Festival

About the festival

Exploring virtually every aspect of the guitar’s personality, the New York Guitar Festival, since 1999, has presented many of the world’s most influential guitarists at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Brookfield Place Winter Garden, and 92nd Street Y, and . From multiple Grammy-winners to emerging artists, Festival performers have included masters of the classical repertoire (Pepe Romero, Christopher Parkening, Ana Vidović, Nigel North) as well as blues & jazz (Taj Mahal, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bill Frisell, Sonny Landreth), pop & indie rock (Vernon Reid, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Iver, Andy Summers, Thurston Moore), and folk & Americana (Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Cindy Cashdollar, Leo Kottke) as well as sounds of Central & South America (Badi Assad, Yamandu Costa, Vinicius Cantuária) and genre-defying innovators (Kaki King, David Torn, Daniel Lanois, Bryce Dessner). In addition to producing eclectic, multi-genre concerts and radio broadcasts, commissioning new works, and supporting innovative collaborations among outstanding artists, its Guitar Harvest series of recordings supports innovative outreach programs in our public schools.

 The New York Guitar Festival: Dedicated to guitar music from across the centuries. . . and of music yet to be. 

PERFORMERS SINCE 1999

Rez Abbasi • Ben Allison • Alsarah and the Nubatones • Amadeus Guitar Duo •
Joseph Arthur • Badi Assad • The Assad Duo • Nicole Atkins • Sheryl Bailey •
Jeff Ballard • Pierre Bensusan • Luke Bergman • Will Bernard • Rafiq Bhatia •
Krishna Bhatt • Debashish Bhattacharya • Victor Biglione • Rory Block • Oren
Bloedow • Roy Book Binder • Kevin Breit • Anouar Brahem Trio • Brasil Guitar
Duo • Brazilian Guitar Quartet • Matt Brewer • David Bromberg • Bob Brozman •
Jorge Cabellero • Califone • Jim Campilongo • Campbell Brothers • Larry
Campbell • California Guitar Trio • Larry Campbell • Laura Cantrell •
Vinicius Cantuaria • Steve Cardenas • Dylan Carlson • Rosanne Cash • Cindy
Cashdollar • Louis Cato • Knox Chandler • Jen Chapin Trio • Samir Chatterjee •
Chocolate Genius Inc. • Keba Cissoko • Gerald Cleaver • Shana Cleveland •
Nels Cline • Coco Mamas • Scott Colley • Larry Coryell • Yamandu Costa •
William Coulter • Marshall Crenshaw • Stephan Crump • David Cullen • Marta
Pereira da Costa • Colin Davin • Dominic John Davis • Alex de Grassi • Adam
Del Monte • Bryce Dessner • Mamadou Diabate • Abdoulaye Diabate • Jon Diaz •
Luther Dickinson • DJ Rekha • DJ Spooky • Russell Donnellon • Trevor Dunn •
Duo Siquieria/Lima • Roland Dyens • Mark Eitzel • Chris Eldridge • Liberty
Ellman Trio • EMA • Banning Eyre • Fantastic Negrito • The Ferdinandos •
Howard Fishman • Eliot Fisk • Dom Flemons • Pino Forastiere • Ruthie Foster •
Dominic Frasca • Bill Frisell • Fred Frith • Kevin Gallagher • Jacob Garchik •
Buke & Gase • Ed Gerhard • A.J. Ghent • Ralph Gibson • David Gilmore •
Margaret Glaspy • Mick Goodrick • Mike Gordon • Goran Ivanovic + Fareed Haque
Duo • Stephen Griesgraber • Derek Gripper • Binky Griptite •  Steve Gunn •
Mary Halvorsen • John Hammond • Knut Hamre • The Harlem Quartet • Emmlyou
Harris • Jesse Harris • Joel Harrison • Alvin Youngblood Hart • Warren Haynes •
Ernie Hawkins • Gilad Hekselman • Levon Helm • Megan Hickey • Patrick
