Guitar virtuoso Randy Armstrong performing tonight in Rotary Park

LACONIA — Guitar virtuoso Randy Armstrong will perform Wednesday, June 25, at 6:30 p.m. in Rotary Park in downtown Laconia.

The program is sponsored by the Belknap Mill Society.

Armstrong is the co-founder of Doah World Music Ensemble and Unu Mondo. He had performed before audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Alaska, and India. Armstrong recently returned from Central America and West Africa performing and studying with Garifuna musicians and drummers in Dangriga and Hopkins, Belize and Ewe, Fanti and Ga drummers in Accra and Legon, Ghana. He has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall and festivals at Lincoln Center in New York City.

In 1998, Armstrong was selected as an artist representative to attend a Cultural Trade Mission to Ireland, Northern Ireland and England sponsored by then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and in May 2005 attended a Curatorial Research trip on Son Jarocho music in Xalapa and Veracruz, Mexico for the New England Foundation for the Arts. He was appointed by Gov. Craig Benson as an arts councilor for the NH State Council on the Arts in 2003 and reappointed by Gov. John Lynch in 2008.

In the summer of 2007, Armstrong toured internationally in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and South Africa. He created original scores for the 2009 New Hampshire Theatre Project production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" funded by a grant from Meet the Composer, Inc. and the 2010 Phillips Exeter Academy production of "Macbeth."

Armstrong holds a degree in composition and world music studies and has conducted workshops at schools, universities and cultural institutions throughout the United States. He is an adjunct faculty instructor of West African drumming and North Indian sitar and tabla at Phillips Exeter Academy, and teaches for the Graduate Studies Integrated Arts Program at Plymouth State University.