BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Pierre Bensusan X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220426T080000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220426T080000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pierre Bensusan DESCRIPTION:ADVANCE PURCHASE: $25\nAT THE DOOR: $35\n10% MEMBER DISCOUNT \n\n“The way the guitar would want to sound if it played itself.”\n\ nAcoustic guitar virtuoso and vocalist Pierre Bensusan has taken his uni que sound to all corners of the globe. Winner of the Independent Music A ward in the Live Performance Album category for his triple live album Encore”\, voted Best World Music guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine reader’s Poll\, Pierre is recognized as one of the greatest guitar pla yers of the 21st century.\n\nBorn in Oran\, French-Algeria\, in 1957\, w hen France was decolonizing its Empire\, Pierre Bensusan’s family move d to Paris when he was 4. He began formal studies on piano at the age of 7 and at 11 taught himself guitar. Influenced in those early days by th e folk revival blooming in Britain\, France and North America\, Bensusan began first to explore his own diverse musical heritage and then moved to the horizons beyond. He signed his first recording contract at 17\, a nd one year later his first album\, “Près de Paris »\, won the Grand Prix du Disque upon his debut at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland.\ n\nDescribed by the L.A. Times as “one of the most unique and brillian t acoustic guitar veterans in the world music scene today”\, Pierre’ s name became synonymous with contemporary acoustic guitar genius\, long before the terms New Age or World Music were invented. He has literally created a style of playing with the ability to make a single guitar sou nd like an entire band as he brings the audience on a mesmerizing musica l journey. And yet\, Bensusan is more than what any musician or music lo ver expects from a guitarist. He is a composer as well as a bilingual an d original and improvisational vocalist\, with his own scat technique.\n \nImmortalised by the tune ‘Bensusan’ written in tribute by the late Michael Hedges\, and referenced as an important inspiration to many oth er great musicians\, Pierre Bensusan is a one-of-a-kind artist whose mus ic transcends genre and time\, with an uninhibited sense of musical free dom and expression\, a sense of something both playful and serious\, oth erworldly yet right here right now. His “manner” of playing defies c lassification – crossing world\, classical\, jazz\, traditional\, folk \, pop and more. None can be isolated as simply “World Music”\, “C eltic”\, “Arabic” or “French”\; rather\, they represent Pierre ’s genuine vocabulary and the best part of our world in its current st ate\, a world sharing itself. Not to be missed!\n\nIMPORTANT COVID-19 IN FORMATION\nEffective immediately\, we will no longer require proof of va ccination or masks at our shows.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: additional COVID-19 pro tocols beyond the venue policy MAY be required by a specific artist or b and. PLEASE REFER TO THE SPECIFIC EVENT PAGE for the event you are atten ding for the most up to date information.\n\nTICKETING TERMS &\; COND ITIONS\nOne Longfellow Square does not assume liability\; the ticket hol der will assume all risks involved. By purchasing a ticket to this event you agree to assume full liability for any risks incurred before\, duri ng\, and after the event and agree to the current Terms of Use. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/pierre-bensusan/ UID:urn:uuid:a2d9aaae-ed0f-476a-85fe-8795515ba6ab STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260530T120840Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR