Celtic Guitarist Returns to Malta High School Auditorium

The Phillips County Library is pleased to once again welcome acclaimed Celtic fingerstyle guitarist Jerry Barlow in concert. The event will be held on Thursday, September 13, at 7 p.m. at the Malta High School Auditorium in Malta. The program is sponsored by the Library and is free to the public. Light refreshments will be served following the performance.

This year’s repertoire is entitled For the Love of Celtic Music and features many songs that audience members will know – even if they don’t know the origins. Jerry will fill in the history, legend, and lore behind the music! There will be ample opportunity for some toe-tapping, some sing-along, and even some step dancing if one is so inclined.

“In concert, Jerry brings traditional Celtic tunes alive by sharing the history, humor, and legends behind the music. Jerry Barlow … a performer who is skilled, funny and riveting. Out of the many musicians’ performing today, the vast majority are skilled in either performing on their instrument or in entertaining an audience. It’s very rare and extremely enjoyable to see a musician at the very top of his craft in both areas,” says Scott Beach, Director of Colorado Celtic Entertainment.

Barlow’s latest CD, Voyage of Hope, was released in October of 2016 and features pieces about the Irish immigration to America. His 2011 recording, Fields and Fences, was one of five nominees for Instrumental Album of the Year by the Independent Music Awards. The Indie Acoustic Project selected the title song from Jerry’s CD, Bring Down the Storm, as “one of the best songs of 2006.”

Music from all of Barlow’s recordings can be heard regularly on National Public Radio stations. He has been featured in Fingerstyle Guitar magazine and was profiled in Celtic Connection. He has performed in the Gates Auditorium for the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, the Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, and is a favorite of High Plains Public Radio’s Living Room Concert Series in Amarillo, Texas.

For more information, contact the Library at 406.654.2407 or visit http://www.jerrybarlow.com.