BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20230723T230000Z DTEND:20230724T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:An Evening with Chris Smither DESCRIPTION:Born in Miami\, during World War II\, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor\, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother's ukulele. "Uncle Howard\," Smither says\, "showed me that if you knew three chords\, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords\, you could pretty much rule the world." With that bit of knowledge under his belt\, he was hooked. "I'd loved acoustic music specifically the blues ever since I first heard Lightnin' Hopkins' Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn't believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style\, to a degree\, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard." X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Born in Miami\, during World War II\, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor\, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother&rsquo\;s ukulele. &ldquo\;Uncle Howard\,&rdquo\; Smither says\, &ldquo\;showed me that if you knew three chords\, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords\, you could pretty much rule the world.&rdquo\; With that bit of knowledge under his belt\, he was hooked. &ldquo\;I&rsquo\;d loved acoustic music &ndash\; specifically the blues &ndash\; ever since I first heard Lightnin&rsquo\; Hopkins&rsquo\; Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn&rsquo\;t believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style\, to a degree\, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard.&rdquo\; LOCATION:Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square Newburyport\, MA 01950 UID:e.1189.104706 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260522T201357Z URL:https://business.newburyportchamber.org/events/details/an-evening-with-chris-smither-104706 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR