The first thing people say when they hear guitarist Bruce Huss’s music is: “Boy, can that guy play guitar.” His two CDs are filled to the brim with meaty instrumentals and clever, feel-good and heart tugging songs, wrapped in his fresh Kansas perspective.
Huss will be performing at noon Tuesday at the Brown Bag Program at the Coutts Museum of Art.
His song, “Acoustical Romance,” won a songwriting award at the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield, and “My Father’s Son,” was a winner at PrairieFest Music Festival. He’s also been a featured artist on the FolkAlley Alleycast, a podcast showcasing performers around the world. He also was “artist of the month” in March 2008 on K&K Sound’s Web site.
His live shows are hard to categorize. He comfortably slides from folk to pop-rock, from blues to new-age, and from a classical sounding piece, to “almost country” and back again.
The name, Bruce Huss, will sound familiar to the locals. That’s because he worked 13 years as an award winning news reporter/photographer at Wichita’s KSNW TV, where he crafted over a thousand feature stories in a special segment called Huss & Company.
“I think writing a good news story is much like writing a good song, except the news had to be factual, and I can lie as much as I want in a song,” said Bruce.
You’ll hear a good number of guitar instrumentals in his shows and while many are original, he’ll also throw in pieces by Tommy Emmanuel, Pat Kirtley, Stephen Bennett, Chet Atkins and Martin Taylor…sacred names in the acoustic guitar world.
This program is sponsored by the Coutts Museum of Art and the El Dorado Main Street Promotions Committee. The program is free and open to the public. The Coutts is located at 110 N. Main. For more information, call 321-1212.
