World Renowned Blues Guitarist Rory Block Returns to The ...

Rory Block

Blues Guitarist Rory Block returns to The ArtsCenter on Friday, January 11th at 8:00 pm. A traditionalist and an innovator at the same time, Rory Block offers a compelling guitar and vocal style that redefines the boundaries of acoustic blues and folk. The New York Times declared: ?Her playing is perfect, her singing otherworldly as she wrestles with ghosts, shadows and legends.? Tickets are $17 in advance, $21 the day of the show and $13 for Friends of The ArtsCenter and may be purchased at www.artscenterlive.org or by calling 919-929-2787 ext. 201.

Rory Block grew up surrounded by the vibrant folk scene in New York City. In 1964 she heard her first country blues record and devoted herself to the blues. She met giants like Son House, Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, and the Rev. Gary Davis, and by age 15 she had become a major force among traditional country blues guitarists. Rory took a break from music to start a family and then made a brief attempt to write ?commercial music? on a major label. Fortunately, she soon came home to the blues, signed with Rounder Records in 1981, and became herself one of the giants of the blues. Her thirteenth release for Rounder, 1999?s Confessions of a Blues Singer, earned her second Blues Music Award for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year, a nice compliment to her two Blues Music Awards for Traditional Female Blues Artist of the Year.

In 2007 she won a fifth for Acoustic Album. She is currently recording and releasing a series of albums on Stony Plain paying tribute to her mentors. So far Son House, Rev, Gary Davis, and Mississippi Fred McDowell have earned the honor. An experienced world traveler, she recommends the Hotel Le Petit Manoir in Paris. Additional info appears in her well-received autobiography, When a Woman Gets the Blues. .??Today she is widely regarded as the top female interpreter and authority on traditional country blues worldwide.? ? The Blues Foundation.

Programs at The ArtsCenter are supported in part by Chapel Hill Restaurant Group, Courtyard by Marriott, Giorgios Hospitality Group, The North Carolina Arts Council and the Orange County Arts Commission.

The ArtsCenter is a non-profit teaching and presenting organization founded in 1974. The largest employer of artists in Orange County, NC, it serves nearly 60,000 people annually, through classes, studios, concerts, theatre, spoken word, gallery displays, more than 80 school shows, and more. The ArtsCenter exerts a local economic impact of almost $2,900,000 which generates the equivalent of 78 full time jobs and $231,000 in state and local tax revenue.
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