An Evening with Ray Ferrara

Name: An Evening with Ray Ferrara
Start: 2024-11-22T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-22T21:30:00-05:00
Location: 631 Irvin Street, Cornelia, GA, United States, Georgia 30531

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

631 Irvin Street, Cornelia, GA, United States, Georgia 30531 | Cornelia, GA

Ray found his voice and with his beloved Martin D35 guitar, his music evolved singing the inspiring songs of Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, John Prine, Steve Goodman, and many others. Ray was fortunate to further his guitar study with acoustic guitar blues legend Ian Buchannan, a disciple of Reverend Gary Davis. Ian also taught accomplished musicians such as Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna, and John Hammond Jr. Ray became proficient with his own fingerpicking and songwriting style, and by the early seventies he began performing over 100 shows a year throughout the New York City area. Ray became part of the scene, and it was an exciting time to be sharing the New York City music calendar with established and upcoming artists.
Ray's music was once described by Martin Kaufman of the Buffalo Record as “Ray’s originally composed and arranged tunes displayed his unparalleled prowess on guitar and harmonica, and his poetic musical talent”. Throughout the past 50 years Ray has played at many venues from the famous Gerdes Folk City and Pips in New York City to venues in Buffalo, Florida, Alta Utah, and Santa Fe.