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Concerts: Steve Hackett To Perform Live In Montreal This July

Posted on Monday, February 15 @ 23:30:00 UTC by nightowl

FMPM and Get It Promotions are pleased to present a rare concert performance by Steve Hackett and his electric band, Friday July 9 2010 at Th??tre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts. Steve Hackett is renowned as an immensely talented and innovative rock musician. He was lead guitarist with Genesis as part of their classic line up with Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. Between 1970 and 1977, Hackett played on 6 studio albums: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, A Trick Of The Tail and Wind & Wuthering, as well as 2 live albums: Genesis Live and Seconds Out. His guitar playing produced some of the most memorable moments of that fabled line-up including dramatic electric guitar solos, as in "Firth Oof Fifth," as well as sensitive acoustic passages, as in "Blood On The Rooftops."



Following Genesis, Hackett began an impressive solo career releasing several highly-rated progressive rock albums including Voyage Of The Acolyte and Spectral Mornings. He also formed super-group GTR with Steve Howe (Yes), and played with many renowned musicians such as Brian May (Queen), John Wetton (UK), and Ian Mosley and Pete Trewavas (Marillion). Hackett also produced several award-winning classically-oriented albums featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra including A Midsummer?s Night Dream and Genesis Revisited.

Hackett?s live electric concerts take fans on an extraordinary journey that covers many periods of his career from Genesis and his early progressive solo work through to the present, woven together by his distinctive and melodic guitar playing. 2010 will cap Hackett?s fourth decade as a professional musician and will also mark the year in which he and Genesis are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

TICKETS: Reserved seating tickets for Steve Hackett are now on sale at the Place des Arts box office (514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112), as well as online at www.pda.qc.ca and www.progquebec.com. Tickets are $60 + taxes and fees and center seats in the first 15 rows are guaranteed if you get your tickets through the ProgQuebec website! [provided they're still available - ed.]

[Source: FMPM website]

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