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Harry Manx

Past Performances

January 19, 2006

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Sitar/guitarist Harry Manx, who studied with Rajasthani Indian musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, fuses Indian folk melodies with blues, gospel, and compelling grooves, performing on the Mohan Veena, lap steel, harmonica, and banjo.

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October 29, 2004

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Harry Manx, whose music has been called “a link between the music of East and West,” performs soulful blues on the lap slide guitar, the Mohan Veena, and the blues harp.

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About the Artist

Harry Manx is one of the most original folk-world-blues performers touring today. Born in the U.K. and now residing in Canada, Manx performs lap slide guitar, blues harp, the six-stringed banjo, and, most uniquely, the Mohan Veena, a guitar/sitar hybrid created and named by Indian musical guru Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Manx has lived and toured for years throughout Europe, Japan and India. In 1990, while in Japan, he discovered a recording of the Indian slide guitarist, V.M. Bhatt. It proved to be an epiphany that soon drew him to India to become a student of Bhatt, who later won a Grammy Award for his work with Ry Cooder in 1994. Manx remained with V.M. Bhatt for five years in a quest to master the sonic intricacies and beauty inherent in the Mohan Veena.

His music has been called an “essential link” between the music of East and West. His songs are short stories that draw from the essence of the blues and the depth of Indian polytonal ragas.