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Sunday July 27 2025 at Sidestage - 700 Osborne Street Pierre Bensusan One Guitar, One Voice 50th anniversaryTickets $35 in advance Doors 6PMMusic 7PM PIERRE BENSUSAN50 th ANNIVERSARYONE GUITAR ONE VOICE Its Like The Guitar Has Been Given Free Reign To Play Itself! After releasing Azwan, an album about our oneness andinterconnectivity in the midst of a unifying global crisis, French-Algerianguitarist, vocalist and composer, Pierre Bensusan is celebrating the 50 thanniversary of his career.When Michael Hedges titles one of his compositions Bensusan, youknow that the inspiration behind it must be special and Pierre Bensusancertainly is. Guitarists from Leo Kottke to Larry Corryel, to Tuck Andress,Tommy Emmanuel, Mark Knopfler, Julian Lage, Andrew York, AndyTimmons, to Steve Lukather have sung his praises, and Steve Vaireleased three Bensusan albums on his label Favored Nations. And itsnot just guitarists who are so inspired by Pierres music, as arecent studio collaboration with him on Donny Osmonds latest albumStart Again goes to show. If World Music means the fusion of traditional, contemporary, jazz,classical and pop music, then Bensusan is one of the most eloquentWorld Music musicians of our time. A pianist in his beginnings then self-taught on the guitar, the originality of his style makes him one of todaysgreatest guitarists and composers for the instrument. Also called ThePrince of DADGAD, his story is far from trivial and it is on stage that thisartist has earned his stripes: among others, the Rose dOr of theMontreux Festival, and being elected Best Guitarist of World Music bythe readers of Guitar Player Magazine! His triple album Encore won theGrand Prix of the Independent Music Awards in the category Best LiveAlbum... Since his first performances in 1974 in France, the guitarist hassold half a million albums and given thousands of concerts around theglobe, both solo and through numerous collaborations. Pierre Bensusan is an adventurer of unusual lands. His almost sacredmusic is an intimate and orchestral hymn, a solo crossing on a multi-shellLowden guitar subjected to the natural elements with sound moleculesand finger pulp on an ebony fingerboard for open tuning - an unique andtransparent technique, under the fingers of an adventurous pilgrim.