GIG ALERT: Christie Lenée Lights Up The Cutting Room in NYC Tonight
New Yorkers with a love for guitar pyrotechnics should make their way to Midtown’s The Cutting Room tonight to catch champion guitarist (literally!) Christie Lenée. Lenée’s recent album Coming Alive is inspirational and empowering, an affirming embrace of the world, even with all its flaws. Even if you can’t make it to the show, catch Lenée’s remarkable playing here.
A Tampa native and North Carolina resident, Lenée took First Place at the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship in 2017, was voted Acoustic Guitarist of the Year by England’s Music Radar in 2019, and was named Named “One of the Best Acoustic Guitarists in the World Right Now” by Guitar World in 2020. Her new record, Coming Alive, with its iconic guitar hooks and powerhouse vocal performances, feel like a giant leap forward. And that jump was made with eyes wide open.
This time out, she decided to make everything bigger, brighter, and more electric. The first line of the first song, the title track (“I’ve got a feeling deep inside”), tells you everything you need to know: Lenée’s sixth album is a chronicle of joy and hope, of self-confidence and empowerment, of renewal and light.
Coming Alive was conceived in the heart of the pandemic. “Since I was in a quiet introversion in a log cabin in the mountains of Lake Lure,” explains Lenée, “ I found that the only place I could travel was inside the journey of music. That experience of quiet and a lack of much real human connection directed me deeper within to a place of self-growth and discovery.”
If you haven’t been to the Cutting Room before, it’s a palatial den improbably close to the Empire State building, a home for the best pickers in the world.
Lenée plays the Cutting Room tonight, Aug. 24th, 2023, at 7:00 PM, doors at 6 PM. You can buy a ticket here.
