DT: MARCH 21, 2025

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
UNVEILS NEW SINGLE/VIDEO
“WINDY & WARM”
JUST IN TIME FOR SPRING
TAKEN FROM ‘LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE’
OUT TODAY, FRIDAY, MARCH 21
LISTEN TO THE ALBUM HERE
WATCH THE LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO HERE

STREAM THE FILM ‘LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE’ EXCLUSIVELY ON TOMMY EMMANUEL’S WEBSITE
VIEW THE TRAILER HERE

THE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
IS TOURING NORTH AMERICA THROUGHOUT 2025,
WITH AN APPEARANCE SET FOR TONIGHT, MARCH 21
AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY

‘Live At The Sydney Opera House’ Cover Art

Coinciding with springtime, TOMMY EMMANUEL has today (March 21) released the single and video “Windy and Warm” from his album LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE (C.G.P. Sounds), which also has been issued today. Watch the live performance video of the evocative instrumental track, beautifully filmed by Bondi Rocks Media at the Sydney Opera House in his native Australia, HERE. Stream the album HERE.

TOMMY EMMANUEL is an acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, global touring artist, and Grammy® Award winner. He’s also one of five people ever to be named a C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the great innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary.

“‘Windy & Warm’ was the first song I heard by Chet Atkins, and the very first song I learned in thumb and fingerstyle,” says TOMMY. “It was the song that everybody wanted to play but had so much trouble trying to play it. It’s a timeless classic with elements of blues, jazz, and country fused together into an irresistible cocktail of groove!

“With this recording at The Sydney Opera House, I decided to recut this classic song in a much more traditional style, because I messed with it before making it funky and jazzier, so I took it back home! John D. Loudermilk wrote this song especially for Chet to record.”

Also, look for the film LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE streaming exclusively on TOMMY’s website. This film features performance highlights from his sold-out residency at the Sydney Opera House plus a visit to the Maton Guitar Factory, a cruise on Sydney Harbor, and much more. Watch it HERE.

Meanwhile, watch the album’s live performance videos for the first three singles including “The Jolly Swagman,” “Gdansk/Tall Fiddler,” and “Secret Love.”

EMMANUEL 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. But there’s something truly magical about the Sydney Opera House, and the magic of his sold-out performances there has finally been captured on this new EMMANUEL-produced album. It features 16 tracks, four of which are medleys, including his famous “Beatles Medley” (a previous live version of this has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube).

“The moment and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly preserved here on this record,” says TOMMY. “I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship… a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

He played two spellbinding shows on the Concert Hall stage in May 2023, with the best of both performances represented here. The setlist showcases the most beloved songs of TOMMY’s career—classic compositions like “Tall Fiddler,” “Mombasa,” and “Country Wide,” recent fan favorites like “Fuel” and “Sail On,” his now iconic arrangement of “Classical Gas,” and his thrilling “Beatles Medley.”

“As a 15-year-old boy living in Circular Quay, I spent many a time walking past the Opera House,” he says. “I would daydream about what it must be like in there, what it would be like to perform there. After fifty years in the business, we finally got there!”

“Playing the shows for this recording was a dream come true for me,” TOMMY adds. “I felt so ready! I was surrounded by my team of brilliant people, and I was looking into the faces of so many loving and happy fans in the concert Hall. The momentum and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly captured and preserved here on this record. I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship…a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. You can hear his wizardry captured brilliantly on LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE.

Here’s the album’s track listing:

1. Countrywide
2. Fuel
3. The Jolly Swagman
4. Deep River Blues
   -Doc’s Guitar
   -Blue Smoke
   -Cannonball Rag
5. Song for a Rainy Morning
6. Since We Met
7. Secret Love
8. Drums/Mombasa
9. Gdansk
   -Tall Fiddler
10. Smokey Mountain Lullaby
11. Windy & Warm
12. Beatles Medley
    -She’s A Women
    -Please Please Me
    -While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    -Day Tripper
    -Lady Madonna
13. Classical Gas
14. April Sun in Cuba
15. Sail On
16. American Tune
    -Waltzing Matilda

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2025. The full international list of shows is HERE.

