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The Ark
11/21/2009 8:00 PM at Willy Porter w/sg Luke Doucet
316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Cost: $17.50
Spend an evening with Willy Porter, and you’ll experience a rare communion between artist and audience. His concerts are one-of-a-kind events in which amazing guitar chops and hip songwriting merge into a single unit. Porter’s acoustic guitar skills have drawn comparisons with those of Leo Kottke, who drew the young Porter into music the first time he heard the "6 & 12 String Guitar" album. He continues to stretch each show by incorporating performance art, live audio looping, and improvisational sketch comedy. Each tour date becomes a unique event, a musical experience much greater than just a review of past, present and future recorded work. Willy comes to town with a new release, "How to Rob a Bank." Tonight’s special guest is Toronto’s Luke Doucet, who writes story songs in a rock format. He says that he knows all the good stories like the back of his hand, his palm is his family tree, and his fingers, spread wide as a web, are his means for his storytelling. The Toronto Star has called him the best young guitarist in Canada.
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