2nd Show Added for Friday, June 6!
The MACC will be collecting donations for the Maui Food Bank during this event. We ask that our patrons bring non-perishable items for those impacted by the wildfires. Donation bins will be located near the MACC's main entry gates.
Guitar icon Tommy Emmanuel C.G.P. is no stranger to iconic stages from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to London’s Royal Festival Hall and Paris’ L’Olympia. The legendary entertainer has dazzled audiences across the world.
His latest album, Live at the Sydney Opera House, will be released in March. Tommy performed two spellbinding shows on the Concert Hall stage in May 2023, with the best of both performances represented on the new album. Tommy has a Grammy Award, multiple ARIA Awards and countless accolades, but nothing means more to him than the three letters guitarist legend Chet Atkins designated at the end of Tommy’s name: C.G.P. The title of Certified Guitar Player was the highest honor Atkins could bestow on another player – a signifier that the recipient had not only mastered the instrument but taken it to new vistas and become a guiding light for the next generation.
As a songwriter and a performer, Tommy is a melting pot of influences across genres, from pop to bluegrass and jazz to Rock & Roll. To him, music is rhythm and emotion, all other distinctions are meaningless. Anyone who has seen Tommy play will claim that the vocalist is there, as is the drummer, the bass player and the rhythm and lead guitarists and in a way that must be seen to be believed. Tommy plays all the parts of a full band simultaneously, his fingers dancing around the fretboard with a dexterity and speed that would seem impossible if one wasn’t actually witnessing it.
Tommy’s determination to entertain and move audiences through the power of music, remains undimmed as he closes in on his seventh decade as a performer.
