An Evening With Pat Metheny at The National Concert Hall

Twenty-time Grammy winning guitarist Pat Metheny has announced an extended run of dates around the world for 2017 under the auspices of “An Evening with Pat Metheny”. Recently inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame as its youngest member and only the fourth guitarist (joining Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery), Metheny will present a range of music from throughout his career.

After the massive worldwide successes of his Grammy winning Unity Band and Unity Group records and the extensive touring that followed, Metheny took a bit of a break in 2015. “This past year is the first time I have taken any real time off since 1994. It was great to be able to practice, do some research and start the process of developing some ideas that I have had cooking for a while”....

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Twenty-time Grammy winning guitarist Pat Metheny has announced an extended run of dates around the world for 2017 under the auspices of “An Evening with Pat Metheny”. Recently inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame as its youngest member and only the fourth guitarist (joining Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery), Metheny will present a range of music from throughout his career.

After the massive worldwide successes of his Grammy winning Unity Band and Unity Group records and the extensive touring that followed, Metheny took a bit of a break in 2015. “This past year is the first time I have taken any real time off since 1994. It was great to be able to practice, do some research and start the process of developing some ideas that I have had cooking for a while”.

While 2015 may have been less active than usual for Metheny on the touring front, he nevertheless created the critically acclaimed large scale work Hommage for Eberhard Weber and performed it at events in Europe, Japan and America. He also served as Artist-in-Residence for the Detroit Jazz Festival performing with his own ensembles, his longtime associate Gary Burton and a newly formed duet partnership with legendary Miles Davis bassist Ron Carter.

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