Grammy winner to perform Tuesday at ASU-Beebe

BEEBE — Arkansas State University-Beebe will welcome two-time-Grammy-winning guitarist Laurence Juber to the stage for a free lecture at 12:30 p.m. and a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday as part of the ASU-Beebe 2019-2020 Lecture/ Concert Series.

Juber is a solo performer, recording artist, composer and arranger. His performance fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop and classical styles. In addition, Juber’s lecture, History of the Fingerstyle Guitar, focuses on the dominant technique for fretted instruments since the mid-15th century. The technique offers a loping melody with a simultaneous descending bass line.

A music graduate of London’s Goldsmith’s College, Juber was a featured guitar soloist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before becoming established as a studio musician in the mid1970s. First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCartney’s Wings, with whom Juber won a Grammy, he has since established himself as a world-renowned guitar virtuoso and entertainer.

Juber, known to his fans as LJ, has released 27 solo albums. The latest release, titled Downtown, is a collection of standards recorded in one five-hour session at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios. Juber has four guitar folios in print. The latest, The Evolution of Fingerstyle Guitar, was published by Hal Leonard in January 2019. LJ Plays The Beatles was voted one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s all-time Top Ten albums. His solo arrangement of “The Pink Panther Theme” earned him a second Grammy, while his arrangement of “Stand By Me” was heard nationally in a Diamonds Are Forever commercial. Juber’s DVD-Audio project Guitar Noir (AIX Records) won a CES Demmy award for best audio. His photo memoir, Guitar With

Wings, was recently published by Dalton Watson Fine Books.

Seating for the ASU-Beebe show is general admission and on a first-come basis. Ticket prices are $10 for general admission, and $5 for military, seniors, and students under 18 years of age. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Tickets to the concert are available at asub.ticketleap.

com, by visiting the Institutional

Advancement office in the Ruth Couch Building on the Beebe campus, or at the door one hour before showtime.

ASU-Beebe’s Owen Center Theater Auditorium is at 1102 W. College St. For more information, contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at (501) 882-8855.