The fourth and final night of the 2022 festival features the space-Americana and pastoral country stylings of guitarist, composer, and collaboratorWilliam Tyler. Also, there’s a fado-tinged set from bandleader, composer, and soloistMarta Pereira da Costa, the world’s first and only female professional player of the Portuguese Guitar (a double six-stringed, teardrop-shaped instrument traditionally played by men.) WNYC's John Schaefer hosts.

This third night features Brazilian polymathBadi Assad, who is a guitarist, yes, and…a singer, percussionist, keyboardist, and dancer. Also, on the third night, the possibly cosmic and definitely virtuosic shimmering fire of guitarist and composerVernon Reidtogether with multi-instrumentalistLaraaji, perhaps on zither. WNYC's John Schaefer hosts.

Join us for the second of four nights celebrating spectacular guitar talents features American jazz (and country, West African, classical, improvisatory) guitarist, composer, and bandleaderBill Frisell, together with bassist, guitarist, and pedal steel playerLuke Bergman. Also joining on night two is the guitarist and composerGyan Riley, whose talent also ranges and roams, spanning jazz, world music, new music, and post-minimalism. WNYC's John Schaefer hosts.

This is the first of four nights of a celebration of today’s most dazzling guitar talents and features Malian guitar virtuosoVieux Farka Touré, son of the legendary West African blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré and a leading figure on the global music scene. The series opens withGlenn Jones, an inventive, and evocative fingerpicking guitar player of the “American primitive” style. WNYC'S John Schaefer hosts.