Mike Dawes

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Mike Dawes is an English guitarist known for composing, arranging, and performing multiple parts simultaneously on a single guitar. He is one of the world’s most creative modern fingerstyle guitarists, with a repertoire featuring original viral videos and popular arrangements. He has also seen mainstream chart success performing with Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues.

Dawes was named Best Acoustic Guitarist in the World in 2017 and 2018 by reader polls in Total Guitar and MusicRadar. His debut release, a solo guitar arrangement of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” quickly became a viral hit with tens of millions of views on YouTube, a success duplicated and expanded upon numerous times since.
Dawes has shared the stage with acts as diverse as Tommy Emmanuel, Christopher Cross, Periphery, the Aristocrats, and the Athens State Orchestra. His third studio album, Galactic Acid, was released in 2024.

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