The “Church on the Hill” concert series, sponsored by the Berkeley Springs Presbyterian Church, will be presenting Fingerstyle Guitarist/Composer Michael DeLalla on Sunday July13 at 3pm. The concert is free and open to the public, a free will offering will be taken.
DeLalla is no stranger to the area—he spent thirty years living and performing through the Shenandoah Valley, including many concerts throughout the eastern panhandle. Now living in Colorado, he will be returning to the area to teach a guitar workshop and perform concerts in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC and New York.
Over a long and storied career, the guitarist and composer has been serving up a delicious brew of his solo guitar compositions and arrangements drawn on musical traditions gathered worldwide, steeped with his classical training and seasoned with his jazz, and folk influences. His fluency on classical, 12-string, and steel-string acoustic guitar showcases gifted improvisation and dazzling technical facility that never sacrifices the richness and poignancy of his compositions. He celebrates his multi-cultural musical habitats in a variety of settings, from a capella kan e diskan in Breton Gaelic, to evocations of Japanese koto music and the North African o’ud, to tweaking the nose of the classical music world with his raucous "Piece for Steel Drum (If I Played Steel Drum)" to his double homage to Benjamin Britten and Thelonious Monk (“Nocturnal Scenes ‘Round About Midnight”).
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