PGS Presents: Mark Hanson
Free
- Mark Hanson, guitar
PGS presents a monthly meeting, free to the public, for players and listeners, providing two hours of great guitar music. It's also a nonprofit membership organization providing a friendly place to meet other players, makers, and teachers, and it’s a great place to discover and share new tunes, techniques, and styles. We welcome all kinds of music and all skill levels, solo players and ensembles. Anyone needing amplification, please bring your own amp. Meetings start with open mic time and often end with a half-hour Featured Performer set. Masks are encouraged but not required.
Our June featured performer will be fingerstyle master Mark Hanson.
About Artichoke Community Music
ACM is a non-profit organization dedicated to building community by creating an environment that preserves and enriches the rich folk music tradition.
Folk music is defined as the music of the people that has traditionally been passed along through oral history and linked with mainly acoustical instruments. It is the style of music often associated with Americana. The community we serve represents a broad spectrum of the metropolitan Portland/Vancouver population.
https://www.artichokemusic.org/About Mark Hanson, guitar
Grammy-Award winner Mark Hanson is a well known performer, author, and instructor in the acoustic guitar field. He has authored over two dozen guitar books/DVDs on a variety of topics, released 10 solo and group recordings, and contributed to numerous tribute CDs, one of which – Solid Air Records' Henry Mancini Pink Guitar – won a Grammy for best pop instrumental album in 2005.
A number of Mark's recordings have been – and are currently – heard on syndicated radio and television, including NPR, Martha Stewart Living and American Idol. Mark played for the President of the United States in 2009.
Mark and his wife, Greta Pedersen, founded Accent On Music LLC in 1985, publishing his many titles and hosting the annual Accent On Music Fingerstyle Guitar Seminar in Portland, Oregon. Performers/teachers such as Tommy Emmanuel, John Renbourn, Alex DeGrassi, and Laurence Juber have joined Mark for the fest.
Mark earned a music degree at Stanford University and performed and taught for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
https://markhansonguitar.com/