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Leo Kottke

Since 1945

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Sat Dec 5 St Paul, United States · Ordway Tickets
Sat Jan 9 Stuart, United States · Lyric Theatre Tickets
Sun Jan 10 Ft Lauderdale, United States · Broward Center for the Performing Arts Tickets
Wed Jan 13 Clearwater, United States · Bilheimer Capitol Theatre Tickets
Fri Jan 15 Ocala, United States · Reilly Arts Center Tickets
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Fri Jan 22 Atlanta, United States · Variety Playhouse Tickets
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Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an American acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He has overcome a series of personal obstacles, including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand, to emerge as a widely recognized master of his instrument. He resides in the Minneapolis area with his family.

Focusing primarily on instrumental composition and playing, Kottke also sings sporadically, in an unconventional yet expressive baritone described by himself as sounding like "geese farts on a muggy day". In concert, Kottke intersperses humorous and often bizarre monologues with vocal and instrumental selections from throughout his career, played solo on six- and 12-string guitars.

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Leo Kottke, né le 11 septembre 1945 à Athens dans l'État de Géorgie, États-Unis d'Amérique, est un guitariste acoustique.

Il utilise des techniques de fingerpicking, s'inspirant de genre musicaux comme le blues, le jazz, et la musique folk, avec ses rythmes syncopés et les sons polyphoniques qu'il arrive à produire avec ses guitares signature six et douze cordes. Il se sert très souvent de l'accordage en open tuning.

Se focalisant tout d'abord sur des compositions instrumentales qu'il interprète, Leo Kottke migre peu à peu vers la chanson, chantant dans un style baryton non conventionnel mais néanmoins expressif qu'il décrit lui-même par une phrase restée célèbre comme sonnant comme « des pets d'oies par une journée étouffante ».

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