March 21 – Nashville, TN – Grand Ole Opry

March 25 – Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Community Auditorium

March 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre

March 27 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place

March 28 – Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre

March 30 – Calgary, AB – The Jak Singer Concert Hall

March 31 – Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre

April 1 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre

April 2 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre for Performing Arts

April 4 – Victoria, BC – Royal Theatre

April 5 – Campbell River, BC – Tidemark Theatre

June 3 – Honolulu, HI – Hawaii Theatre

June 5 – Kahului, HI – McCoy Studio Theater

July 21 – Halifax, NS – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium

July 24 – Waterville, ME – Waterville Opera House

August 14 – Manchester, VT – Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival

August 15 – Homer, NY – Center for the Arts of Homer

August 16 – Homer, NY – Center for the Arts of Homer

October 11 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium

October 14 – Lexington, KY – The Kentucky Theatre

October 15 – Evanston, IL – Cahn Auditorium

October 16 – New Albany, OH – McCoy Center for the Arts

October 17 – Fort Wayne, IN – Clyde Theatre

October 19 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre

October 21 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre

October 23 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre

October 24 – Tarrytown, NY – Tarrytown Music Hall

October 26 – Derry, NH – Tupelo Music Hall

October 28 – Boston, MA – The Wilbur Theatre

October 29 – New Brunswick, NJ – State Theatre New Jersey

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a C.P.G. (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). He has also earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum. A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

For more information on TOMMY EMMANUEL, visit:
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | YOUTUBE

SRO PR Assets + Press Releases:
http://sropr.com/portfolio/tommyemmanuel/

SRO PR: Los Angeles, Nashville, Las Vegas

Mitch Schneider // mschneider@sropr.com
Andrea Faulk // afaulk@sropr.com
Lyndie Wenner // lwenner@sropr.com

DT: FEBRUARY 13, 2025

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
TODAY RELEASES
NEW SINGLE/VIDEO
FOR “SECRET LOVE”
AHEAD OF VALENTINE’S DAY
TAKEN FROM ‘LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE’
OUT MARCH 21
PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE THE ALBUM HERE
LISTEN TO ‘SECRET LOVE” HERE
AND WATCH THE LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO HERE

THE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
IS TOURING NORTH AMERICA THROUGHOUT 2025

‘Live At The Sydney Opera House’ Cover Art

Ahead of Valentine’s Day tomorrow, TOMMY EMMANUEL has today (February 13) released the single and video “Secret Love” from his upcoming album LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE (C.G.P. Sounds) that’s due out March 21. Listen to the instrumental track HERE and watch the live performance video, beautifully filmed by Bondi Rocks Media at the Sydney Opera House in his native Australia, HERE. Pre-order/pre-save the album HERE.

TOMMY EMMANUEL is an acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, global touring artist, and Grammy® Award winner. He’s also one of five people ever to be named a C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the great innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary.

“I’ve loved ‘Secret Love’ since I was six years old,” says TOMMY. “I first heard it as a pop hit on radio, then heard many other versions that kept it in my life. I was looking for a song I could play in my harmonic, almost piano style, and this diamond came back to me.  Hope you enjoy this version—it’s in honor of [the late American-Canadian guitarist] Lenny Breau!!”

“Secret Love” follows the release of the 16-track album’s first two singles/videos: “The Jolly Swagman” and “Gdansk/Tall Fiddler.” Of the latter track and video, Americana UK’s Andrew Frolish wrote:

“It is such a joy to see Tommy Emmanuel work his way around the fret board in ‘Gdansk/Tall Fiddler.’ From around halfway through, his fingers really fly and it’s utterly spellbinding.  Emmanuel’s strumming pattern is delightfully rhythmic, and he plays with incredible precision.  There’s also a lightness of touch and a musical freedom in his melody that the audience at The Sydney Opera House respond to in this live performance video.”

EMMANUEL 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. But there’s something truly magical about the Sydney Opera House, and the magic of his sold-out performances there has finally been captured on this new EMMANUEL-produced album. It features 16 tracks, four of which are medleys, including his famous “Beatles Medley” (a previous live version of this has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube).

“The moment and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly preserved here on this record,” says TOMMY. “I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship… a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

He played two spellbinding shows on the Concert Hall stage in May 2023, with the best of both performances represented here. The setlist showcases the most beloved songs of TOMMY’s career—classic compositions like “Tall Fiddler,” “Mombasa,” and “Country Wide,” recent fan favorites like “Fuel” and “Sail On,” his now iconic arrangement of “Classical Gas,” and his thrilling “Beatles Medley.”

“As a 15-year-old boy living in Circular Quay, I spent many a time walking past the Opera House,” he says. “I would daydream about what it must be like in there, what it would be like to perform there. After fifty years in the business, we finally got there!”

“Playing the shows for this recording was a dream come true for me,” TOMMY adds. “I felt so ready! I was surrounded by my team of brilliant people, and I was looking into the faces of so many loving and happy fans in the concert Hall. The momentum and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly captured and preserved here on this record. I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship…a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. You can hear his wizardry captured brilliantly on LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE.

Here’s the album’s track listing:

1. Countrywide
2. Fuel
3. The Jolly Swagman
4. Deep River Blues
   -Doc’s Guitar
   -Blue Smoke
   -Cannonball Rag
5. Song for a Rainy Morning
6. Since We Met
7. Secret Love
8. Drums/Mombasa
9. Gdansk
   -Tall Fiddler
10. Smokey Mountain Lullaby
11. Windy & Warm
12. Beatles Medley
    -She’s A Women
    -Please Please Me
    -While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    -Day Tripper
    -Lady Madonna
13. Classical Gas
14. April Sun in Cuba
15. Sail On
16. American Tune
    -Waltzing Matilda

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024-25. The full international list of dates is HERE.

2025

March 25 – Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Community Auditorium

March 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre

March 27 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place

March 28 – Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre

March 30 – Calgary, AB – The Jak Singer Concert Hall

March 31 – Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre

April 1 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre

April 2 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre for Performing Arts

April 4 – Victoria, BC – Royal Theatre

April 5 – Campbell River, BC – Tidemark Theatre

July 21 – Halifax, NS – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium

October 11 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a C.P.G. (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). He has also earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum. A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

For more information on TOMMY EMMANUEL, visit:
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | YOUTUBE

SRO PR Assets + Press Releases:
http://sropr.com/portfolio/tommyemmanuel/

SRO PR: Los Angeles, Nashville, Las Vegas
Mitch Schneider // mschneider@sropr.com
Andrea Faulk // afaulk@sropr.com
Lyndie Wenner // lwenner@sropr.com

DT: JANUARY 9, 2025

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
ROLLS OUT NEW SINGLE/VIDEO
FOR “GDANSK/TALL FIDDLER”
FROM ‘LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE’
OUT MARCH 21
PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE THE ALBUM HERE

LISTEN TO THE SONGS HERE
AND WATCH THE LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO HERE

THE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
IS NOW ON THE ROAD WITH
AN ARRAY OF NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

‘Live At The Sydney Opera House’ Cover Art

TOMMY EMMANUEL is an acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, global touring artist, and Grammy® Award winner. He’s also one of five people ever to be named a C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the great innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary.

Today (January 9), TOMMY has unveiled “Gdansk/Tall Fiddler,” two songs combined as one track from his upcoming album LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE (C.G.P. Sounds) that’s due out March 21. Listen to the track HERE and watch the live performance video, beautifully filmed by Bondi Rocks Media at the Sydney Opera House in his native Australia, HERE. Pre-order/pre-save the album HERE.

“Here’s an example of two songs that were written almost 20 years apart that fit quite nicely together,” says TOMMY. “One was written in Poland and the other backstage at a bluegrass festival. What a crazy world we all live in!”

The release of “Gdansk/Tall Fiddler” follows the 16-track album’s first offering last year, “The Jolly Swagman.” “I wrote ‘The Jolly Swagman’ for an imaginary character,” says TOMMY, “who makes us all happy by clicking his heels in the air while playing the concertina!!”

EMMANUEL 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. But there’s something truly magical about the Sydney Opera House, and the magic of his sold-out performances there has finally been captured on this new EMMANUEL-produced album. It features 16 tracks, four of which are medleys, including his famous “Beatles Medley” (a previous live version of this has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube).

