New York Guitar Festival: Night Two - Yamandu Costa

June 21, 2024 – Saturday, 8 PM | Doors 7 PM
First Unitarian Congregational Society – 119-121 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights
Advance: $45 | Day of Show: $50 | Children 14 and under: $5 – must be accompanied by an adult and tickets can be purchased at the door.
WMI Members: Advance: $36 | Day of Show: $40
Co-presented with NY Guitar Festival – Hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer
Link to Night One – Bill Frisell and Skúli Sverrisson | Link to Night Three – Derek Gripper and Rahim AlHaj
No one calls Yamandu Costa “The Wild Man Of The Guitar” – at least, not to his face. No, people use polite terms like “Latin Grammy winner” and “virtuoso champion of Brazilian music.” But we have recordings of his past NYGF performances where his wild displays of both technique and feeling, on his trademark 7-string guitar, have provoked audible gasps from the audience and roaring ovations that often rival the length of his songs. A serial collaborator, Costa has played with everyone from Bobby McFerrin to Marisa Monte to the Philharmonie de Paris. But there’s nothing quite like seeing him solo. – John Schaefer

JOHN SCHAEFER Executive Producer, Music Programming, WNYC Radio
John Schaefer is the host and producer of WNYC’s long-running new music show New Sounds (“The #1 radio show for the Global Village” – Billboard), founded in 1982, and its innovative Soundcheck podcast, which has featured live performances and interviews with a variety of guests since 2002. He created the New Sounds Live concert series in 1986, which features new works, commissioned pieces, and a special series devoted to live music for silent films.
About New York Guitar Festival
Exploring virtually every aspect of the guitar’s personality, the New York Guitar Festival, since 1999, has presented many of the world’s most influential guitarists at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, (Le) Poisson Rouge, 92nd Street Y, Brookfield Place Winter Garden and other iconic venues, large and small. From multi Grammy-winners to emerging artists, NYGF performers have included masters of the classical repertoire (Pepe Romero, Christopher Parkening, Ana Vidović, Nigel North) as well as blues & jazz (Taj Mahal, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bill Frisell, Sonny Landreth), pop & indie rock (Vernon Reid, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Iver, Andy Summers, Thurston Moore), and folk & Americana (Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Cindy Cashdollar, Leo Kottke) as well as sounds of Central & South America (Badi Assad, Yamandu Costa, Vinicius Cantuária) and genre-defying innovators (Kaki King, David Torn, Daniel Lanois, Bryce Dessner). The New York Guitar Festival: music from across the centuries. . . and music yet to be.
The New York Guitar Festival is made possible by the generosity of a grant from the Augustine Foundation.