Acoustic guitar virtuoso Henry Ferland will perform a night of fingerstyle guitar on March 14th at The Rosendale Theater.
The solo performance will showcase impressive fingerstyle skills which combine melodies, bass lines, unique chordal arrangements, and percussion — all at the same time — to create rich and layered guitar music. The show will include songs stylistically ranging from traditional fingerpicking (Chet Atkins, Doc Watson) to contemporary (Tommy Emmanuel, The Beatles, Paul Simon), and elements of jazz in addition to his original compositions.
Ferland grew up in the Hudson Valley. At 16, he won the International Home of the Legends Thumb Picking competition at the Merle Travis Center in Muhlenberg, KY. He was one of the “Young Thumbs” at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville, TN presented by Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles. Ferland is a recent graduate of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, MA with a performance degree.
“He’s an extraordinary guitarist,” Rob Leitner, Managing Director of the Rosendale Theater said when speaking about Ferland’s performance at the Rosendale Street Festival in 2024. “He blew the crowds away. We had to get him on the big stage.”