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After his recent two-year exercise composing, arranging, perfecting and recording his latest work, Perpendicular Worlds, guitar virtuoso Toulouse Engelhardt will return once more to the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 for another of his always-exciting live performances.  Doors will open at 6:00 PM, with show-time at 8:00. The club is located at 33157 Camino Capistrano, and tickets are $25.00. For dinner reservations, call (949) 496-8930; for information and directions, click here. To learn how to obtain a special bonus CD single, (a $4.99 value) FREE with your admission, purchase your tickets from Lost Grove Arts by clicking this link.

Engelhardt will open the show for headliner David Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band, El Rayo-X.  Multi-instrumentalist Lindley performs music that redefines the word “eclectic,” having long championed the concept of world music.  His electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources, and incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments.  Throughout his long and distinguished career, Lindley has been one of Hollywood's most in-demand session musicians, lending his skills to the recorded works of Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby and Nash, Warren Zevon, and many others.  In addition, his uncanny vocal mimicry and demented sense of humor make his onstage banter a highlight of the show.

One of the world's finest finger-style guitarists, who has toured nationally with The Byrds and Kenny Loggins, Engelhardt was the last member of the “Takoma Seven,” an elite club of guitar innovators that recorded for Takoma Records from 1964 to 1975 and included Leo Kottke and the late John Fahey. If you are a fan of acoustic guitar, you simply must experience the fantastic finger-work of this guitar virtuoso!

Los Angeles music journalist and author Harvey Kubernik sums it up: “When you see and experience the guitar artistry of Toulouse Engelhardt, you immediately become aware that the person in front of you has been a working professional since 1973.  In 2008 he is now going into sonic places with his fingers on the fretboard where few in the universe visit.”

“Guitar genius Toulouse Engelhardt is on the loose again!” - www.latimes.com

“The New Guitar God!” - L.A. Weekly

“One of my all-time favorite guitarists!” - David Lindley

Engelhardt will perform as direct support for headlining guitarist Lee Ritenour, well known for his forty year eclectic and storied career, highlighted by a Grammy Award win for his 1986 collaboration with Dave Grusin, Harlequin. Ritenour has received seventeen Grammy nominations, numerous #1 spots in guitar polls, and the prestigious "Alumnus of the Year" award from USC. He has recorded over forty albums, with thirty-five chart songs, notably the Top 15 hit "Is It You," which has become a contemporary jazz radio classic.

Growing up in L.A. in the '60s, Ritenour received a rich cross-section of exposure to jazz, rock and Brazilian music. One of his first sessions was at age 16 with the Mamas and the Papas, and he accompanied Lena Horne and Tony Bennett when he was 18.  In the '90s, Ritenour was a founding member of Fourplay, the most successful band in contemporary jazz, with keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason. The first Fourplay album in 1991 spent an unprecedented thirty-three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's contemporary jazz chart. Adding to this legacy is his latest CD Smoke 'n' Mirrors, the recently completed Grammy-nominated recording Amparo (with Dave Grusin), and his production of the latest CD from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Act Your Age, which is nominated for three Grammys.

One of the world's finest finger-style guitarists, Toulouse Engelhardt is a renowned master of the six and twelve string acoustic guitar, who has toured nationally with The Byrds, Kenny Loggins, and countless others. This Takoma Records alumnus was the last to join the elite club of guitar innovators that recorded for that label from 1959 to 1976 and included Leo Kottke and the late John Fahey. If you are a fan of acoustic guitar music, you simply must experience the fantastic finger-work of this guitar virtuoso, whose recordings and compositions have been heard on Britain's BBC television and will be featured in the upcoming movie, Jordan's River, to be released in summer 2009.

Los Angeles music journalist and author Harvey Kubernik sums it up: “When you see and experience the guitar artistry of Toulouse Engelhardt, you immediately become aware that the person in front of you has been a working professional since 1973.  In 2009 he is now going into sonic places with his fingers on the fretboard where few in the universe visit.”

“Guitar genius Toulouse Engelhardt is on the loose again!” - www.latimes.com

“One of my all-time favorite guitarists!” - David Lindley

“The New Guitar God!” - L.A. Weekly