The Triangle Guitar Society
Serving guitar enthusiasts in the Triangle since 1988

PRESS RELEASE: Triangle Guitar Society Benefit Concert
FROM: Michael Hardy, TGS Publicity Director

Alone and Together, A Benefit Concert by Local Guitarists, Randy Reed and Dennis Aberle, featuring Ariel Reed, Soprano

Randy Reed and Dennis Aberle will perform a guitar concert at 8:00 PM, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005 at the Carrboro Century Center, corner of Greensboro & Weaver St., downtown Carrboro. The concert hopes to raise money for the Triangle Guitar Society.  Admission is free, but donations will be greatly appreciated.

Carrboro Century Center
100 N. Greensboro St.
Carrboro, 27510
918-7365

The program will highlight the Spanish and Latin American roots and influences of the guitar in works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Maximo Diego Pujol, Agustin Barrios, and Jorge M. Zarate.  Ariel Reed, Soprano, will join her father in performing Roberto Gehard’s Cantares (Seven Spainish Folk Songs) for voice and guitar.  The evening will round out with a classical guitar favorite, Giuliani’s Rossiniana, and an arrangement of a Beatles classic, which everyone should enjoy.

Randy Reed, in his eleventh year as guitar instructor at Duke University and seventh year at St Mary's School, has performed throughout the United States with additional recitals in Mexico and Canada. He is currently enjoying his eighth year as president of the Triangle Guitar Society, a local non-profit arts
organization he started 17 years ago. "His classical guitar speaks in remarkably fluid terms." (John W. Lambert)

Dennis Aberle has been studying and performing classical guitar music for more than 20 years and is a school psychologist for Wake Co. Schools by profession.  His teachers have included Thomas Catalano, William Zito, and Dennis Koster in New York, and Randy Reed, Gerald Klickstein and Ed Stephenson in North Carolina.  Dennis has also studied flamenco guitar accompaniment in New York with Dennis Koster and Roberto Castellon, and in Seville, Spain with Peter Huijing and the prominent gypsy guitarist, Ramon Amador.  Currently, he is the vice president and program director of the Triangle Guitar Society. 

The Triangle Guitar Society, TGS, is a not-for-profit arts organization inspired by the love for the musical arts and dedicated to nurturing an appreciation for the guitar. TGS has been serving area guitar enthusiasts since 1988. TGS regularly sponsors guitar recitals, concerts, workshops, and master classes. Since 1988 our concert series have brought a variety of artists to the Triangle, such as The LA Guitar Quartet, Andrew York, Charlie Byrd, Dennis Koster (flamenco), Alex DeGrassi, and Martha Masters. Contact Randy Reed, TGS president, at (919) 490-1920 for additional information.

Michael Hardy, Publicity Director
(919) 469-3789
mhardy1@earthlink.net

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