om 8-11pm/CST. Headlining the event will be Monte Montgomery with special guests Willy Porter, Thom Bresh, McKenzies Mill, Tony McManus, and Muriel Anderson, the event founder. This event aims to raise funds that will allow K-12 school music initiatives to provide music education and instruments to children and to continue to grow stronger, more vibrant communities.
Madison, WI September 12, 2007 -- Madison Media Institute - College of Media Arts located in Madison, will present their Second Annual All Star Guitar Night Benefit Concert (www.barrymorelive.com), select local retailers, or from the Barrymore Theater Box Office directly at (608) 241-8864.
Now in its 15th year, All Star Guitar Night concerts feature the world's top guitar players all of whom perform to celebrate the guitar and support the Music for Life Alliance, which
supports music education for disadvantaged children.
Featuring Monte Montgomery with special guests Willy Porter, Thom Bresh, McKenzies Mill, Tony McManus, and Muriel Anderson, audiences will be treated to an eclectic mix of styles ranging
from acoustic finger style to jazz to electric blues and rock.
Widely respected as one of the country's foremost guitarists, Muriel Anderson is the first woman to have won the National Finger picking Guitar Championship. She is host and originator of
the renowned "Muriel Anderson's ALL STAR GUITAR NIGHT" and founder of the Music for Life Alliance, to support music education in schools and grassroots programs nationwide. Muriel fell in
love with the guitar at an early age and learned every style available to her, culminating in classical guitar study at DePaul University. She went on to study with classical virtuoso
Christopher Parkening and with Nashville legend Chet Atkins. She has composed music since about age six, and has written music for guitar and strings as well as songs, solo compositions,
choral and orchestral works.
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