GUY FORSYTH
(Austin TX)

 

 

Performance Date

 

Saturday, June 7

Evening Concert - Kennedy Outdoor Theater

Music - and by extension, the people who make and listen to it - is an art form endlessly divided into categories: from blues to jazz, rap to reggae and pop to rock to punk to metal, ad nauseam. The same goes for individual songs, divided not only by genre but further by "type": happy songs, sad songs, protest songs, patriotic songs, drinking songs, gospel songs, work songs, party songs and of course & love songs.

Some folks like their music divided this way; it helps them organize their record collection, know what artists to follow and which radio stations to listen to and even what to put on their mix tapes and CDs. But Guy Forsyth, an artist who's had a go at most - if not yet quite all - of the aforementioned genres, likes to simplify things. "When you break it down, there's really only three types of music," he rations on a sunny afternoon in his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas. "There's the stuff you like, the stuff you don't like and the stuff you haven't heard."

 

For more information on Guy, visit www.guyforsyth.com.