DT: JUNE 20, 2024

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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: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION’

VIEW THE “MR. GUITAR”
VIDEO HERE

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Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti

In honor of what would have been Chet Atkins’ 100th 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: 20TH 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.

DATE LOCATION VENUE
Thursday, June 20 Boulder, CO Chautauqua Auditorium
Friday, June 21 Aspen, CO JAS June Experience
Sunday, June 23 Telluride, CO Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Wednesday, July 10 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry
Friday, July 12 -13 Nashville, TN Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention
Wednesday, October 9 London, ON Centennial Hall
Thursday, October 10 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
Friday, October 11 Kitchener, ON Center in the Square (Kitchener)
Saturday, October 12 Ottawa, ON Meridian Theatres
Sunday, October 13 Montreal, QC Place Des Arts Maison Symphonique
Tuesday, October 15 Fredericton, NB The Fredericton Playhouse
Wednesday, October 16 Moncton, NB Capitol Theatre
Thursday, October 17 Saint John, NB Imperial Theatre
Saturday, October 19 Halifax, NS Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
Thursday, December 5 Orlando, FL The Plaza Live
Friday, December 6 Fort Myers, FL Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
Saturday, December 7 Clearwater, FL Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
Sunday, December 8 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
Tuesday, December 10 Charlotte, NC Knight Theater
Wednesday, December 11 Newberry, SC Newberry Opera House
Thursday, December 12 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
Saturday, December 14 Charlottesville, VA The Paramount Theater
Sunday, December 15 Hopewell, VA Beacon Theatre

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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 nominationstwo 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.

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