Amphitheatre Summer Sessions – Call of the Blues
Join us for an evening of outdoor live music with views across the countryside to the north Cornish coast. Michael Messer’s Mitra will be on the amphitheatre stage on Thursday 8th August. Accompanied by the most delicious veggie barbecue you will ever try and drinks from the outdoor Rum Shack Bar.
Gig tickets are Adults £8, Children £4 and family (2 adults, 2 children) £22 in advance (more on the door).
Michael Messer’s Mitra is a unique musical trio of blues slide guitar, Hindustani slide guitar, vocals and tabla rhythms.
Mitra (pronounced ‘meetra’) is a trio comprising British Blues innovator and slide guitarist, Michael Messer, Hindustani slide guitar maestro from India, Manish Pingle, and London-based tabla master, Gurdain Singh Rayatt.
This is more than another meeting of musicians from different cultures, this is a band with a successful album and its own unique sound; an exhilarating and highly accessible fusion of Blues and Hindustani classical music. With vocals, slide guitars and tabla, these three musicians from opposite sides of the globe create a fascinating musical journey, running from the banks of the Mississippi, via London to Mumbai and the Ganges delta.
The album, Call Of The Blues, was released in 2016 and was immediately picked up by the blues and world music media, getting worldwide radio airplay and press coverage in more than 40 countries, and hitting #1 in the iTunes Blues chart. Since the release of Call Of The Blues, Michael Messer’s Mitra have done five successful UK tours, including shows at London’s Bush Hall, Musicport, Shambala, and many other festivals and venues.
Michael Messer’s Mitra – nominated in the ‘Best Group of 2017’ category in the ‘Songlines Music Awards’
