


Think about these recordings “New Chautauqua” – a 1979 recording that almost single-handedly defined an era of instrumental steel-stringed “Americana” “Zero Tolerance For Silence” – a shot across the bow of modern music making, the companion piece to parallel the Grammy® winning disc Secret Story The Orchestrion Project, a project so outrageous in conception and execution that even a decade-plus later, it stands apart from any previous ideas of what a solo performer might achieve alone onstage.Īnd then consider and contrast those projects to the two back-to-back Grammy® winning solo Baritone guitar recordings, “One Quiet Night” and “What’s It All About”. "Of course, I always have to take it somewhere else too, which by the end of those performances, I did manage to do (no spoilers here!), but what I have planned for the tour following the release of my new recording Dream Box, is something different for me, focused on the various ways of playing solo I have explored across all these decades in an evening that I think will be very special”. “A few years back, I did a short run of concerts that were not exclusively me and a single guitar, but pretty close. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus. The performance will take place on Wednesday, Sept.

The tour, a first of its kind for Metheny, will feature personal and fan favorites from his nearly 50 year career. The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present 20 time Grammy® Award Winning Guitarist and Composer Pat Metheny, who is launching a solo tour, coinciding with his new album release on BMG Modern Recordings, “ Dream Box”.
