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REXBURG,
Idaho—Grammy Award-winner George Winston will perform in a piano concert
Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall of the Snow Center for the
Performing Arts at BYU-Idaho.
A
limited number of standby tickets are still available. Contact the
BYU-Idaho Ticket Office at 496-2230 for more information.
Winston,
who has three gold and three platinum solo piano recordings with more than
11 million units sold, tours year round in the United States, Asia, and
Europe with approximately 110 shows per year.
Inspired
by R&B, jazz, blues and rock, Winston began playing organ and electric
piano in 1967. He later switched to acoustic piano after hearing recordings
from the 1930s by the legendary stride pianists Thomas “Fats” Waller and
the late Teddy Wilson.
Winston
recorded his first solo piano album, for the late solo guitarist John
Fahey’s Takoma label, “Ballads and Blues—1972.” Since 1980, Winston has
recorded eight solo piano albums. Additionally, he has recorded solo piano
and solo guitar soundtracks for four children’s animated videos: The
Velveteen Rabbit; This is America, Charlie Brown—The Birth of the
Constitution; Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and Pumpkin
Circle.
Winston’s latest CD, “Night
Divides the Day—The Music of the Doors,” was released Oct. 8. # # #
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