Appearing for the first time at Germano’s, guitarist/composer Michael DeLalla has spent over 30 years serving up a delicious brew of his solo guitar compositions and arrangements drawn on musical traditions gathered worldwide, steeped with his classical training and seasoned with his jazz, and folk influences. His work celebrates his multi-cultural musical habitats in a variety of settings, from a capella kan e diskan in Breton Gaelic, to evocations of Japanese koto music and the North African o’ud, to tweaking the nose of the classical music world with his raucous "Piece for Steel Drum (If I Played Steel Drum)" to his double homage for Benjamin Britten and Thelonious Monk (“Nocturnal Scenes ‘Round About Midnight”).

A veteran touring artist, Michael has graced notable venues coast to coast, including The Fret House in California, North Carolina’s Piedmont Guitar Series, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The Barns of Wolf Trap. His fluency on classical, 12-string, and steel-string acoustic guitar showcases gifted improvisation and dazzling technical facility that never sacrifices the richness and poignancy of his compositions.

“One of the very best acoustic guitarists in the world....music of the most exquisite order.”

Matt Fink, All Music Guide

“… a sublime and uniquely crafted sonic landscape…DeLalla creates a sonic vibrancy on this CD that is rich, remarkable and revelatory.”

Minor 7th.com, about his recording This Is How I Disappear