Home grown guitar hero

After returning from a world tour with stops in the UK, Canada and USA, renowned guitar legend and former Crawford College North Coast pupil Guy Buttery has announced the release of his first live album.
For over a decade, the South African Music Award winning musician has sealed the deal with fans around the globe with his idiosyncratic and powerful live shows. This year the artist, described as a “one man guitar orchestra”, presents a live performance on CD and begins to promote the album, ‘Live in KwaZulu’, which is a gathering of masterworks recorded before a live audience.
With sell-out performances in the US, the UK, Australia, France, Italy and all over Southern Africa, Buttery is Africa’s biggest acoustic music export. In 2012, he was invited to perform with the 52 piece KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, dubbed “Africa’s greatest orchestra” and was also voted “Top Live Show” in 2012 by The Cape Times. In July 2013, Buttery was invited to join world renowned guitar greats Preston Reed and Jon Gomm for a series of concerts with the touring International Guitar Night. Buttery has also toured, recorded and supported artists such as Dave Matthews, Vusi Mahlasela, Kelly Joe Phelps, Xavier Rudd and 70’s folk icon Shawn Phillips.
Recorded over two nights, the brand new album showcases Guy Buttery’s further explorations in instrumentation and innovative soundscapes. His music partner, Nibs van der Spuy, performs on two of the 11 tracks.
“In many ways, I’ve been afraid. In a live environment there’s no way to get it ‘just right’.” said Buttery.
“When you make music in front of an audience, there’s an energy, certain dynamics, a feel, a collective experience. This isn’t the studio. It’s real.”
The album is available on a limited edition CD digipack and on digital download at https://guybuttery.bandcamp.com and on iTunes.