PORT LUDLOW — At guitar camp, the Nashville man and the guy from New Zealand hit it off.
It was 2005 when Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb first met at this camp out at fellow guitarist Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch in Pomeroy, Ohio.
Barrigar was one who had been wowing audiences ever since he was a 6-year-old guitarist playing Chet Atkins’ “Yakety Axe” at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry.
Mazengarb, had begun his musical schooling on the other side of the world, in New Zealand — and then found out about bluegrass while an exchange student in North Carolina.
Now the two are known as Loren and Mark, a world-touring act headed for the Bay Club this Friday with their mix of Western music, bluegrass and jazz — all played in the style pioneered by Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed.
The nonprofit Port Ludlow Performing Arts series will feature the singer-guitarists at 7:30 p.m. at the venue, 120 Spinnaker Place, with doors and bar opening at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets at $24 at the Bay Club while information — and samples of Loren and Mark’s music — await at www.PortLudlowPerformingArts.com.
The duo, which is traveling across Europe, Canada and the United States these days, is known to acoustic-music fans for appearances on NPR’s “Says You” and “WoodSong’s Old Time Radio Hour” and for their original track “Onward,” which won the Best Instrumental trophy at 2012’s International Acoustic Music Awards.
Those who come early to Friday’s concert will have a chance to see the Port Ludlow Artists’ League show at the Bay Club.
Three members will display their work: Jeanne Joseph, who creates painted canvas rugs, Eleanor Watson-Gove, who makes jewel-toned pottery, and Jim Watson-Gove, a painter who, after discovering the Expressionists in the 1950s and Abstract Expressionism shortly after, has never looked back.
After Loren and Mark on Friday, the Port Ludlow Performing Arts series has two more shows in its season: ventriloquist-comedienne Lynn Trefzgerv on Friday, March 20, and classical-gypsy-tango group Quartetto Gelato on Saturday, April 18.
The PortLudlowPerformingArts.com site has the information.
