Mr. Joe Euro – Performance Date: January 28, 2021.

More information on Joe’s music is available on his music web site found at: http://JoeEuroMusic.com

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!