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Tommy Emmanuel

Outback Concerts

June 27, 2008

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Australian acoustic guitarist and two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel has a professional career that spans over four decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. Tommy's unique style - he calls it simply "finger style" - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all ten fingers. 

Guitar legend Chet Atkins was one of the first to inspire Emmanuel to pick up the guitar as a child. Decades later, Atkins himself became one of Emmanuel's biggest fans. In 1999, Chet honored Tommy Emmanuel with the title of "Certified Guitar Player" for his lifetime contribution to the instrument, a rare honor shared by only three other people in the world (Jerry Reed, Steve Warner and John Knowles). Atkins eventually recorded with Tommy in 1996 on "The Day the Finger Pickers Took Over the World", for which Emmanuel received his first Grammy award nomination. This was also Atkins last recording.

In March, Tommy was voted the best acoustic guitarist in the Guitar Player Readers' Choice Awards. He is in good company with the likes of Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton and Jeff Beck also coming out on top in their categories.

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  Tickets: $27.50-$32.50/ticket; on sale Friday, April 25 at 10:00am

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  Dates:
  June 27, 2008

  Times:
  Friday 8:00pm

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  TPAC - James K. Polk Theater

  505 Deaderick Street Nashville, TN 37219

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