Tuesday 4th March 8pm The Back Room Wellington Arts Centre 61 Abel Smith Street
“Unlike most guitar slingers, Ruth knows how to avoid a steady flow of meaningless riffs,” Chip Lamey of Roots and Americana Magazine wrote. “Possessing a powerful voice and the ability to mix jazz runs with primal Delta slide guitar has always been her forté.” |  |
Ruth has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and New Zealand performing her brand of Americana fingerstyle picking on any one of the guitars in her extensive collection, some of which were built exclusively for her. She especially enjoys her 1932 Dobro, her 1947 Gibson LG2, the National Steel, and her Morning Star crafted by the world-renowned Richard Mermer. Ruth Wyand was the first woman ever to win the Gamble Rodgers Music Festival’s Fingerstyle Guitar Competition in St. Augustine, Florida last year. Ruth will be with us as part of her third New Zealandtour. “She’s such a great guitarist in a world where accomplished women guitarists are still few and far between. Her interesting use of open tunings, claw hammer, Piedmontand Travis picking, along with harmonics and drumbeats on the guitar, kept the audience totally absorbed and enchanted,” the Devonport Folk Club wrote from Auckland, New Zealand. From a Scott Joplin rag on acoustic guitar to a smoking Dwayne Allman lead on electric, Ruth embraces history. Her style of guitar playing and songwriting is heavily influenced by swing, ragtime, country, folk, and blues genres. |