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Internationally Acclaimed Guitarists Perform at Shenandoah Guitar Festival

Sharon Isbin • Colin Davin • Jocelyn Gould • Rafael Padrón • ArcoStrum

Multiple GRAMMY Award-winning classical guitarist Sharon Isbin will headline the second Shenandoah Guitar Festival, held from Friday, June 27, through Sunday, June 29 at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia.

Isbin will present a solo guitar program, as well as a set of duets with her former protégé, Shenandoah Conservatory’s Director of the Guitar Studio and Associate Professor of Guitar Colin Davin, M.M. The program features music from Spain and Latin America, Renaissance England, and selections from Howard Shore’s score for the 2006 film “The Departed.”

Additional guest artists include Juno Award-winning Canadian jazz guitarist Jocelyn Gould, Cuban-born classical guitarist and director of the guitar program at the University of Miami Rafael Padrón, and the genre-bending violin and guitar duo ArcoStrum.

To view an entire calendar of events, purchase tickets and learn more, visit Conservatory Performs online at www.conservatoryperforms.org, in person at the Shenandoah University Box Office located in the Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre lobby, or by phone at (540) 665-4569. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m.

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