The incredibly unique guitarist Shane Parish is coming back to Tallahassee – save the date if you want to hear some phenomenal guitar work, original tunes and mind-blowing interpretations.

'Shane Parish is a relentless interpreter. The guitarist's catalog is full of folk songs, sea shanties and the Chet Baker Sings album thoughtfully and playfully mangled. (Parish also notated and arranged Bill Orcutt's Music for Four Guitars for, well, four guitars — their Tiny Desk is raucously joyful.) His latest album, Repertoire, takes on Aphex Twin, Minutemen and Alice Coltrane songs, but I keep coming back to Parish's version of "Lonely Woman." The original was perhaps the closest we ever got to a "pop" song by free jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman — the way his saxophone slides the melody with pocket trumpeter Don Cherry has such as slinky je ne sais quoi. Curiously, on acoustic guitar, Parish doesn't use a slide to recreate that effect; rather, he reconstructs the melody around bluesy bends, hammer-ons and overtones — the "Lonely Woman" becomes a phantom.

'Athens, Georgia-based guitarist Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive musicianship. He is a self-taught player who communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety, simultaneously drawing from the guitar’s history and aiming for its future.

'He records and performs as a soloist, as a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, and, for over 20 years, he has led the avant-rock band Ahleuchatistas. He is also a highly in-demand educator.'

—Lars Gotrich, NPR

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