Friday, December 9
Doors 6:00PM | Show 7-10:00PM
Reserved Seat Tickets $44.50++, $49.50++, $52++
VIP Meet ad Greet $75++
Legendary jazz guitarist Peter White’s career started under unfortunate circumstances. White—a teenager during the hey day of rock guitar legends like Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix—was immediately drawn to the electric guitar as soon as he learned a few chords. The teenager convinced his parents to buy him an electric guitar and he obsessed over its sound. Once the guitar was destroyed in a fire that his brother Danny started—something that took his brother 25 years to admit—White moved back to acoustic and changed his style and approach. “I had been kind of obsessed with the electric guitar at that point in my life, so that episode kind of forced me to go back to playing the acoustic. In retrospect, that’s a good thing,” White said.
The shift happened almost over night. White engrossed himself in the music of folk artists like Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and James Taylor. He developed a love for acoustic music that in 1975 landed him a job in Al Stewart’s band, just two years after finishing high school and while working factory jobs to make ends meet.
White’s 20-year run with Stewart produced several pivotal moments in his music career: he is on Stewart’s iconic single, “Year of the Cat,” playing the memorable acoustic guitar solo in the song’s bridge. He co-wrote Stewart’s other major international hit, “Time Passages,” and the two eventually moved to Los Angeles to form a new band and start a publishing company.
In the 1990s White launched his solo career as a jazz guitarist, a path he is on to this day. After nearly four decades of recording and performing, White maintains that it’s his fans that drive his passion for music the most, “I’ll play a live show and someone will come to me afterward and say, ‘Oh, I loved this CD,’ or ‘This song helped me through a bad time.’ Or I get emails form people saying, ‘Oh, I love the way you covered one of my favorite songs on your record back in 1994,” White said. “The idea that someone can write me an email and tell me about something I did on a record that was released fifteen years ago—you can’t buy that. That’s priceless. That’s what keeps me going—the idea that people out there really care about what I do, the idea that I’ve made a difference for someone.”
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