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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

JOHNNY WINTER’S LEAD GUITARIST TO LEAD MASTER CLASS @ SOPAC

clip_image001GUITAR CLASS LED BY PAUL NELSON
WHEN: 3 PM on Saturday, March 8
WHERE:
SOPAC Loft, One SOPAC Way, South Orange
COST: $40
www.SOPACnow.org

South Orange Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce a one-hour special guitar master class led by Paul Nelson, who will be joined by Johnny Winter’s band.

The class is being held in conjunction with an evening performance by Winter and his band that evening. Nelson, who has played with classic rocker Johnny Winter since 2003, has a career spanning albums and bands as well as compositions of pieces for television broadcasts. The class will feature instruction on the blues, rock, scales, chords and theories for guitar players of all levels. All participants encouraged to bring their own guitar to the class.

PaulNelson_webPhoto[1]A hired gun with countless worldwide touring acts, Paul Nelson is credited as composer and performer for the music heard on international and national television broadcasts such as NBC, TNN, UPN, and for the WWE. Nelson, who studied with Steve Vai and both fusion greats Steve Khan and Mike Stern, released his first highly acclaimed all instrumental rock/fusion solo release, Look in early 2000. Nelson has performed live and/or on recordings along side a list of today's top artists such as Johnny Winter, Leslie West, Billy Gibbons, Robben Ford, Slash, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, Sonny Landreth, Robben Ford, Los Lobos, Kim Wilson, Elvin Bishop, Dr. John, Brian Setzer, Mark Knophler, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Steve Morse, John Popper, Derek Trucks, Marty Friedman, Susan Tedeschi, Larry Carlton, Steve Vai, Vinnie Moore, Joe Louis Walker, Hubert Sumlin, Rick Derringer, Harvey Brooks, Bill Evans, James Cotton, John Medeski, Magic Slim, Coco Montoya, Reese Wynans, Edgar Winter, Ray Davis, George Lynch, James Cotton, Anthony Jackson, Dickey Betts, Junior Brown, Jimmy Vivino and La Bamba of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Paul Schaefer's CBS Ochestra and the Blues Brother Horns. Nelson is a current member of Johnny Winter's worldwide touring band and is currently working on Winter's latest album, Step Back for Megaforce/Sony. Watch Paul Nelson perform "Dust My Broom" with Johnny Winter live on The Late Show with David Letterman.