“The moment and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly preserved here on this record,” says TOMMY. “I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship… a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

He played two spellbinding shows on the Concert Hall stage in May 2023, with the best of both performances represented here. The setlist showcases the most beloved songs of TOMMY’s career—classic compositions like “Tall Fiddler,” “Mombasa,” and “Country Wide,” recent fan favorites like “Fuel” and “Sail On,” his now iconic arrangement of “Classical Gas,” and his thrilling “Beatles Medley.”

“As a 15-year-old boy living in Circular Quay, I spent many a time walking past the Opera House,” he says. “I would daydream about what it must be like in there, what it would be like to perform there. After fifty years in the business, we finally got there!”

“Playing the shows for this recording was a dream come true for me,” TOMMY adds. “I felt so ready! I was surrounded by my team of brilliant people, and I was looking into the faces of so many loving and happy fans in the concert Hall. The momentum and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly captured and preserved here on this record. I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship…a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. You can hear his wizardry captured brilliantly on LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE.

Here’s the album’s track listing:

1. Countrywide
2. Fuel
3. The Jolly Swagman
4. Deep River Blues
   -Doc’s Guitar
   -Blue Smoke
   -Cannonball Rag
5. Song for a Rainy Morning
6. Since We Met
7. Secret Love
8. Drums/Mombasa
9. Gdansk
   -Tall Fiddler
10. Smokey Mountain Lullaby
11. Windy & Warm
12. Beatles Medley
    -She’s A Women
    -Please Please Me
    -While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    -Day Tripper
    -Lady Madonna
13. Classical Gas
14. April Sun in Cuba
15. Sail On
16. American Tune
    -Waltzing Matilda

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024-25. The full international list of dates is HERE.

2025
January 10 – Menlo Park, CA – The Guild Theatre
January 11 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for The Arts
January 12 – Red Bluff, CA – State Theatre for the Arts
March 25 – Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
March 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
March 27 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
March 28 – Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre
March 30 – Calgary, AB – The Jak Singer Concert Hall
March 31 – Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre
April 1 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre
April 2 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre for Performing Arts
April 4 – Victoria, BC – Royal Theatre
April 5 – Campbell River, BC – Tidemark Theatre
July 21 – Halifax, NS – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a C.P.G. (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). He has also earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum. A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

For more information on TOMMY EMMANUEL, visit:
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | YOUTUBE

SRO PR Assets + Press Releases:
http://sropr.com/portfolio/tommyemmanuel/

SRO PR: Los Angeles, Nashville, Las Vegas

Mitch Schneider // mschneider@sropr.com
Andrea Faulk // afaulk@sropr.com
Lyndie Wenner // lwenner@sropr.com

DT: NOVEMBER 14, 2024

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
ANNOUNCES MARCH 21, 2025 RELEASE OF
‘LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE’
THE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
TODAY RELEASES THE 16-TRACK ALBUM’S FIRST SINGLE AND LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO,“THE JOLLY SWAGMAN”
LISTEN HERE/WATCH HERE

HEADS BACK ON THE ROAD IN DECEMBER
FOR AN ARRAY OF NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
STRETCHING INTO 2025

‘Live At The Sydney Opera House’ Cover Art

TOMMY EMMANUEL is an acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, global touring artist, and Grammy® Award winner. He is also one of five people ever named a C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the great innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary. Today, TOMMY has announced the March 21, 2025 release of LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE (C.G.P. Sounds) and the album’s first single and live performance video, “The Jolly Swagman,” beautifully filmed by Bondi Rocks Media at the Sydney Opera House in his native Australia. Listen to track HERE and watch the video HERE.

“I wrote ‘The Jolly Swagman’ for an imaginary character,” says TOMMY, “who makes us all happy by clicking his heels in the air while playing the concertina!!”

EMMANUEL 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. But there’s something truly magical about the Sydney Opera House, and the magic of his sold-out performances there has finally been captured on this new EMMANUEL-produced album. It features 16 tracks, four of which are medleys, including his famous “Beatles Medley” (a previous live version of this has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube).

“The moment and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly preserved here on this record,” says TOMMY. “I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship… a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

He played two spellbinding shows on the Concert Hall stage in May 2023, with the best of both performances represented here. The setlist showcases the most beloved songs of TOMMY’s career—classic compositions like “Tall Fiddler,” “Mombasa,” and “Country Wide,” recent fan favorites like “Fuel” and “Sail On,” his now iconic arrangement of “Classical Gas,” and his thrilling “Beatles Medley.”

