Tony McManus and Julia Toaspern

“Tony’s music is beyond beautiful, it’s perfect” – Tommy Emmanuel.

“Julia’s bell-like voice and her fiddle playing are thrilling. She moves effortlessly from fiddle to guitar, her solo is impressive.” – Salon Festival, France.

Tony McManus has been listed as one of 50 transcendental guitarists of all time by Guitar Player Magazine.

Julia Toaspern, from Berlin, combines classical violin and voice training with an interest in jazz, baroque and traditional music. Her skills as a guitarist are prodigious and make a very exciting fit with Tony’s work.

The duo’s guitar treatments of traditional music is unique, exploring the harmonic possibilities of these old, and sometimes not so old, tunes. Flat-picking or finger-picking at the highest level they are always very evidently at the service of the music while Julia's violin effortlessly morphs into a fiddle as she weaves from Italian madrigal to Scottish reel.

Tony McManus and Julia Toaspern is part of the Traverse's £1 Ticket Project.
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