Tommy Emmanuel

"'The world's greatest flatpicker'--Oklahoma Gazette" Australian fingerstyle guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is a virtuoso at a very rare level. Tommy's professional career spans 45 years and continues to intersect with those of musicians from around the world. One of his biggest influences, Chet Atkins, became one of his biggest fans as well, and Emmanuel and Atkins recorded together on the 1996 album "The Day the Finger Pickers Took Over the World." A household name in his native Australia, Tommy has also performed with the likes of Eric Clapton, Sir George Martin, Hank Marvin, Joe Walsh, Stevie Wonder, Nokie Edwards (of the Ventures), Les Paul, Keith Urban, the Lexington (Kentucky) Philharmonic, the Dortmund (Germany) Symphony, and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra. He comes to town with a new release, "Center Stage." Visit Tommy's website