SJARMS May, 2019: Hiroya Tsukamoto

Award winning guitarist/vocalist Hiroya Tsukamoto will be our May, 2019 meeting performer on Monday May 13, 2019 at 7 pm at the Medford Memorial Community Center, 21 South Main Street, Medford, NJ.

Guests and Visitors $10 at the door.
Admission is free to current SJARMS members.
Info on membership: please see the membership tab at the top at www.sjarms.com

For more information on the performance/meeting please email southjerseyarms@gmail.com.

Please park in the gravel lot behind the Center and enter the building through the back porch entrance.

Of course, we will have our usual all-level acoustic jams after Hiroya performs until 9:25 pm.
As always, we can utilize the various rooms on the first floor of the Center for jamming.
Just a reminder, SJARMS is allowed to use the first floor only. We do not have access to the 2nd floor of the building.

About Hiroya:

Hiroya Tsukamoto is an innovative guitarist and composer fuses folk,jazz, and world music. Born and raised in Japan, in 2000 he received a scholarship to Berklee College of music and came to the U.S.

“In terms of musicianship, Tsukamoto’s guitar work was just ridiculous. Right from the beginning of his first song, it was obvious that the folks in Bernunzio’s were in for a treat. His brand of finger style guitar is so intricate, and so blazingly fast at the same time, I kept imagining how many clones I would need to make of myself to accurately replicate his sound. One song that drove that point home was his set opener, “From Coast to Coast,” a song that had some of the fastest harmonic runs I’ve heard,” wrote Trevor Lewis of the Rochester City News.

Tsukamoto’s instrumental abilities are indeed breathtaking and astounding, but his performances are so much more than that. He has the unique capability of engaging an audience thru a personable and genuine approach that transfixes his audience and almost transcends his capabilities as a guitarist. Audience members will be mesmerized; Tsukamoto plays with an effortless skill on the guitar and a repertoire that will have you traveling the world, not to mention experiencing new sounds with his own compositions.

Tsukamoto headlines concerts throughout the U.S. as well as internationally including Blue Note in NYC and Japanese National Television. Most recently, Hiroya won 2nd place in International Finger-Style Guitar Championship in 2018.

Quotes:
“…chops, passion and warmth. Zealously recommended!” -Jazz Review.com

“HiroyaTsukamoto plays with fluid mastery, pristine tone, and great
warmth. ” -Celine Keating (author / Acoustic Guitar Magazine /minor 7th)

“HiroyaTsukamoto takes us to an impressionistic journey ” -Boston Herald

Website: www.hiroyatsukamoto.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/HiroyaMusic

Check out some of Hiroya’s music by clicking on the links below:

1. Soledad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POGNMdMKYo4

2. Gemini Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aEhApYFtWg

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