[mplpost] Gig-ON: HARRY MANX

[Lillian Wauthier]

Fiddles & Frets Music Presents: 
Maple Blues Multiple Awards Nominee & Northern Blues Recording Artist:
HARRY MANX

Date: Thurs. Feb. 7th
Where: Hugh's Room-2261 Dundas St. W.
Time: 8:30pm
Admission: $12adv./$14
Info: 416-264-2235/416-531-6604 (tix reserv.)
www.harrymanx.com
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Harry Manx was born on the Isle of Man, immigrated to Canada as a child
and returned to Europe in the late seventies to spend many years working
festivals as a blues lap-slide guitarist/songwriter. He then lived and
performed in Japan for ten years.

In 1990, while Manx was in Japan, he came across a recording of the Indian
slide guitarist V.M. Bhatt. It wasn't long before he contacted Bhatt and
made arrangements to join him in India. Manx became a student of Bhatt's
and remained with him for five years. They traveled together in India and
performed before large audiences.

In the spring of 2000, Manx moved back to Canada and set up residence on
Saltspring Island, in British Columbia. During the summer he recorded his
first Canadian CD at Randy Bachman s Barn Studios. This debut recording
features fourteen tracks of Manx doing his one-man-band sound on the lap
slide guitar, the Mohan Veena (20 stringed Indian guitar), the blues harp
and vocals. The CD is titled Dog My Cat and is available through Festival
Distribution in Canada, Big Daddy Music Distribution in the USA.

Manx's music has been called an essential link between the music of the
East and the West. His songs are short stories that use the essence of
blues and the depth of Indian ragas to draw you in. Quickly gaining
acceptance as one of the slide guitar greats, Manx just came back from his
extremely successful tour of Australia, and will be releasing his next
album, Wise and Otherwise, in April 2002.

"Manx is truly a unique artist who deserves to be heard by a broader
audience; he's breaking new musical ground."    Edmonton Journal, March
2001

"This is an excellent debut CD by a world-class bluesman."    Monday
Magazine, March 2001
  
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Lillian Aida Wauthier 
Acoustic Harvest Folk Club:  http://acousticharvest.cjb.net 
Fiddles and Frets Music
Ontario Council of Folk Festivals
Lillipat - Music for Young Children
Mariposa Folk Foundation
Email: lillianw@interlog.com
Telephone: 416-264-2235/Fax: 264-2168

check out Colin Stewart:   http://colinstewart.cjb.net/

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