Mike Dawes

Name: Mike Dawes
Start: 2024-08-17T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Myron's at The Smith Center

Schedule

Sat Aug 17 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Myron's at The Smith Center | Las Vegas, NV

Mike Dawes is an English guitarist known for composing, arranging and performing multiple parts simultaneously on a single guitar. He is regarded as one of the world’s most creative modern fingerstyle guitarists with a repertoire spanning original viral videos and popular arrangements, alongside mainstream chart success performing with Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues.
Dawes was named “Best Acoustic Guitarist In The World” two years in a row (2017 and 2018) by Total Guitar Magazine and MusicRadar Reading Polls, with numerous second-place rankings in the proceeding years.
His debut release, a solo guitar arrangement of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” quickly became a viral hit with tens of millions of views on YouTube, a success duplicated and expanded upon numerous times since with songs like “One,” “The Impossible” and “Jump” across multiple video platforms. His third studio album is anticipated for release in 2024.