Candyrat Guitar Night feat. Stefano Barone, Craig D'Andrea, Sergio Altamura, and Pino Forastiere

Saturday May 5, 2012 @ 8:00 PM

Stefano Barone -

Stefano was born in Naples, Italy. Stefano Barone's debut CD features entirely original compositions, ranging from the funk of Spankie to the intimate melodies of The Return, to tracks of more complex execution and performance like Metronix, Batman, Alexander Supertramp and Minimalaction, a composition for 12 guitars which he usually perform live with the help of a multitrack machine.

Craig D'Andrea -

Craig Dandrea has released three solo CDs in the last five years and his growing fan base has driven his YouTube video views up over the 2 million view mark. A past winner of the Canadian Guitar Festival contest and a peer to Andy McKee and Antoine Dufour both of which he has toured with in the U.S. and internationally.

Pino Forastiere

The music of Italian guitarist Pino Forastiere comes from a solid classical, contemporary and rock background, and it's hard to be defined. He employes a dazzling blend of slapping, tapping, strumming, altered tunings and harmonics, combined with classical phrasing and a focus on distinct and addictive melodies (Anil Prasad, Guitar Player).

Sergio Altamura www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaGwblJJH8Y

In a long career which began in 1985 as a teenager member of a rock band, Sergio has experimented with almost everything. During the '90s Sergio focuses his work on steel-string guitar, performing live in Italy and Europe; in 1998 works on the Ark Ensemble project, an Italian modern quartet exploring the sound possibilities of each instrument of the group. His first solo guitar album, Blu, was produced in 2004 by the Grammy winner and founder of Windham Hill Records William Ackerman; his new solo project, Aria Meccanica (CandyRat Records, 2009) is a conceptual worka fascinating trip into all the possible sonorities created on the guitar: loops, vocals, percussion, objects, and live electronics are wisely melded into a poetic vision.

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