California Guitar Trio, Kaki King at The Southgate House Revival – Sanctuary – Newport, KY

Get your tickets to see California Guitar Trio, Kaki King in Newport, KY. Happening on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at The Southgate House Revival – Sanctuary. Doors open at 7:30 PM.

The universe of guitar knows no boundaries for The California Guitar Trio. Since 1991, the group has enthralled listeners with a singular sound that fearlessly crisscrosses genres. The trios questing spirit drives it to explore the intersections between rock, jazz, classical, and world music. It even throws in the occasional surf or spaghetti Western tune for good measure. Comprised of Bert Lams, Tom Griesgraber and Paul Richards, the group has established a unique, personal connection with audiences. In addition to dazzling musicianship and interplay, The California Guitar Trios (CGT) shows are full of captivating stories and humor that enable concertgoers to feel like theyre part of the music, not just spectators. In fact, the groups CGTs 21 albums, streamed over 115 million times on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music, offer diverse snapshots of the groups mercurial muse. The trios output has made a major global impact, having served as the soundtrack for Olympics coverage, and programs on CNN, CBS, NBC, and ESPN. They have fans in high places too: NASA used their music to wake the crew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. CGTs lineup is truly the sum of its distinct parts: A Utah native now residing in Los Angeles, Paul Richards immersed himself in rock, blues, and jazz during his early days and while attending The University of Utahs jazz guitar program. While on and off the road, Paul enjoys doing landscape photography. Bert Lams, originally from Belgium, graduated from the prestigious Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, winning awards in classical guitar performance. Bert Lams currently lives with his family in Jupiter Florida. Tom Griesgraber, the only California native in the group, is from Encinitas. Tom is a virtuoso player of the Chapman Stick, a guitar/bass hybrid tapping instrument invented in California by Emmett Chapman. Tom is a graduate of the Berklee School of Music on Boston.Tokyo-born Hideyo Moriya began his guitar journey with surf music and British rock, before relocating to Boston to study at Berklee. Hideyo is currently on hiatus from touring and lives in Chiba Japan. Lams, Richards and Moriya felt the call to push themselves to the limit by enrolling in Robert Fripps challenging Guitar Craft courses, where they first met in 1987. They went on to tour together as part of Fripps League of Crafty Guitarists, before forming the California Guitar Trio in Los Angeles four years later. 31 years and 2000+ gigs later, the CGT remains intensely committed to explore, evolve and communicate a wide-ranging musical worldview. Anil Prasad

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