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TCAN Annual Benefit 2021 featuring TOMMY EMMANUEL
This year, as we celebrated our 24th year as a community-based arts organization, TCAN Annual Benefit 2021 featured one of the great guitarists of our generation: Tommy Emmanuel.
Tommy Emmanuel’s performance was recorded live on TCAN’s stage Saturday November 20, 2021 in front of a limited capacity audience (120 seats) and will be aired on YouTube Saturday, December 11, 2021 at TCAN Virtual Benefit 2021.
Sponsors who help underwrite the expenses of TCAN Virtual Benefit 2021 will receive prominent recognition in the video production.
EVENT AND SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION
2021 Business and Individual Sponsors
Signature Sponsor | Atlantic Vision, Inc. |
Signature Sponsor | Elaine Burns and Jack Memishian |
Presenting Sponsor | |
Gold Sponsor | Jane and Bill Bachman |
Barbara and D. Michael Collins | |
The William M. Collins Company | |
Henry and Dr. Kathleen Faulkner | |
LaborSoft | |
Middlesex Savings Bank | |
Silver Sponsor | Anonymous |
The Allain + Warren Group | |
Rick and Nancy Jennett | |
Stephen and Maschia Kaplan | |
Karen and Reginald Leese | |
Stonegate Group, LLC | |
Antonio Viva and Maria Freda | |
Bronze Sponsor | Kelley and Tom Halchuk |
Elizabeth Larsen and Michael Kim | |
Matthew McCue and Paula Passi McCue | |
MetroWest Subaru | |
Judy Ravindra | |
Walnut Hill School for the Arts | |
Cast Member | Dr. Orn Almarsson and Brynja Einarsdóttir |
Barbara and Doug Ambos | |
Ann Drouilhet | |
Terri and Bruce Evans | |
Renee and Steven Finn | |
Aline Frantzen and Anders Siggins | |
Brita and Gary Gill-Austern | |
Shetal and Richard Kaye | |
Paula and Scott Koehler | |
Dr. Lucette Nadle and Dr. Barry Kran | |
David Lavalley and Sherry Sandoval | |
Christine Miele | |
Martha and Nick Perakis | |
Hilary McGregor and Peter Townsend | |
Barbara Anne Sousa | |
Noni and Bob Stearns | |
Stephanie Meilman and Gary Wetreich | |
Steve and Denise Wilson | |
Patron | Lucia Frenkel and Lawrence Dick |
Mary Ellen and Stephen Fulton | |
Ellen and Kalman Heller | |
Jan Phlegar and Robert Vierling | |
William Thomas Emmanuel is an Australian guitarist known for his complex fingerstyle technique, his joyous, exuberant performances, and the use of percussive effects on the guitar.
His recorded work includes over 35 solo albums, and literally thousands of guest appearances with artists as varied as Michael Jackson, Chet Atkins, Diana Ross, Bill Wyman, Marty Stuart, and Air Supply. Emmanuel’s awards include Australia’s Best Guitarist in Juke Magazine for 1986, 1987, and 1988. He received the 1988 Studio Musician of the Year award in Bi-Centennial Music Week. The recipient of numerous Rolling Stone awards such as Most Popular Guitarist in1989 and 1990, and Best Guitarist from 1991 through 1994, he also received Australian Adult Contemporary Record of the Year in 1991 and 1993. He was named Australian Performer of the Year by the MO Awards in 1995 and 1997 and also received a gold record for the sales of Classical Gas. Tommy Emmanuel received two Grammy Award nominations for Best Instrumental Performance, in 1998 and 2006.