STRUM musical pays homage to mighty guitar
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Where would western civilization be without the guitar?
If we didn’t have guitars, there would be none of the popular music we love.
No blues, no folk, and no rock ’n’ roll.
And if there was no rock ’n’ roll, society wouldn’t have advanced much from the ’50s.
We’ve come a long way, baby, and we owe a lot of it to the guitar, the musical instrument that started life 1,000 years ago somewhere in India.
It’s hard to underestimate the significance of the ubiquitous guitar.
That’s the story behind STRUM: The History of the Guitar, a musical written and played by Gatineau’s Patrice Servant at La Nouvelle Scene, 333 King Edward Ave., through Saturday.
“The guitar was at the centre of the social revolution of the 1960s,” said La Nouvelle Scene’s general manager Richard Lebel. “It broke down social, political, racial barriers through song. Wherever society went, the guitar went, too. It is our history.”
The two-hour musical requires 15 musicians playing more than 55 stringed instruments — such as the Mesopotamian oud, the four-string Chinese pipa, the medieval lute, Spanish flamenco and the Irish mandolin — playing a wide range of music for including Bach, blues, jazz and rock.
Showtime for STRUM is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available at La Nouvelle Scene box-office. Call 613-241-2727 or visit their website nouvellescene.com.
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