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Harp-guitarist Muriel Anderson says that as a small child she wanted to become an inventor. She later learned to love flamenco guitar playing and stringed instruments in general.

The harp-guitar combines both loves.

“There is a sense of freedom,” she says.

“There really is, in my art and in the way I travel and perform. I have friends all over the world, so there is that sense of freedom; but in my playing, I can play The Beatles followed by a Spanish flamenco or Sousa march or bluegrass.”

Recently she decided to add a visual element to her shows and started working with photo artist/cinematographer Bryan Allen. He created a backdrop that plays behind her while she performs, and in the process of creating the work, the two fell in love, she says.

“He is a brilliant pastel artist, among other things,” she says.

Anderson is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion. Her CD “Nightlight Daylight ” was chosen as one of the Top 10s of the Decade by Guitar Player Magazine and her “Heartstrings” recording accompan Discovery. nied the astronaut space shuttle

Guitar World Magazine named her as one of its most amazing female acoustic players. She has perwith formed or recorded Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Tommy Emmanuel and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.

Her current shoot was inspired by watching a recent eclipse. She says that it is a very st is timed to the vi Allen.

“I like the structured approach,” she says.

“It brings the audience on a tour around the world's very unified, and I like seeing a entire audience with big wide smi

BRYAN ALLEN PHOTO Muriel Anderson 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 (N) $25 in advance, $30