Patchouli & Terra Guitarra Perform The Landscape of Guitar: Animated Painting Concert Experience

Internationally touring duo, Patchouli & Terra Guitarra are bringing their one-of-a-kind production “The Landscape of Guitar” for a very special performance to the stage of the Pal Theatre on Tuesday, September 28, at 7:30 p.m. After 23 years of touring and 22 albums, Guitarist/ Artist Bruce Hecksel and poet/songtress Julie Patchouli created this original concept using Hecksel’s Terra Guitarra® acrylic paintings of “guitar landscapes,” where every element is a guitar shape, colorfully glittering like stained glass. The duo animated and composed the paintings to flow with the music performance seamlessly, producing a living vibrant backdrop. The duo’s instrumental guitar project, Terra Guitarra, is reviewed as “one of the top nuevoflamenco groups in the world” by Zone Music Reporter. The duo has four top 5 internationally charting albums, and in May 2018, Terra Guitarra’s Of Sea & Stars won the award for “Best Instrumental Album of the Year”. Patchouli, their singer/ songwriter project, is a Public Radio favorite featuring sparkling lead vocals, beautiful duets and award winning compositions.

The Chicago Tribune says “inspires the human spirit.”

Their world class musicianship is gorgeously amplified by the accompanying lush visual movement of the new Animated Painting Concert Experience, “The Landscape of Guitar.” In 2018, The Landscape of Guitar quite literally took flight around the world touring theaters in the US, Europe and China, which included art exhibitions on 3 continents of the original paintings used in the production. In 2019, they went on their 2nd tour to China and performed the show from coast to coast of the US.

Not only has this multitalented duo gone global, but they take the audience with them in their musical and artistic journey through The Landscape of Guitar. Audiences will travel from their seat in the theater to Barcelona, Stonehenge and other worlds where mermaids dive and faeries fly through the guitar constellations of the Milky Way. Soar over guitar canyons to fiery Spanish guitar pieces, like “Malaguena.” Walk guitar labyrinths in the guitar sunset through sweet vocal harmonies. Float on guitar clouds to the sound of Native American flutes and trek to the peaks of the guitar mountains with epic folk rock anthems.

Experience the Spirit of the '60's & '70's, the romance of the Spanish guitar, and the colors of Van Gogh. Several original acrylic paintings of guitarist Bruce Hecksel, used in the animation production of “The Landscape of Guitar” will be on Exhibition September 21, 2021Tuesday, September 28. See the paintings then see them come to life at the show.