🗓️ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 | 7:30 PM
đź“ŤBROWNING CENTER AT WSU
International Guitar Night returns to Ogden for an evening that feels less like a concert and more like a conversation between four master guitarists who traveled from four corners of the world to spend the night swapping stories through their strings. For the fifth year in a row, Onstage Ogden brings IGN back to town, and this lineup may be the most geographically ambitious yet.
Jim Kimo West carries the sound of Hana, Maui in his fingers. His 2021 Grammy win for More Guitar Stories put ki ho’alu, traditional Hawaiian slack key, back on the national radar. Luca Stricagnoli, raised in Varese and now based in Nashville, plays three guitars at once when the arrangement calls for it. His viral takes on Thunderstruck and The Last of the Mohicans broke him through on the same fingerstyle circuit Michael Hedges and Tommy Emmanuel built. Minnie Marks arrives from Queensland with a well-worn 1950s Goldtop and a Janis Joplin rasp, layering slide guitar over foot-drum percussion until one woman sounds like a full band. Roxane Elfasci, the French classical guitarist who left HEC Paris to study with Gerard Abiton at the Pole Superieur, brings Debussy and Ravel reworked for six nylon strings. Her Clair de Lune arrangement has drawn more than nine million listens on YouTube.
The format has held steady for thirty years. Solos open the evening. Duets deepen it. The full quartet closes. You hear the differences between traditions, and you hear what they share the moment four players who have never toured together before start trading ideas in real time. Last year’s International Guitar Night Ogden show sold out. The room at the Browning Center is intimate enough that the wood of each guitar carries to the back row.