“As a 15-year-old boy living in Circular Quay, I spent many a time walking past the Opera House,” he says. “I would daydream about what it must be like in there, what it would be like to perform there. After fifty years in the business, we finally got there!”

“Playing the shows for this recording was a dream come true for me,” TOMMY adds. “I felt so ready! I was surrounded by my team of brilliant people, and I was looking into the faces of so many loving and happy fans in the concert Hall. The momentum and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly captured and preserved here on this record. I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship…a bond built on a life freely given to all.”

A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. You can hear his wizardry captured brilliantly on LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE.

Here’s the album’s track listing:

1. Countrywide
2. Fuel
3. The Jolly Swagman
4. Deep River Blues
   -Doc’s Guitar
   -Blue Smoke
   -Cannonball Rag
5. Song for a Rainy Morning
6. Since We Met
7. Secret Love
8. Drums/Mombasa
9. Gdansk
   -Tall Fiddler
10. Smokey Mountain Lullaby
11. Windy & Warm
12. Beatles Medley
    -She’s A Women
    -Please Please Me
    -While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    -Day Tripper
    -Lady Madonna
13. Classical Gas
14. April Sun in Cuba
15. Sail On
16. American Tune
    -Waltzing Matilda

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024-25. The full international list of dates is HERE.

2024
December 5 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
December 6 – Fort Myers, FL – Babara B Mann Performing Arts Hall
December 7 – Clearwater, FL – Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
December 8 – Jacksonville, FL – Florida Theatre
December 10 – Charlotte, NC – Knight Theater
December 11 – Newberry, SC – Newberry Opera House
December 12 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
December 14 – Charlottesville, VA – The Paramount Theater
December 15 – Hopewell, VA – Beacon Theatre

2025
January 8 – Irvine, CA – Irvine Barclay Theatre
January 9 – Malibu, CA – Smother Theatre @ Lisa Smith Wengler Ctr for the Arts
January 10 – Menlo Park, CA – The Guild Theatre
January 11 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for The Arts
January 12 – Red Bluff, CA – State Theatre for the Arts
March 25 – Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
March 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
March 27 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
March 28 – Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre
March 30 – Calgary, AB – The Jak Singer Concert Hall
April 1 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre
April 2 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre for Performing Arts
April 4 – Victoria, BC – Royal Theatre
April 5 – Campbell River, BC – Tidemark Theatre

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a C.P.G. (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). He has also earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum. A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

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DT: JUNE 20, 2024

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
TODAY RELEASES NEWLY SHOT LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FOR
“MR. GUITAR (LIVE)”
IN HONOR OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN CHET ATKINS’ 100TH BIRTHDAY ON JUNE 20

“MR. GUITAR (LIVE)”
IS FEATURED AS A BONUS TRACK ON EMMANUEL’S NEWLY RELEASED ALBUM
‘ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION’

VIEW THE “MR. GUITAR”
VIDEO HERE

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

In honor of what would have been Chet Atkins’ 100^th birthday today (June 20), Grammy® Award winner TOMMY EMMANUEL has released a newly shot video of “Mr. Guitar” (Live).” It’s a song that TOMMY wrote in honor of the legendary and influential guitar pioneer.

Watch the video, filmed at TOMMY’s home outside of Nashville, TN and directed by Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard for Neighborhoods Apart, HERE. It was premiered yesterday (June 19) by The Bluegrass Situation.

The original studio recording of “Mr. Guitar” appeared on Tommy Emmanuel’s 1997 collaborative album with Chet Atkins titled The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World.

A live version the song, “Mr. Guitar (Live),” recorded in St. Louis, is featured as a live bonus track on TOMMY‘s album, Endless Road: 20th Anniversary Edition, released May 28, 2024.

There’s also a new version of “Mr. Guitar” that TOMMY recorded with Grammy-winning bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland. It appears on the multi-artist album WE STILL CAN’T SAY GOODBYE – A Musicians’ Tribute to Chet Atkins, released March 15, 2024.

