Tony Cox to perform at Phansi Museum on March 12.He’s back! South Africa doesn’t seem to be the same without Tony Cox who is now living in the UK where he is carving out a whole new career for himself.
The three times SAMA award-winning acoustic guitar maestro returns to South Africa this months for a performance tour through the provinces. He left South Africa in 2008 and has since been busy on the world's stages performing to an ever-widening audience and appreciation.
Tony has made steady in-roads into several countries since moving to the UK in 2008. Canada in particular has seen a steady increase in awareness of his musical abilities; witnessed by the increased attendance figures at many of the venues he has performed in and visited for the second and third times. His album The Best of Tony Cox has been released through the retail outlets in Canada.
Italy has proved to be an exciting new audience with his one performance at the Madame International Guitar festival last September in Tricessimo, resulting in several creative, musical friendships and a return journey just months later to the Emmas festival in Sardegna which has then led to other festival offers for 2010.
The USA is also now proving to be a good playing ground with his last tour there, covering Colorado and California, yielding many invites for a return in 2010. His visit also led to an interview and performance filmed at the Red Kiva in Chicago for the africachannel on Sky TV in the UK and cable across the US.
Several recording projects lie ahead. In Canada he will begin work in June on new guitar music with extraordinary Canadian guitarist Ryan le Blanc. Ryan and Tony have toured together several times in Canada and have sparked a unique friendship that has also resulted in a unique guitar collaboration. While in Italy, another strong friendship was formed with one of Sardinia's finest guitar players, Alberto Balia. Neither can speak the other's language but no matter, because the music they make together knows no boundaries. They collaborated at the Emmas festival and appeared on stage together after a single day's rehearsal to a wild and appreciative audience. Recording and touring with Alberto is set for late in 2010.
In the UK, Tony Cox has already performed extensively at festivals, arts centres, folk clubs and other music venues and has just completed a delightful collaboration with young Scottish fiddlers at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland.
Tony Cox appears at Phansi Museum at 500 Esther Roberts Road (Formerly Frere Road) in Glenwood on March 12 at 20h00. Tickets R80. Bookings on 031 206 2889 or email: info@phansi.com Off-street parking and refreshments available.
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