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On June 12\u201313, Warsaw, a 1,000-capacity performance space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (261 Driggs Avenue), and the LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park will host the inaugural Brooklyn Guitar Festival, a new two-day event featuring six-string legends alongside some of the instrument\u2019s fastest-rising stars.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfad NEW! Brooklyn Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n
The festival will kick off with evening concerts on Friday, June 12 at Warsaw and continue on June 13 with a daylong program at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside.<\/p>\n
The premiere lineup was curated by two of the festival\u2019s New York City-based performers: Alex Skolnick<\/a>, a metal and jazz guitarist best known as lead guitarist of thrash-metal pioneers Testament, and Joel Harrison, a genre-blurring veteran of the New York scene and founder of the Alternative Guitar Summit and its companion camp.<\/p>\n The curators aimed to highlight the full expressive range of the instrument. \u201cCelebrate the instrument\u2019s range\u2014not only the sheer power and velocity that a guitar can put forth, but the intimacy and the interplay,\u201d Harrison said, noting a focus on honoring influential elder artists while establishing the festival as an annual destination event.<\/p>\n Skolnick added that the lineup represents some of the most accomplished guitarists across styles, calling each performer \u201ca leading light of their respective style.\u201d<\/p>\n Spread across two stages, the lineup will feature full-length sets from jazz guitar icons Al Di Meola, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and Mike Stern, along with Adam Rogers<\/a>. These artists have helped redefine jazz guitar by incorporating elements of rock, funk, Americana, and beyond.<\/p>\n Blues-rock will also be showcased with performances by Eric Gales, Ally Venable, and Jackie Venson, who blends blues-rooted guitar work with contemporary R&B influences.<\/p>\n The festival will also spotlight boundary-pushing artists including Vernon Reid, co-founder of Living Colour; Joel Harrison; and acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Andy McKee, known for his innovative techniques and use of instruments like the harp guitar.<\/p>\n Two tribute concerts will honor guitar legends John Scofield and Jeff Beck<\/a>. The Jeff Beck<\/a> tribute on June 12 will feature Skolnick, Vernon Reid, and Greg Koch, who will also appear in a blues program on June 13.<\/p>\n The Scofield tribute on June 13 will include Bill Frisell, Steve Cardenas, Gilad Hekselman<\/a>, Nir Felder<\/a>, David Gilmore<\/a>, and Lolivone de la Rosa.<\/p>\n Scofield will also perform with his trio on June 12 at Warsaw. Earlier that day, he will lead a master class as part of the festival\u2019s developing educational programming.<\/p>\n The Brooklyn Guitar Festival aims to serve as a wide-ranging celebration of the guitar, highlighting both its history and future while reflecting its deep cultural ties to New York City.<\/p>\n Food and drink will be available during the June 13 performances at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside, provided by Duck Island Cafe & Bar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! Brooklyn Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for Brooklyn & beyond. On June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-188675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}