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JONNY LANG
"Live... by request"
Opening Act: Moreland and Arbuckle

Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso Jonny Lang returns to Beaver Creek as a part of his “Live… By Request” tour, which allows fans to log on to Lang’s website (jonnylang.com) and request songs for him to perform live at the VPAC.

Lang’s music is a cool blend of blues, rock, zydeco-tinged gospel and jazz.   A professional musician since age 12, Lang’s career began with The Bad Medicine Blues Band,  the group who inspired him to learn guitar.  While kids his age were still playing high school gigs, Lang was touring with giants like The Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, BB King and Sting. Lang released the critically acclaimed multi-platinum Lie to Me in 1997. The next album, Wander this World was released the following year and earned a Grammy nomination. Lang's 2006 release, the gospel-influenced Turn Around, won him his first Grammy Award.
 

US News and World Report says that Lang has “the voice of a grizzled blues veteran… and guitar skills to match.”

ABOUT OPENING ACT MORELAND AND ARBUCKLE:
Guitarist Aaron Moreland and harpist/vocalist Dustin Arbuckle have spent nearly a decade exploring the edges of American roots music. In the process – with help from the driving beat of drummer Brad Horner – Moreland & Arbuckle have forged a relentless and haunting sound that merges Delta blues, folk, rock, traditional country, soul and numerous other echoes and murmurs from an infinitely layered musical narrative that spans more than a century.

“It’s hard to say exactly what we are and what we do,” says Arbuckle. “Blues is definitely at the core, but we’re huge fans of all sorts of American music, and all of that comes through as well. Obviously, there are elements of traditional country in what we do, elements of vintage rock and roll, soul and all that sort of stuff. We always try to stay grounded in that traditional blues center, and at the same time branch out and do as many different things as we can while still keeping it consistent with the sound we’ve developed.”

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Jonny Lang: "Live... by request."

Date: July 22, 2010
Time: 8PM
Location: Vilar Performing Arts Center
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