Sommer Home Vibes - TONY COX TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA - 24 June to 16 July 2 023
Where: The Old Mushroom Farm
When: Sat 1 July @ 6pm
Boo
king: www.quicket.co.za
Award-winning international guitar maestro, T ony Cox, is heading home for a long-awaited tour of South Africa. His retur n is a rare opportunity for local audiences to see this acoustic guitar phe nomenon play his unique brand of dazzling, finger-style guitar. With dizzyi ng playing skills, he combines African and European influences into his own inimitable style - taking audiences on a foot-tapping, heart-beating, soul -feeding journey in every show.
Tony’s laid-back grooves, effortless guitar wizardry and astonishingly layered musical creations are intersperse d with his wry observations, engaging warmth and playful, ribtickling bante r. If you come to one of his performances as a stranger, you will leave fee ling that Tony is your new China.
Born in Zimbabwe, raised in Cape To wn and now living in England, Tony’s fan base has grown from a loyal horde of South Africans to include Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and numero us other enthusiastic bands of followers worldwide. This ascent to his curr ent heights as a master musician began as a 9 year old playing Hawaiian gui tar in what was then Rhodesia. In his teens, he evolved towards a more conv entional playing style - and later, to polish his technique, he studied cla ssical guitar for an intensive two-year period.
After his family relo cated to Cape Town in 1969, Tony enhanced his already considerable skills a nd Western training by absorbing and adapting the multi-textured rhythms an d varied styles of the indigenous music of his upbringing and surroundings. He began to compose his own music early in his career and his creations ar e shot through with rich African imagery and influences. Tony’s fingers hav e assimilated the techniques of international greats like Leo Kottke, Bert Jansch and - closer to home – folk-stylist, Jannie Hofmeyr and Zulu maskand i master, Sipho Mchunu.
Alongside his solo career, Tony has collabora ted and recorded with many other musicians to produce three award-winning a lbums and many nominations. In 2002, 2003 and 2008 he won the ‘Best Instrum ental’ category at the SAMA Awards. Tony’s current tour, while mainly focus ing on his solo performances, will include a series of reunion concerts wit h Steve Newman, one of his most well-known collaborations. Tony will be per forming in Johannesburg, Kwazulu-Natal and Cape Town.
FOR ALL VENUES,
DATES AND BOOKING LINKS
www.tonycox.co.za/shows.html
Author cre dit: Greig Coetzee
Sommer Home Vibes - TONY COX TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA - 24 June to 16 July 2 023
Where: The Old Mushroom Farm
When: Sat 1 July @ 6pm
Boo
king: www.quicket.co.za
Award-winning international guitar maestro, T ony Cox, is heading home for a long-awaited tour of South Africa. His retur n is a rare opportunity for local audiences to see this acoustic guitar phe nomenon play his unique brand of dazzling, finger-style guitar. With dizzyi ng playing skills, he combines African and European influences into his own inimitable style - taking audiences on a foot-tapping, heart-beating, soul -feeding journey in every show.
Tony’s laid-back grooves, effortless guitar wizardry and astonishingly layered musical creations are intersperse d with his wry observations, engaging warmth and playful, ribtickling bante r. If you come to one of his performances as a stranger, you will leave fee ling that Tony is your new China.
Born in Zimbabwe, raised in Cape To wn and now living in England, Tony’s fan base has grown from a loyal horde of South Africans to include Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and numero us other enthusiastic bands of followers worldwide. This ascent to his curr ent heights as a master musician began as a 9 year old playing Hawaiian gui tar in what was then Rhodesia. In his teens, he evolved towards a more conv entional playing style - and later, to polish his technique, he studied cla ssical guitar for an intensive two-year period.
After his family relo cated to Cape Town in 1969, Tony enhanced his already considerable skills a nd Western training by absorbing and adapting the multi-textured rhythms an d varied styles of the indigenous music of his upbringing and surroundings. He began to compose his own music early in his career and his creations ar e shot through with rich African imagery and influences. Tony’s fingers hav e assimilated the techniques of international greats like Leo Kottke, Bert Jansch and - closer to home – folk-stylist, Jannie Hofmeyr and Zulu maskand i master, Sipho Mchunu.
Alongside his solo career, Tony has collabora ted and recorded with many other musicians to produce three award-winning a lbums and many nominations. In 2002, 2003 and 2008 he won the ‘Best Instrum ental’ category at the SAMA Awards. Tony’s current tour, while mainly focus ing on his solo performances, will include a series of reunion concerts wit h Steve Newman, one of his most well-known collaborations. Tony will be per forming in Johannesburg, Kwazulu-Natal and Cape Town.
FOR ALL VENUES,
DATES AND BOOKING LINKS
www.tonycox.co.za/shows.html
Author cre dit: Greig Coetzee
