The St. Johns Cultural Council and Gamble Rogers Folk Festival present Richard Smith and Michael Jordan “Live from The Waterworks” on January 20, 2024.
The Gamble Rogers Concert Series celebrates the legendary recording artist Gamble Rogers, whose balladry and storytelling shaped American folk music, on the third Saturday of each month.
Doors at 6:30, show starts at 7 PM.
Tickets are $20 and are available on Eventbrite.
Purchase a premium ticket package for $100, which includes tickets to all three of our winter concerts featuring ... view more »
The St. Johns Cultural Council and Gamble Rogers Folk Festival present Richard Smith and Michael Jordan “Live from The Waterworks” on January 20, 2024.
The Gamble Rogers Concert Series celebrates the legendary recording artist Gamble Rogers, whose balladry and storytelling shaped American folk music, on the third Saturday of each month.
Doors at 6:30, show starts at 7 PM.
Tickets are $20 and are available on Eventbrite.
Purchase a premium ticket package for $100, which includes tickets to all three of our winter concerts featuring Jontavious Willis on February 17th and Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley with local legend Larry Mangum on March 16th. Premium ticket holders are seated in the first three rows of the venue and receive sponsor recognition for the concert series and a voucher for a complimentary beverage at each of the three shows.
ABOUT RICHARD SMITH
“The most amazing guy I know on the guitar. He can play anything I know, only better.” Chet Atkins
World-renowned guitarist Richard Smith has impressed audiences around the globe with his virtuoso fingerpicking.
Smith is the winner of the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship, held in Kansas in 2001. In 2008, he was named Thumbpicker of the Year by The National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 2009). In 2011, the Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists presented Smith with its Golden Thumbpick Award.
Richard’s repertoire comprises a wide variety of music from classical Bach to Beatles pop, Scott Joplin Rags, Chopin, Mozart, and fiddle tunes. It ranges from jazz standards to Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed and to Django Reinhardt’s gypsy swing, as well as intriguing originals.
ABOUT MICHAEL JORDAN
Michael Jordan melds precise percussion with open and irregular tunings to create a vibrant and aesthetically captivating performance that is sure to inspire and mesmerize his audience. His original material ranges from southern rock to delta blues and Americana folk.
Don’t miss this very special opportunity in America’s oldest city, St. Augustine.
The Waterworks is an intimate, historic venue (built in 1898 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places) and only 120 tickets are available.
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