Guitar League and Toronto Guitar Society.