A Special Workshop with Raul Mid—n and Lionel Loueke at Philly Joe's

A special presentation from leading guitarist, composer-performers Raul Mid—n and Lionel Loueke! Topics covered include songwriting/composition, their unique approaches to guitar playing, collaborations, advice and insights into the music business and making a living in music, and a Q&A section. Heralded as a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus, (NY Times) Raul Mid—n has collaborated with such heroes as Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Jason Mraz, Queen Latifah and Snoop Dogg. Blind since birth, Mid—n produced-engineered his 2017 album, Bad Ass and Blind, using special computer software for the blind...

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A special presentation from leading guitarist, composer-performers Raul Mid—n and Lionel Loueke! Topics covered include songwriting/composition, their unique approaches to guitar playing, collaborations, advice and insights into the music business and making a living in music, and a Q&A section. Heralded as a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus, (NY Times) Raul Mid—n has collaborated with such heroes as Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Jason Mraz, Queen Latifah and Snoop Dogg. Blind since birth, Mid—n produced-engineered his 2017 album, Bad Ass and Blind, using special computer software for the blind. The album, which confronts the challenges of his blindness with verve and grace, received a 2018 Grammy nomination in the category Best Jazz Vocal Album. Mid—nÕs 2018 follow up release, If You Really Want, featuring the Metropole Orkest under the direction of Vince Mendoza, was nominated for a 2019 Grammy award in this same category. Benin guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke has received critical acclaim from both his idols and contemporaries on his latest release, The Journey. Paul Simon raves that Loueke is one of a rare handful of guitarists that move effortlessly between his West African roots and modern American Jazz, and Sting cites Loueke as one the most original, essential and inspiring musicians on our planet today. As a Blue Note Recording artist and member of Herbie HancockÕs band for the past 10 years, Loueke has recorded and toured with artists as unique and varied as Terence Blanchard to singers Angelique Kidjo and Luciana Souza. Praised by Herbie Hancock as a musical painter, Loueke combines harmonic complexity, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African folk forms, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own.

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