Higgins • Jolie Holland • James Hurt • Jason Isbell • Sharon Isbin •
Itsnotyouitsme • Vijay Iyer • Stevie Jackson • Daniel James • JIJI • Glenn
Jones • Richard Julian • Valerie June • Vic Juris • Henry Kaiser • William
Kanengiser • Kaia Kater • Dale Kavanagh • Jorma Kaukonen • Lenny Kaye •
Alberta Khoury • Amythyst Kiah • Kid Millions • Steve Kimock • Kevn Kinney •
Kaki King • King Wilkie • Dennis Koster • Leo Kottke • Sergio Krakowski •
Andre LaFosse • Julian Lage • Sonny Landreth • Daniel Lanois • Laraaji •
Larkin Poe • Patty Larkin • Jim Lauderdale • Ismail Lawal • David Leisner •
Greg Leisz • Lionheart • Romero Lubambo • Gary Lucas • Virginia Luque •
Russell Malone • Michael Manring • Harry Manx • Martha Masters • Ronn
McFarlane • Bill McHenry • John Medeski • Ava Mendoza • Camila Meza • Ben
Monder • Thurston Moore • Bill Morrissey • David Mozqueda • Wolfgang
Muthspiel • My Brightest Diamond • The National • Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo •
New World Guitar Trio • Michael Nicolella • Jimmy Norman • Nigel North •
Noveller • Paul O’Dette • Miles Okazaki • Ollabelle • Christopher Parkening •
Jeff Parker • The Persuasions • Ben Perowsky • Kelly Joe Phelps • Anthony
Pirog • Bucky Pizzarelli • Chris Potter • Rachael & Vilray Lee Ranaldo •
Toshi Reagon • Redhooker • Vernon Reid • John Renbourn • Fabi Reyna •
Sterling Rhyne • Tony Rice • Marc Ribot • Gyan Riley • Terry Riley • Adam
Rogers • Pepe Romero • Brandon Ross • Peter Rowan • Pietro Russino •  Pablo
Sáinz Villegas • Jacob Sacks • Sap Dream Electric Guitar Quartet • Julia Sarr
& Patrice LaRose • Savila • Mike Seeger • Emanuele Segre • Sessa • Sex Mob •
Connie Sheu • Anupam Shobhakar • Simon Shaheen • Elliott Sharp • Michelle
Shocked • Brad Shepik • Connie Sheu • Bill Sims Jr. • Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky
Thunder • GE Smith • Hopkinson Smith • Laura Snowden • Tyshawn Sorey • Tim
Sparks • Bruce Springsteen • David Starobin • Leni Stern • Mark Stewart •
Marty Stuart • Andy Summers • Taj Mahal • Stomu Takeishi • Otis Taylor •
Marija Temo • Teddy Thompson • Steve Tibbetts • Tin Hat Trio • David Torn •
Artie Traum • Tony Trischka • Dave Tronzo • Toubab Krewe • Abdoulaye
Alhassane Toure • Vieux Farka Toure • Turtle Island String Quartet • Twi the
Humble Feather • William Tyler • Benjamin Verdery • Ana Vidovic • Jason
Vieaux • Frank Vignola • Jennifer Vincent • Martha Wainwright • Little Toby
Walker • Ryley Walker • Trixie Whitley • Keller Williams • Yasmin Williams •
Jontavious Willis • George Winston • Jozef van Wissem • Jim Woodring • Min
Xiao-Fen • Yale Guitar Orchestra • Brandee Younger • Dan Zanes • Fabio Zanon •
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn • Tengyue Zhang • Zubot + Dawson  

 

 

 

THANK YOU to our sponsors

Over the years, these organizations have played a critical role in our success:

Apple

J. D'Addario & Company

The John & Joan D'Addario Foundation

The Augustine Foundation

WNYC - New York Public Radio

ArtsBrookfield

Brooklyn Brewery

As well as: WFUV, 90.5 The Night, Guitar.com, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, Guitar Player, Relix, Flavorpill, JamBase, Guitar Center, Avalon Guitars, Marshall, Korg, Vox.

 

Our sister festivals

ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival 

The Adelaide International Guitar Festival