PORT ANGELES — The Juan de Fuca Foundation will present two guitar trios at a 6 p.m. Sunday performance.
The California Guitar Trio and Montreal Guitar Trio will perform together in a concert billed as CGT+MG3 at the Port Angeles Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave.
Tickets are $18 to $38; tickets for children age 14 and younger are $10.
Tickets are available online at www.jffa.org or in-person at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St.; and Dungeness Kids Co., 163 W. Washington St., Sequim.
CGT+MG3 features all six virtuoso guitarists from California Guitar Trio (CGT) and Montreal Guitar Trio (MG3).
Representing four countries — Japan, Canada, Belgium and the U.S. — they fuse more than 40 years of combined performing experience into one unique six-by-six-string “phenomensemble,” according to organizers.
CGT’s steel-stringed guitars blend with MG3’s nylon-stringed guitars, as each trio’s fret boards chase the other’s original compositions and new arrangements of progressive rock, world, jazz and classical music.
Inspired in 2009 by an impromptu studio session together in Montreal, CGT and MG3 released a live recording in 2011 which landed them showcases at numerous art presenter conferences and sustained co-bill touring throughout North America.
Their new studio release in 2019 refreshes the trios’ touring schedule in the coming seasons.
When both CGT+MG3 ensembles join forces, they perform some of the greatest rock classics from Queen, The Beatles and a few “spaghetti western” themes by Ennio Morricone, as well as some of their original compositions.
Starting in 2010, the sextet has toured across Canada and the United States, performing in over 100 cities.
