Mary Flower concert - 3 Crows Delano, MN - April 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Mary Flower concert - 3 Crows Delano, MN
April 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Three Crows Cafe´ & Coffee House, 225 N River Street - Delano, Minnesota

Mary Flower is a world-class guitarist and lap slide player who swings the blues.  Along the way, she’s mastered the intricate, harmonically subtle Piedmont style, with its good-timey, ragtime feel. She’s a warm singer who ranges far in the byways of blues and jazz for the kind of down-home yet sophisticated material she feels comfortable with.

First and foremost, Mary Flower is a world-class guitarist and lap slide player who swings the blues.  Along the way, she’s mastered the intricate, harmonically subtle Piedmont style, with its good-timey, ragtime feel.

The Piedmont style forms the foundation of much of her work, but she’s an unrivaled interpreter of Mississippi blues and an ingenious composer in her own right whose tunes take American music into uncharted waters.    In the rarefied atmosphere where Mary operates, she’s recognized everywhere as one of the pre-eminent fingerstyle guitarists who continue in the rich acoustic blues tradition.  In fact, she’s twice placed in the top three at the prestigious National Fingerpicking Championship in Winfield, Kansas–the only woman to do so. That’s remarkable enough, but Flower goes beyond technique.  She’s a warm singer who ranges far in the byways of blues and jazz for the kind of down-home yet sophisticated material she feels comfortable with.   Mary brings smarts and sublime equipoise to her music–you’ll feel happier after listening to her!
Currently, Mary has been nominated in two categories, “Acoustic  Artist” and “Acoustic Album” for the 2012 Blues Music Awards presented by the Blues Foundation in Memphis in May of 2012.

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