Harry Manx is back at the Princess Original Cinema!
Harry Manx has been dubbed an “essential link” between the music of East and West, creating musical short stories that wed the tradition of the Blues with the depth of classical Indian ragas. His unique sound is bewitching and deliciously addictive to listen to.
Canadian blues musician Harry Manx exploits his signature East-meets-West style to great effect at every turn, mastering the Mohan Veena (a 20-string sitar-guitar hybrid) as easily as he does the lap steel guitar, the harmonica, the stomp box and the banjo. His secret lies at the intersection of blues, folk, country and Indian classical music, a compelling combination that hypnotizes audiences with its quiet, uplifting warmth.
“A modern day troubadour, Canadian-born Manx sings with an intimate, quiet warmth that makes his shows mesmerizing. The subtle interplay between the haunting notes of the sitar and the gentle, rhythmic groove of the blues gives his songs a beautiful sensuality that defies comparison.”
- Eugene Weekly"[...]Harry Manx is an artist that critics have occasionally had a hard time getting their minds around. His unique amalgam of blues and other American roots music, classical Indian forms, and bits of rock, pop, and folk makes him difficult to pigeonhole, and self-appointed gatekeepers of those traditions sometimes bemoan his lack of purity, stubbornly missing the point. But Manx’s trip is really quite easy to grasp: He’s an accomplished and adventurous lap-slide guitarist – whether playing a National resonator, a solidbody lap-steel, a modified banjo or cigar-box guitar, or his signature 20-string Mohan Veena – and a compelling singer with a rich, warm, and soulful voice who writes intelligent and compassionate songs and puts them over with heartfelt conviction.”
- Barry Cleveland, Guitar Player
