Soft Abuse presents: Peter Walker + Paul Metzger at Icehouse

From Los Angeles, California

Only Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar

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From last.fm:

Peter Walker is an American guitarist playing in the popular-folk tradition. He first gained recognition in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the Sixties before recording two albums in the mid-to-late sixties described as American folk-raga. He has studied with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, and was Dr. Timothy Leary's musical director. In recent years, he has become more interested in and reflective of Spanish Flamenco styles. Peter Walker on Last.fm.

From St Paul

First show since since September 28, 2014 • First Icehouse show since October 24, 2012 • 28th show on MN Live's calendar since April 7, 2007

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From last.fm:

In 1979, Paul Metzger drilled a few innocent holes into a Yamaha acoustic guitar. A self taught musician with 5 years of playing behind him, Metzger was growing tired of the conventions of the instrument. This lobotomy was the first of many surgeries that would follow in years to come. Strings were added, subtracted, added again; the frets of the neck were disemboweled and retrofitted with a sarod like metal fingerboard plate; paint was splattered over it, a rejigged music box was affixed to the guitar's belly, a crash cymbal mounted to its bottom. Read more about Paul Metzger on Last.fm.