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bert lams

About Me

I studied classical guitar in Brussels, Belgium with Monique Vigneron and Albert Sundermann at the Royal Conservatory. In 1986 I attended a Guitar Craft course with Robert Fripp in the USA, and toured with RF and the League of Crafty Guitarists in Europe and USA. That's where I met Paul Richards and Hideyo Moriya. We formed the California Guitar Trio in 1991. We've released numerous CD's, toured and played with great musicians like Tony Levin, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, David Sylvian, Jerry Marotta, Pat Mastelotto, Robert Fripp, Jarrod Kaplan. My first solo CD Nascent with music by Bach was released last October.




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Member Since: 7/13/2006
Band Website: WWW.BERTLAMS.COM
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Sounds Like: My latest CD is a solo release: NASCENT - Bach preludes for steel string guitar. You can order it HERE
Record Label: Inner Knot, Inside Out
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Belgian from Pennsylvania playing German music in Kentucky in a room full of Poles

Mc Donalds, Lexington, Kentucky. On Saturday we played an outdoor concert just outside Lexington. The backdrop was amazing: the Kentucky river going through a canyon: the Palisades. When we arrived I ...
Posted by bert lams on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:59:00 PST

cheese stick and guitar appetizers

I-64 somewhere in Kentucky, on our way to Lexington. On Wednesday eve we played a living room concert in Pittsburgh at the home of Jim and Janet Ferla. Jim teaches guitar at two universities in Pittsb...
Posted by bert lams on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:46:00 PST

Ohio barn concert

Last night we played a concert at our friend's Brian and Michelle's house in Delaware, Ohio. They live in a beautiful old farm house with a barn in the back. It was a nice evening with clear skies. B...
Posted by bert lams on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:24:00 PST

Ice bags and roosters

I-76 west towards Pittsburg. On Saturday we played at the Psalm(Philadelphia Society of Art, Literature and Music). This is one of the very best listening rooms in the Philadelphia area; it is a small...
Posted by bert lams on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:18:00 PST

Hot gig in NJ

Crossing the Delaware bridge into New Jersey.Last night we played a living room concert in Branchburg, New Jersey. We had left early from DC, but it still took us six hours to get there in our non ai...
Posted by bert lams on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:31:00 PST

Hot touring

Tom Griesgraber and I are on a very busy and hot tour on the East Coast; we'll play fifteen concerts in fourteen days! We started out in Harrisburg, where we played a living room concert with special ...
Posted by bert lams on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:43:00 PST

Rehearsals in Austin, Texas

One of my favorite coffee places, and one of the cool hangouts in Austin: Jo's on Congress! I left Austin very early this morning on a flight back home via Chicago. After our last concert of this tour...
Posted by bert lams on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:03:00 PST

TEXAS!

We just got done playing our last show of this tour , here in Dallas TX, at the Granada Theater. We opened for Monte Montgomery, an amazing guitar player from Austin. He was announced in the local ent...
Posted by bert lams on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

OLE!

Somewhere in Oklahoma, on our way to Austin, TX.We're on a 7 hour drive from Oklahoma City to Austin, TX. On our way out of town this morning we stopped at our friend Mark's house for a delicious bre...
Posted by bert lams on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:47:00 PST

St Louis

Sullivan, Missouri: with host Janet and her 'apple babies' on our lunch stop at Cracker Barrell on a long drive day. Last night we played in the 'Duck Room" at Blueberry Hill in St Louis. Chuck Berr...
Posted by bert lams on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:40:00 PST