Join us for a meeting of masters when mandolin legend David Grisman and Italian guitar virtuoso Beppe Gambetta take the Freight stage.

A brilliant mandolinist famed for forging his own musical path in his own inimitable way, David Grisman got his first job as a mandolin picker back in 1964 with Red Allen and the Kentuckians. An ardent innovator, David soon gave the genre his own personal spin in the form of "dawg" music, a unique, highly intricate, harmonically advanced hybrid of so many different stylistic influences (swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz, gypsy) that he had to invent a name for it. In addition to his own renowned groups like Old and In the Way, the David Grisman Quintet, and the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, David has recorded with everyone from the Grateful Dead to Stephane Grapelli to Bonnie Raitt, and made more than 40 recordings, including five Grammy nominees. David also starred in the 2001 film portrait made by his daughter Gillian, Grateful Dawg.

A gifted acoustic guitarist born in Genoa, Italy, Beppe began his musical training in a classical plectrum orchestra before drawing on traditional European and American guitar techniques to develop his own original style. He has spent decades touring Europe and America while rediscovering, teaching, and promoting flatpicking and other great guitar forms. Beppe has collaborated with masters of the acoustic scene on ambitious projects such as reviving and contemporizing the energy of the "brother" duets with guitar master Dan Crary.

In 2001, David and Beppe collaborated on the CD Traversata - Italian Music in America(Acoustic Disc), an extraordinary collection of romantic and classical music from Italian and Italian-American string virtuosos, ranging from Puccini to Nino Rota to Rudy Cipolla. Numbers from this collection, plus many others drawn from the deep repertoires of both these master musicians are sure to provide a rich, rewarding evening of beautiful music.

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