“Astonishing energy”—Down Beat

The California Guitar Trio plays progressive rock, surf music, jazz, blues, country, probably the definitive version of "Bohemian Rhapsody," and some traditional North African and Asian sounds for good measure. And did you hear them at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, playing the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, minus the voices but with pretty much everything else pretty much intact? Like most Californians, most of the members of the California Guitar Trio all come from someplace else: Bert Lams is Belgian, Paul Richards is from Salt Lake City, and Chapman Stick wizard Paul Griesgraber came from California but studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Lams and Richards pushed themselves to the limit by enrolling in Robert Fripp's challenging Guitar Craft courses, where they first met in 1987. They went on to tour together as part of Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists before forming The California Guitar Trio in Los Angeles four years later. The CGT is a melding of diverse talents unlike anything you've heard before, and one you can't afford to miss!

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