Fingerpicking guitar wizard, deft songwriter, and mesmerizing live performer, Sam Pacetti, will be performing in Gainesville. Pacetti represents a culmination of the best of the American and British traditions. His 1997 Waterbug debut, Solitary Travel, garnered critical raves. “This guy is very good, indeed,” deadpanned the highly respected (and highly critical) UK magazine Folk Roots. And Dirty Linen, the influential US roots publication, opined, “Although the woods are full of young guitar virtuosos, few have developed the style, technique and artistic wisdom of Sam Pacetti.”

Sam Pacetti grew up in North Florida, hardly known as a hotbed of either the folk tradition or musical innovation. But at age 13, he saw Chet Atkins on TV and thought, “Yeah, that’s the way guitar should be played.” So Sam bought a couple of finger-picks and grew his nails. “I was terrible,” he admits. Fate intervened shortly afterwards in the person of Gamble Rogers, the legendary picker and raconteur from St. Augustine who took the young Pacetti under his wing. The CMC will bring Pacetti to Gainesville.

When: Saturday, April 14 @ 8 PM
Where: 2nd Street Bakery,
1511 NW 2nd Street, Gainesville
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
(advance tickets available at Hyde & Zeke Records,
Omni Books, and Wild Iris Books)
Call (352) 373-0010 for more information.

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