TOMMY EMMANUEL is an acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, and global touring artist. He is also one of five people ever named a C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary.

“Mentoring and encouraging people is something that Chet always did,” TOMMY says. “I try to do this thing with Gareth (Pearson), and I try to do the same with all young people. I encourage them to do things that I learned from Chet. I hope that somewhere somehow, I showed somebody something because of him that changed their life and made their life better. Cause he sure did that for me.”

Read HERE for more about ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Regarded as a landmark album within TOMMY’s body of work, Endless Road has now been newly remastered for digital outlets and is also available for the first time ever on vinyl.

TOMMY is also coming off a dynamic 2023. He released his acclaimed collaborations album ACCOMPLICE TWO to great acclaim and earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum.

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024. The full international list of dates is HERE.

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

For more information on TOMMY EMMANUEL, visit:
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DT: MAY 9, 2024

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
TODAY RELEASES NEWLY SHOT LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FOR
“BELLA SOAVE”
THE SONG IS FEATURED ON HIS UPCOMING ALBUM
‘ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION’
OUT MAY 17
VIEW THE VIDEO HERE

THE NEWLY REMASTERED CLASSIC ALBUM
BY THE GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER WILL FEATURE
THREE NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED LIVE BONUS TRACKS
AND BE AVAILABLE ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME

Grammy® Award winner TOMMY EMMANUEL—acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, and global touring artist—has today (May 9) released a newly shot live performance video for “Bella Soave,” a track from his upcoming album ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION out May 17. View the Bella Soave” video—which begins with TOMMY talking about the song’s inspiration—HERE. It was shot at TOMMY’s home outside of Nashville, TN and directed by Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard for Neighborhoods Apart. It was premiered yesterday (May 8) by The Bluegrass Situation.

Regarded as a landmark album within TOMMY’s body of work, Endless Road has now been newly remastered for digital outlets and will also be available for the first time ever on vinyl. The beautiful and evocative “Bella Soave” is among the album’s highlights. TOMMY recalls that he wrote the song in the back of car while traveling from Soave (near Verona), where he had just spent a few days at a guitar festival, down to Rome.

“The song was written after my first visit in Soave, Italy in 1999.  It was the first festival I ever played,” recalls TOMMY. “I was so happy and overjoyed from the experience of the festival that I started writing when I got into the backseat of the car.  We were driving from Soave down to Rome for a show and workshop, and I wrote this song on the way there. I got it finished and played it that night at the show.  I tried to give it a sort of Spanish feel in the bridge because I had met a lot of Spaniards that weekend at the festival,” he adds.  “’Bella Soave’ means ‘beautiful Soave.’ It’s a beautiful place and has been a big part of my musical life.”

ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION will include three never-before released live bonus tracks: “Mona Lisa (Live),” “Mr. Guitar (Live),” and “Morning Aire (Live),” the latter of which was unveiled on May 2. Watch the video HERE.

TOMMY views Endless Road as a “wonderful album in my life and in my career. It has a lot of songs that I get asked to play, like ‘The Endless Road,’ ‘Angelina,’ ‘(The Man With The) Green Thumb,’ and ‘Mona Lisa.’” He adds that these songs “are dear to my heart and dear to my fans and friends out there.” Watch the album announcement trailer HERE.

ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION also includes his covers of “Windy & Warm” and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” In addition, the remastered album will feature a live version of “Mr. Guitar.” (The studio version of the song, by TOMMY and Michael Cleveland, was released this past March as first single from the new multi-artist album WE STILL CAN’T SAY GOODBYE – A Musicians’ Tribute to Chet Atkins.) TOMMY recently wrote “Mr. Guitar” in honor of his idol and music icon Chet Atkins, who called TOMMY “one of the best guitar players I’ve ever seen.” In fact, TOMMY is one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary. Nashville and the music industry are preparing to celebrate what would have been his 100^th birthday on June 20.

Meanwhile, TOMMY was honored this past February when he and guitar trio The String Revolution won the Grammy® Award in the “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella” category for their unique reimagining of Johnny Cash’s classic “Folsom Prison Blues.” Sharing the Grammy Award with them was The Man in Black’s son John Carter Cash, who produced the single. Watch the video for “Folsom Prison Blues” HERE.

