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'Live! At The Ryman' highlights Tommy Emmanuel as a master guitarist and also encapsulates a landmark moment for the musician. Filled with his complex fingerstyle technique and energetic performances, the album captures a special night of music in Nashville on February 27, 2016 at the historic Ryman Auditorium. He is joined by he is joined on stage by Steve Wariner and John Knowles. "I hope those who hear this recording will be uplifted and feel the love we felt for the people who poured their joy into the Ryman Auditorium that February night!" says Tommy Emmanuel.

Acrobat has devoted a number of collections to the blues guitarists and singers who represent what is known as the Piedmont school of blues – artists whose roots were in the region surrounding Atlanta, Georgia, and developed a distinctive style of blues during the late 1920s and through the ‘30s, the best-known names including Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Curley Weaver, Josh White,

With a compositional style that's relaxing as well as inventive, acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Yasmin Williams specializes in lap tapping, a technique that involves playing the guitar with both hands over the fretboard as it rests face-up on the player's lap. Incorporating tapped harmonics, bowing, percussive strikes, alternative tunings, and even tap shoes into her sound, she landed on the Billboard Heatseekers chart with her debut album, 2018's Unwind. Williams' second album, 2021's Urban Driftwood, was a critical breakout, earning widespread acclaim and a subsequent label deal with Nonesuch. She made her label debut in 2024 with Acadia, an album that featured guest vocalists like Aoife O'Donovan and Darlingside.

The world-renowned fingerstyle guitarist and blues historian Stefan Grossman’s BBC recordings anthologised on 4CDs.

With a compositional style that's relaxing as well as inventive, acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Yasmin Williams specializes in lap tapping, a technique that involves playing the guitar with both hands over the fretboard as it rests face-up on the player's lap. Incorporating tapped harmonics, bowing, percussive strikes, alternative tunings, and even tap shoes into her sound, she landed on the Billboard Heatseekers chart with her debut album, 2018's Unwind. Williams' second album, 2021's Urban Driftwood, was a critical breakout, earning widespread acclaim and a subsequent label deal with Nonesuch. She made her label debut in 2024 with Acadia, an album that featured guest vocalists like Aoife O'Donovan and Darlingside.

With "Two" guitarist Peter Groesdonk presents his second musical release. The album was created over a long period of time and is thus inspired by a wide variety of phases, influences, places and people. In the individual pieces hide very individual stories and emotions. With the classical guitar technique as a foundation, the album develops in all directions: The arrangements are created in fingerstyle, with percussive effects, pop and funk inspired elements and retuned guitar. In the process, Groesdonk moves through the sound worlds as if it were a matter of course - whether on nylon guitar or steel strings.

It is, simply - ragtime guitar. These lessons meet two goals. First, to create versions of some of the most beautiful classical rags that 'lay down' well on guitar, so when you play them you are working with the instrument, not fighting it.

Though they have both passed on, their highly influential recordings are still enjoyed by fans and studied carefully by aspiring acoustic guitarists and folk singers. Doc in particular is considered to be one of the most important flatpick guitarists of the 20th century, and his fingerstyle playing is also highly regarded. His son, Merle, who excelled at guitar and banjo, had served for many years as his father’s accompanist.

Fresh off his win at the 2024 World Entertainment Awards in Hollywood for Finesse, which was named 'Best Tropical Album', guitarist-composer Sergio Pereira is back with more soothing sounds to uplift the soul.