(Guy
Buttery)
Kicking off 2019 with concerts throughout
the USA and Brazil, multi-award winning artist Guy Buttery returns home for his
first nationwide solo tour of South Africa in over four years. The Intramural
Encounters Tour includes stops in every major city in South Africa covering
a distance of over 5000kms with a run of 15 concerts lined up around the
country. The tour kicks off in Buttery's hometown of Durban at the KZNSA
Gallery on April 5, 2019.
Buttery has propelled his career far beyond
the borders of his beloved South Africa. As an internationally recognized
musician, this multi-instrumentalist enjoys invitations to play sell-out
performances all over the globe. The USA, UK, Australia, France, Brazil, and
Italy have all welcomed him back year after year. However, to brand Guy Buttery
as one of South Africa’s musical phenomenons would be an injustice. He has grown
into so much more. His international role has surpassed merely playing shows to
foreign audiences. It has evolved into one as an ambassador of South African
music, inspiring people across the world with our homegrown style at the very
heart of his talent and tenacity. Buttery is our musical advocate for
everything positive and beautiful about the place we call home.
It’s no wonder he is so enthusiastic when
asked about his upcoming tour of South Africa. After numerous recent
collaborations with The Odeion String Quartet, The Eastern Cape Philharmonic
Orchestra, The Guy Buttery Trio and extensive touring of his World Music duo
with Indian sitar player, Kanada Narahari, Buttery returns with a string of
shows for what he is known best for. The solo concert.
“There is something so intimate and
humanistic about a solo show”, says Buttery. “One singular exchange of energy
between performer and audience always sheds a new light on the music. Each
performance offers up an inward gaze of self, hopefully for both the listener
as well as myself acting as some form of catalyst in this process. The Intramural Encounters Tour hopes to
bring this kind of introspection to every single concert showcasing a bunch of
newer and older compositions.”
Last year Buttery received the highest
accolade for a musician in South Africa and was awarded the Standard Bank Young
Artist Award. In almost four decades of honouring artists throughout the
country, this was the first time since its inception that the award was
presented to a musician outside of the classical music realm. Buttery’s debut album
in 2002, When I Grow Up... was
nominated for Best Instrumental and Best Newcomer at the South African Music
Awards (SAMA’s) making him the youngest nominee in the history of the event. He
then went on to win a SAMA in 2010, for his album Fox Hill Lane and again in 2014, for his first live concert
recording, Live in KwaZulu.
He has also received other major National
accolades including The Ovation Award in 2010, 2012 and again 2014 for his
performances at the National Arts Festival. He was then invited to perform his
works with the 52-piece KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Eastern
Cape Philharmonic and had his solo performances voted the “Top Live Show” by
The Cape Times. The media cited him “as one of South Africa’s finest exponents
of the acoustic guitar.”
Expect high dynamics, ethereal
fingerpicking, delicate African inflections and mind-bending guitar playing of
an entirely new order from Guy Buttery.
Buttery will appear at the KZNSA Gallery on
April 5. The Café opens at 17h00 with the concert starting at 19h00. Entrance R120
at the door.
The KZNSA is situated at 166 Bulwer Road,
Glenwood in Durban. For more information contact Angela Shaw on
ashaw@kznsagallery.co.za or 083 384 3660
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