TOMMY is also coming off a dynamic 2023. He released his acclaimed collaborations album ACCOMPLICE TWO to great acclaim and earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum.

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024. The full international list of dates is HERE.

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel:
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

For more information on TOMMY EMMANUEL, visit:
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DT: MAY 2, 2024

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

TOMMY EMMANUEL
TO RELEASE ‘ENDLESS ROAD: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION’
ON MAY 17

THE NEWLY REMASTERED CLASSIC ALBUM
BY THE GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER WILL FEATURE
THREE NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED LIVE BONUS TRACKS
INCLUDING “MORNING AIRE (LIVE)”

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “MORNING AIRE (LIVE)” HERE

On May 17, to mark the 20th Anniversary of Grammy® Award winner TOMMY EMMANUEL’s landmark album Endless Road, the acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, composer, and global touring artist will release a newly remastered 20th anniversary edition of the album on digital outlets.

ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION will include three never-before released live bonus tracks: “Mona Lisa (Live),” “Mr. Guitar (Live),” and “Morning Aire (Live),” the latter of which was unveiled today (May 2). Watch the video HERE. TOMMY will also release the original remastered album for the first time ever on vinyl.

TOMMY views Endless Road as a “wonderful album in my life and in my career. It has a lot of songs that I get asked to play, like ‘The Endless Road,’ ‘Angelina,’ ‘(The Man With The) Green Thumb,’ and ‘Mona Lisa.’” He adds that these songs “are dear to my heart and dear to my fans and friends out there.” Watch the album announcement trailer HERE.

ENDLESS ROAD: 20^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION also includes his covers of “Windy & Warm” and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” In addition, the remastered album will feature a live version of “Mr. Guitar.” (The studio version of the song, by TOMMY and Michael Cleveland, was released this past March as first single from the new multi-artist album WE STILL CAN’T SAY GOODBYE – A Musicians’ Tribute to Chet Atkins.) TOMMY recently wrote “Mr. Guitar” in honor of his idol and music icon Chet Atkins, who called TOMMY “one of the best guitar players I’ve ever seen.” In fact, TOMMY is one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by Chet Atkins, the innovator, songwriter, producer, record company executive, and visionary. Nashville and the music industry are preparing to celebrate what would have been his 100^th birthday on June 20.

Meanwhile, TOMMY was honored this past February when he and guitar trio The String Revolution won the Grammy® Award in the “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella” category for their unique reimagining of Johnny Cash’s classic “Folsom Prison Blues.” Sharing the Grammy Award with them was The Man in Black’s son John Carter Cash, who produced the single. Watch the video for “Folsom Prison Blues” HERE.

TOMMY is also coming off a dynamic 2023. He released his acclaimed collaborations album ACCOMPLICE TWO to great acclaim and earned the “Lifetime Achievement” Award from The National GUITAR Museum.

Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024. The full international list of dates is HERE.

Artist: Tommy Emmanuel:
Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:
TOMMY EMMANUEL has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, the Grammy® Award winner was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World (December 2019). A noted fingerstyle guitarist, EMMANUEL frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but EMMANUEL never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.

For more information on TOMMY EMMANUEL, visit:
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | YOUTUBE

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DT: FEBRUARY 6, 2023

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ANDREA FAULK/LYNDIE WENNER
SRO PR (LOS ANGELES, NASHVILLE, LAS VEGAS)

THE STRING REVOLUTION AND TOMMY EMMANUEL
TAKE HOME THE GRAMMY® AWARD FOR THEIR UNIQUE REIMAGINING OF JOHNNY CASH’S CLASSIC “FOLSOM PRISON BLUES”
IN THE “BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPPELLA” CATEGORY

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

(Clockwise from top right: Tommy Emmanuel, Rober Luis, John Carter Cash, Janet Robin, Markus Illko) Photo Credit: @iheartmaarten

Musical integrity still matters, as illustrated by guitar trio The String Revolution and guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel winning the Grammy® Award this past Sunday (2/4) in the “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella” category for their unique reimagining of Johnny Cash’s classic “Folsom Prison Blues.” Sharing the Grammy Award with them is The Man in Black’s son John Carter Cash, who produced the single. Released July 23, 2023 via Copeland International Arts/Universal Music Group, it proves some classics are meant to be reborn. Watch the video for “Folsom Prison Blues” here.

