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“A very bright star is emerging in the guitar world and that star is Mark Lettieri… Mark’s contributions to music are with groundbreaking, genre-bending innovative groups that are finding large audiences…” – Cover of Jazz Guitar TodayTexas-based five-time GRAMMY-winning guitarist, composer, producer, and instructor Mark Lettieri is one of modern groove music’s defining voices. Best known as a longtime member of the genre-blurring collective Snarky Puppy, as well as a founding member of The Fearless Flyers alongside Cory Wong, Lettieri has built an international reputation as a session musician proficient in a multitude of styles. He has recorded and performed in virtually every genre of popular music with both independent and major-label artists, ranging from Erykah Badu to David Crosby. With the Mark Lettieri Group, he channels instrumental funk, jazz fusion, and R&B into tightly arranged, groove-forward compositions reminiscent of The Meters, John Scofield, and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters era. The group’s latest album, Can I Tell You Something? (2023), released on GroundUP Music, continues a solo catalog alongside dozens of collaborative recordings. Although he has toured Canada extensively, this marks his long-anticipated TD Victoria International JazzFest debut as a bandleader. Guitarists, groove enthusiasts, and fusion fans alike should secure tickets early. This will be one of the festival’s most rhythmically explosive nights.
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751 View St, Victoria, BC, Canada, British Columbia V8W 1J9
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