Mr. Joe Euro will perform January 28, 2021 at the first ever Online Candlelight Concert live-streamed from Trinity United Methodist Church Port Townsend. Mr Euro is described as a “Classical / Neo-Classical Finger-Style” guitarist.

The concert will be for one hour with no intermissions. To listen to Mr. Euro’s performance, direct your web browser to: https://trinityumcpt.org and click on the link for Candlelight Concerts. There you will find more concert information and ways to donate.

More information on Joe’s music is available on his music web site found at: https://www.facebook.com/Joe-Euro-Music-333225320044052/

Joe Euro is a Port Townsend entrepreneur who founded one of Washington’s State’s oldest and finest wine/bottle shops, the Wine Seller in 1982. “The Small Town Wine Shop with the Big City Selection,” promises the Wine Seller web site.

Although he has performed a number of different stringed playing styles, Joe is a talented classical guitarist who has played numerous live shows and events such as Port Townsend’s and Seattle’s Wooden Boat Festivals. Since this concert will be live streamed, Joe is looking forward to a potentially much larger audience than the usual 80-120 or so folks that can fit in this beautiful old church. But he says, that he will “miss the live interaction and applause…oh well…I often play my heart strings out, even if it’s only me.”

Joe may not be able to hear the applause, but I am 100% certain it will be happening in the homes of everyone listening!

Joe’s Candlelight Concert performance will include: Acoustic, Instrumental “Neo-Classical”/“Finger Style” Guitar, featuring many of Euro’s original “Neo-Classical” compositions, some actual Classical Guitar, some lite jazz and a bit of his “Ambient Space Guitar” pieces. Mr. Euro’s recordings have been played and appreciated around the world, and his music is available through a number of sources such as Spotify; Amazon Music; Rhapsody; Napster and Pandora.

Mr. Euro’s performance is always intriguing with variety and perhaps a glimmer of virtuosity. His selections are generally played on at least 3-4 different guitars which all sound and look different; most are classical/ Spanish nylon string guitars but Euro usually brings “Big Red”, his jumbo bodied steel string with cutaway. Euro also utilizes a fair amount of guitar “tricks” that allow him to, with the use of various, what he refers to often as “Iconoclassical” techniques with “reach overs”, “slap ons”, “hammer ons”, “pull offs” and other such guitar techniques that allows him to actually play two parts of a piece at once.

Mr. Euro will perform some pieces such as one he’s titled “The High Road” (the title track to his 1st CD, a lively Scottish dance-like piece). Various other originals will be tackled from Euro’s 4+ studio recordings: “Eyes On The Horizon”; “Souvenir”; “Holiday Cheer” and “Through the Years.”

Mr. Euro chooses not to be tied to playing a particular stated set list…but generally he chooses to cover, besides his own compositions… a few straight classical pieces “plucked from my Classical Guitar repertoire”. Perhaps some Scarlatti, Satie, Sor and maybe Paganini (yes, Niccolò Paganini wrote for the guitar as well as the violin) and perhaps he will play and improv on a Chopin Prelude…if there’s time. Euro has taken to playing some arrangements he’s made of other popular tunes such as Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.

Mr. Euro will no doubt perform some of his “Big Spacey Sound” as he calls them…ambient pieces such as his “Alone Among Angels”, from his “Souvenir” CD and he sometimes does a medley of two of his ambient pieces “Then They Were Gone” and “Midnight Watch” from Euro’s “Eyes on the Horizon” and “The High Road” recordings.

One thing is certain: You are in for a real treat delivered by an awesome, eclectic performer!

You won’t want to miss it!

“We are committed to preserving and sharing the shanties and “songs of the sea” that once echoed across our Victorian waterfront during the golden age of sail. We have entertained audiences throughout the Puget Sound with our lively shanties, amusing stories and beautiful ballads of the sea.”

“We have performed at many pubs, yacht clubs , schools and festivals including Folk Life in Seattle, The Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend and the Maritime Festival in Port Angles. Inspired by our love of the British pub scene, we often pass out song sheets and encourage the audience to sing along.”

About Chris Gilbert:
Chris hails from London, England and has participated in various folk traditions in the “old country” since his college days. He spent many a happy hour singing in folk clubs and pub song circles. He also became very active in the quintessential English frivolity known as Morris dancing. In ’92, he emigrated to the US, finally settling in Port Townsend. He finds the environment of the Northwest ideal for developing as a singer and a storyteller.

Chris has another band focusing on folk songs from the British Isles called Happenstance. You can find them at: www.happenstancemusic.net.

About Jay McHagar:
Jay was raised in Northern CA where he enjoyed singing cowboy songs and playing his harmonica while riding his horse at his family’s stables. He went on to compete in horse shows and rodeos before hanging up his spurs, and starting a career in agricultural irrigation engineering. This took him to Australia, the Middle East, and Europe, where he discovered and fell in love with Irish pub singing.

He re-discovered his love of music after retiring to Port Townsend in 2011. While living aboard his boat, and attempting to become a sailor, he stumbled upon a shanty circle and joined in. He was soon taken by the history and culture of the ships of sail and the shanty art form. Jay realized he had found a new home when he heard a line from a maritime folk song that read “sailors are just cowboys at sea”.