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• In June 2009 Gareth was invited by Jan Akkerman to join him on stage at the London International Music Show. The biggest highlight for Gareth was dueting with Jan on Hocus Pocus which went down a storm.
• Gareth’s arrangement of the MGMT track Time To Pretend is taking over the blog-o-sphere. It’s currently sitting at number 14 in the most “loved” chart on the Hype Machine and number 30 in the most listened to category.
• Gareth was personally invited to the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville by Tommy Emmanuel.

PRESS

• "Gareth is one of the world’s most developed new guitar players that has fully blossomed.” Acoustic News
• “My friend Gareth Pearson is a huge talent and in his genre, one of the best
  young players around. I mean there’s many roads that lead to Rome, but this
  one is definitely a great one. I can see a great future for him” Jan Akkerman
• “When the Welsh Tornado hits your town, get ready for total devastation!” Tommy Emmanuel

BIOGRAPHY

GARETH PEARSON
Gareth is an acoustic guitarist and composer from Cwmbran, South Wales UK. He has performed at festivals and concerts worldwide and was personally invited to the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville by Tommy Emmanuel and by Southside Johnny to perform at their annual New Years Eve concert in New Jersey at the tender age of 17.

Gareth has a formidable string of concerts and guitar festivals behind him including The Montreal Jazz Festival and regularly conducts guitar workshops when appearing at festivals.

Along with Tommy Emmanuel and Jan Akkerman, Gareth has toured and performed with Andy McKee, John Renbourn, Ray Davies of the Kinks, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and other well known guitarists and musicians.

Gareth’s influences are wide, but his own distinctive voice is clearly audible in his own compositions. In performance, his “Exuberance of Youth” as one fellow musician put it, is clearly evident.