Pat Kirtley in concert

Join us for an extraordinary afternoon of beautiful intricate and original guitar music. Drawing from Irish Brazilian to American pop and traditional music Pat Kirtley shaped his distinctive style rooted in the thumbpicking tradition of Merle Travis and Chet Atkins.

Pat Kirtley from Bardstown Kentucky is an acclaimed American fingerstyle guitarist composer and

educator whose work has brought distinction to Kentucky’s musical heritage.  He emerged as a solo performer in the 1990s gaining national recognition when he won the National Thumbpicking Contest (1994) and the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship (1995).

His debut album Kentucky Guitar was critically praised and followed by a prolific recording career

spanning multiple genres—Celtic Brazilian folk and contemporary acoustic music.

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