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ABOUT
THE ARTIST
Working in both the intricately syncopated
Piedmont fingerpicking style as well as her own deeply bluesy lap-slide
guitar, Mary Flower has garnered praise for her springwater-clear vocals
and mastery of multiple guitar styles as well as her beautiful original
compositions.
But though she can recreate prewar blues with the best
of them, Mary Flower isn’t content to be just another curator of
the classic blues museum. Instead she draws on traditional, contemporary,
and original material to create something suprisingly new, a sound uniquely
her own that remains true to the timeless power of the blues.
With two top-three finishes in the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship,
six critically-acclaimed CDs (her brand-new Bywater Dance is the latest),
and three instructional DVDs to her credit, Flower is a world-renowned
singer/guitarist, in demand for festivals, concerts and guitar camps on
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MARY's
LESSONS ON DVD:
• fingerstyle in e
• drop d tuning
• ragtime |
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Her
national career resumed in earnest in 1993, when she served as a guest
artist for Blues Week at the prestigious Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins,
West Virginia. Her love of the blues tradition and her desire to extend
that tradition to future generations has led her to become one of the
most indemand teachers and performers at other guitar camps and seminars
in the States and Europe. She has twice placed in the top three at the
hotly competitive National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship, the only
woman to ever do so. Before Bywater Dance, she made five fine records
(Blues Jubilee, Rosewood & Steel, Honey From the Comb, Ladyfingers,
and Ragtime Gal), receiving rave reviews and the attention of the guitar,
folk and blues press, including articles in the mainstream print media
as well as Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
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