Nigel Date
Duo · Based in Beechworth · Travels Australia-wide
About this act
Nigel Date has been a working guitarist his entire adult life. Jazz mostly, along with South American and European guitar music, gypsy style playing in the Django Reinhardt tradition, instrumental takes on well known pop songs, and his own compositions. The gig list is long and genuinely varied: festivals overseas, corporate functions for visiting dignitaries, weddings, bar mitzvahs, a live band for circus, clubs, pubs, cafes, cruise ships, and studio work for albums, television and radio. The great American songbook sits at the heart of it, the songs Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald recorded. Based in Beechworth, he needs a power point and a chair, and he can assemble a larger ensemble when you want one.