Guitar specialist to perform in Lockhart
Special to the LPR
Guitarist extraordinaire, Edgar Cruz, and his brother Mark Cruz will perform at Lockhart’s newest listening room, The Blue Pearl at 112 N. Main Street, Tuesday, Feb. 25, from 7-9 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door.
The brothers are both well known for their guitar playing. Mark, a professor of guitar at Texas State University and a classical guitarist, has played at The PEARL for 9 years. Edgar performs more than 300 times a year and has played throughout America, Europe and South America. He has been a headliner at the prestigious Chet Atkins Guitar Festival every July in Nashville since 1995 and has been a strong icon at major art & music festivals in Oklahoma since the late 70’s.
Those who have witnessed Cruz’s performance immediately become entranced at the precision, speed and complexity with which his fingers strike the strings of his guitar to create a symphony of sound unusual to just one instrument.
Cruz has the largest repertoire in Oklahoma including but not limited to “Malagueña,” “Classical Gas,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Hotel California,” Classical, 60’s & 70’s, Original and Latin/Spanish favorites and the largest Beatles selection available. He is very active with his audiences or equally happy performing background music. Nineteen CDs covering a multitude of genres and two award winning DVDs are currently available.
Edgar has been named Oklahoma’s Top Performing Artist and/or Acoustic Guitarist for more than 10 years by the Oklahoma Gazette. He has received numerous civic acknowledgments for his contributions to various charitable events. He also performs a wide variety of bookings including concerts, festivals, weddings, receptions, banquets, schools, churches, conventions, fiestas, memorials or any special occasion. Edgar holds a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance from Oklahoma City University and was also honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award there in 2010.
His You Tube video of “Bohemian Rhapsody” has over 20 million hits worldwide.
