BEPPE GAMBETTA

Cancelled due to visa issues | Born in Genoa, Italy, Beppe Gambetta has been widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s foremost guitarists, and a dazzling master of American idioms. But if you really want to understand the musical universe of Beppe Gambetta, start with the smile.
 
Open and disarming, contagious and irresistible, it’s an invitation to a musical journey characterized by lightness of heart and curiosity. Like any good traveler, Gambetta knows that the most memorable journeys are those that take us where we never expected to be.
 
With the horizon line serving as both challenge and attraction, Beppe has spent years assembling his personal mosaic of sounds and flavors. After 10 CDs, four DVDs, four instructional books, and collaborations with top-flight musicians around the globe, he’s rightfully recognized as a master innovator on the acoustic guitar. Yet it’s not just his skills that attract fans and critics, but his unique roots: a fiercely accomplished — and knowledgeable — Italian musician who’s fallen head over heels in love with American country and bluegrass.
 
Beppe’s most recent CD, Rendez-vous, was released in late 2008 on Gadfly Records. The new CD, made up of original duets, includes a stunning lead-off track with Patty Larkin. It ends with a lullaby that Gambetta composed and dedicated to his mother, and that he performs with his accordionist son. Once again, the flat-picking maestro proves that he’s a world-class musician — one who possesses an extraordinary sense of melody, remarkable technical ingenuity and a rare open-heartedness.
 
Often compared to Leo Kottke, Tony Rice and Michael Hedges, Beppe Gambetta has taken his smile and traversed the world, dazzling and charming music enthusiasts everywhere.