2016 Naga Guitars - Masaaki Kishibe live In Wuhan
Date: April 8 - 7 pm
Venue: Luojiashan Theater
Price: 80-360 yuan
Masaaki Kishibe is an acoustic guitarist from Japan. While Kishibe is widely known around Japan and other eastern countries, he was not particularly well known in the US until he performed at the 32nd Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS in 2003 taking 2nd place overall in Fingerstyle Guitar; then subsequently touring with guitarist another former Walnut Valley winner, Andy McKee, throughout Taiwan. As McKee continued to rise to fame in the US, and helped bring attention to fingerstyle playing with the uploading of his videos of Rylynn and Drifting to YouTube garnering millions of plays and overnight fandom.