Weekend, Dec 21-22, 2024 – Christmas Concert & Best of

Trevor Gordon Hall In an Echoes Christmas Concert & Best of Echoes 2024

Its a big bounty of great music for Echoes Weekend Stations. You’ll get the full-on seasonal treatment with guitarist Trevor Gordon Hall in an Echoes Christmas Concert
and
you’ll hear the Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes.

Trevor Gordon Hall Christmas Concert

Trevor Gordon Hall is a master finger-style guitarist who also plays a custom-designed instrument called the Kalimbatar, that combines the African kalimba with an acoustic guitar. He’s a member of the quartet Four Guitars, which includes Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman, and the trio Tripliciti with Andy McKee and Calum Graham. NPR’s Tom Moon said Hall created “Sharp, absorbing and beautiful meditations for guitar that will get your mind moving in new ways…” and Acoustic Guitar Magazine said that Hall is “. . . helping to transform the way the instrument is being played around the world…”.  Based in Philadelphia, he’s released two albums of seasonal music, “Let Your Heart Be Light” and “Live at the Strand Theater: A Christmas Special”, the latter the soundtrack his new PBS special. We’ll hear him play that live. His concert will be surrounded by seasonal sounds.

Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes

Get your shopping list ready for The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes. It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 albums for your delight. Tonight we will run down the Top 20 on our 30 album list. You might want to see who is number one, but you will love who is 30. John Diliberto has The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes from PRX.

See the Complete List for The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes.

 

 

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