NEW YORK GUITAR FESTIVAL

Save the dates: June 14 & 15 ––The New York Guitar Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! 
In partnership with World Music Institute + New Sounds Live, our 25th season begins with two concerts at Merkin Hall featuring: Marc Ribot & Leyla McCalla, Yasmin Williams, Neel Murgai & Kunal Prakash, Medicine Singers, Lee Ranaldo & Yonatan G*t, Maalem Hassan BenJafaar, Mamady Kouyate and other very special guests.

A quarter century of bringing guitars and guitar-like instruments from around the world to New York left NYGF founder David Spelman and his co-founder/collaborator John Schaefer of WNYC’s New Sounds scratching their heads and wondering what they could possibly do to mark the occasion.  The answer:  return to the place where it all began, back in 1999.  And so the Festival’s 25th anniversary will kick off in Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center with two typically eclectic events on the weekend of June 14 and 15, both co-presented by New Sounds Live and recorded for future broadcast on WNYC.

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