Spring 2016 issue
From busking in London’s Covent Garden to playing on the world’s stage, Antonio Forcione takes a multicultural approach to playing acoustic guitar
When Antonio Forcione first came to the UK, he busked in Covent Garden, winning a Time Out busking competition in the process. Since then, he has become a fixture at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as travelling the world, absorbing new musical cultures along the way. But he cites his recent concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with a full orchestra as the highlight of his career so far. When we caught up with him he was in the process of packing his bags for a month long visit to Cuba, hinting that an album was probably going to follow shortly afterwards. His current project is a duo recording with singer Sarah Jane Morris, but first we asked where his travels had taken him to recently? “........
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