Pierre Bensusan
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Win a Pierre Bensusan signature model Lowden guitar

6/29/2011

To celebrate the release and world tour of Pierre Bensusan's new album 'Vividly', and to commemorate Pierre's 35 year anniversary as an international recording artist, Pierre and Lowden Guitars are thrilled to offer this world-wide competition to win a top of the range Pierre Bensusan Signature Model Lowden Guitar worth over $8000. To enter the competition please go to Bensusan-Lowden.com Abou...

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Pierre DJ's on RTE LYRIC FM (Ireland)

6/29/2011

During the 2010 tour of Ireland Pierre was invited onto Aedin Gormley's show. You can listen back to the show here (Aedin Gormley)

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Interview with Guitar Messenger

6/29/2011

During the 2011 USA Vividly World tour Pierre gave an interview with Guitar Messenger. Click here to see the interview

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Maidenhead Concert Review, June 29, 2011

6/29/2011

Best World Music Guitar Player Live: Pierre Bensusan Reviewed by CLARE BROTHERWOOD There was a sense of excitement in the air even before Pierre Bensusan took to the stage at Norden Farm Centre For Arts. It emanated from the guitar aficionados in the audience, eager to witness the man who was voted Best World Music Guitar Player by Guitar Player magazine readers. They were not disappointed. ...

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Various USA Press Clippings

1/1/2011

"Bensusan is very much his own animal. It’s like listening to a butterfly, to dappled sunshine coming through quaking aspens. His music flits and darts around like fish in a pool. And his compositions manage to encompass both the calmness of the pool and the flashing of the fish. It’s an entrancing, almost hypnotic thing to watch and hear, as he seems eager to share his journey, his li...

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Interview Folk Bulletin (Italy)

10/19/2010

Giovanni:In your long career you sure have crossed the territoires of folk, could you tell us something about your way to see at folk and popular music ? Pierre Bensusan: The way people looked at folk music at the time I started my career and now is like day and night. In the seventies, we were still in the progressive movment coming directly from the 60s in the US, with the civil rights, Ke...

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GuitarCDs.net Intuite review (UK 2011)

1/1/2010

INTUITE AWARDS 2002 AFIM Award for Best Acoustic Instrumental Album (USA) Guitar Album of the Year fROOTS (UK) Album of the Week JOURNAL DE MONTREAL (Canada) Best Albums GUITARIST MAGAZINE (UK) Ein wahres Juwel OWL AM SONNTAG (Germany Bravo!!! TRAD MAG (France) Intuite stands as the finest, most artistic and passionate example of anything composed and recorded on the instrument. ...

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Various Press on the Net

10/19/2009

Review of the Complete Works, Collector's Edition box set, in the webzine "Work and Worry" (October 2009) "Pierre Bensusan... stuns Audience with Breathtaking Brilliance" Read review of Pierre's first Australian concert in Gold Coast (April 2009) Interview on Innverviews Interview in November 2007 into the online edition of Guitar Player Magazine by Barry Cleveland ...

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