QUOTE FROM THE STRING REVOLUTION:

“Janet Robin, Markus Illko and Rober Luis of the guitar trio, The String Revolution couldn’t be more honored and grateful to the Recording Academy for this Grammy® recognition. It goes without saying, having the master himself Tommy Emmanuel gracing our track, and John Carter Cash producing it, gave it that extra special magic that pushed the recording to shine even more. Huge thanks to the entire team including our engineer Trey Call, mixing engineer Matthew Hyde, and mastering engineer Emerson Mancini who also added the final frosting.”

“The String Revolution is absolutely honored to have received this Grammy Award.® This is a win for all artists out there who work hard and consistently push ourselves to experiment with our craft and continue to create unique and inspirational works. This is a very special moment for us that we will never forget!”

QUOTE FROM TOMMY EMMANUEL:

“I am deeply moved to be honored with a Grammy Award.  I couldn’t believe it when they called our names!  I am so blessed to have been asked to come out and play on ‘Folsom Prison Blues,’ a song I’ve known all my life!  To get to work with The String Revolution and John Carter Cash has been fun and adventurous! Sometimes, you’ve just got to show up, do your thing, and stand back to see what happens!”

QUOTE FROM JOHN CARTER CASH

“Attention: This is not my Daddy’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues.’ My excitement over this unique instrumental arrangement has been unsurpassed in my life up to this point. I am honored to be a part of this wondrous historic recording!”

In a celestial alignment of strings and frets, The String Revolution and Tommy Emmanuel came together to create “Folsom Prison Blues,” a match made in guitar heaven. The String Revolution‘s meticulous approach to reinventing this classic was not taken lightly. With an acute awareness of the need for genius, they enlisted the incomparable Emmanuel to lend his virtuosity to the track. Taking the reins as producer, John Carter Cash infused the recording with more authentic vibes. It was recorded at Cash Cabin Studios, where Johnny and family worked on many recordings. In order to achieve maximum authenticity, one of Johnny Cash’s personal guitars—a 1930’s Martin—was played by The String Revolution’s Markus Illko, while Luther Perkins’ 1955 Fender Esquire (used in the original “Folsom Prison Blues” recording) was played by The String Revolution’s Rober Luis.

The String Revolution is comprised of three professional virtuoso guitar players who create distinctive sounds with their guitars: mimicking percussion, special effects, melodic grooves, bass lines, and more. They share a passion for many different musical styles and guitar techniques which has given The String Revolution a unique sound. This is evident in their studio recordings and live shows. A clear dedication and hard work ethic for the project brought The String Revolution together.

The band includes former Randy Rhoads student Janet Robin (named in the “Top 50 Acoustic Guitarist bonus list” by Guitar Player Magazine, 2017), who is also an acclaimed touring guitarist with the likes of Lindsey Buckingham, Meredith Brooks, Air Supply and many more, award winning Austrian nylon-string guitarist Markus Illko and Cuban multi-credited guitarist Rober Luis.

Tommy Emmanuel has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. At the age of six, he was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a CGP (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. He’s piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy); repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader’s poll including a cover story for their August 2017 issue; a cover feature for Vintage Guitar’s July 2020 issue; and was Music Radar’s reader’s poll #1 winner of the Ten Best Acoustic Guitarists in The World.

ABOUT THE STRING REVOLUTION:

THE STRING REVOLUTION, a triumvirate of guitar virtuosos, skillfully craft distinct sounds with their instruments–mimicking percussion, experimenting with special effects, weaving melodic grooves, and anchoring bass lines, all contributing to their unique sonic identity. The passion for diverse musical styles and guitar techniques unites them, evident in both studio recordings and electrifying live performances. Their unwavering dedication and relentless work ethic have forged The String Revolution into a musical force to be reckoned with.

ABOUT TOMMY EMMANUEL:

TOMMY EMMANUEL, a maestro of the strings, boasts a career that reads like a musical odyssey. From sold-out shows in Nashville to Sydney to London, he has amassed accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations and two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association. Emmanuel’s contribution to this collaboration elevates it to unprecedented heights.

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