Music City’s Resident Virtuoso David Andersen Reaches Milestone Achievement
Performing 3,000th Show at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum

Guitar virtuoso David Andersen, widely hailed as the “Ambassador of Music City,” will be playing his 3,000th show at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum on Wednesday, October 27th. Andersen will perform this career highlight at 12pm, which will be during his regular show at the Hall of Fame, where he has played daily for the past nine years.

Andersen has strummed out nearly 300,000 tunes during his years at the Hall of Fame and has entertained over 1 million

visitors from 82 nations around the globe. With such a diverse fan base and a surplus of songs in his arsenal, it’s not any wonder how this musical genius is reaching such a commemorative milestone in his already long, successful career.

In addition to this significant performance achievement, the guitarist has a new album, Countrypolitan, which features new compositions of the classics he plays everyday for the Hall of Fame’s visitors.

“People ask me to play their favorites every day,” said Andersen, “and when you’ve played a song thousands of times, you start to hear variations on the theme, and new melodies will come out.”

For Countrypolitan, Andersen teamed with his personal guitar hero and longtime friend, Harold Bradley, a Music City recording pioneer and recipient of the American Federation of Musicians’ Lifetime Achievement Award. Including Bradley, who played guitar on the album, Andersen salutes the work of other early guitar icons like Les Paul and Chet Atkins.

“It was an honor to recompose new music based on the themes of the masters,” said Andersen. “I spent a lot of time writing out the melodies on sheet music, shifting things around, moving the accents.”

His new album, which is currently available in the Country Music Hall of Fame’s gift shop as well as on Andersen’s website.

A child music prodigy reared in Long Beach, California, Andersen could play music before he could even talk. An accomplished songwriter and proficient on multiple instruments, Andersen was recently a guest on WAMB-FM, where his music is currently being played.

Each day, he gives every new friend he meets at the Country Music Hall of Fame his signature guitar pick and a challenge..."remember why they came to Nashville and to take time to enjoy the music they came here to find." Indeed, with a new album and a landmark accomplishment under his belt, Andersen not only remembers but lives and breathes the music of Nashville everyday.

For more information on David, his 3,000th performance or to purchase the latest album

visit: www.davidandersenmusic.com