Article Contributed by Mike
Published on 2026-04-14
Photo: Mike Moran
There are guitarists, and then there are players who seem to bend the instrument into something entirely their own. When Tommy Emmanuel returns to Boulder, audiences can expect one of the most dynamic and immersive acoustic performances on the planet—equal parts precision, passion, and pure joy.
AN EVENING WITH TOMMY EMMANUEL, CGP
LIVING IN THE LIGHT TOUR
BOULDER THEATER
Friday, June 19, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm | Show: 8:00 pm
Tickets on sale Friday, April 17 at 10 am HERE https://www.z2ent.com/events/detail/tommy-emmanuel-bt-2026
Reserved Seated Tickets
All Ages (under 16 with an adult)
Hailed as “one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world” by NPR’s World Cafe, Tommy Emmanuel got his start at the age of six, when he first began touring his native Australia with his family’s band. As a teenager, he earned a reputation as a highly sought after sideman and session player, and by his early twenties, Emmanuel was playing on chart-topping hits and performing with acts like Air Supply and Men at Work.
Inspired in part by his hero, Chet Atkins (who would later become a friend, mentor, and collaborator), Emmanuel stepped out on his own as a solo artist in 1979, releasing the first in a string of acclaimed instrumental albums that would make him an unlikely celebrity in his home country and beyond.
In the decades that followed, he would go on to headline everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to Carnegie Hall; tour with luminaries like Eric Clapton and John Denver; win a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement; perform for a televised audience of more than two billion at the Sydney Olympics; and collaborate with a who’s who of fellow guitar greats, including Les Paul, Mark Knopfler, Joe Walsh, Richard Thompson, Jason Isbell, and Billy Strings.
Recorded in just four days, Emmanuel’s latest album, Living In The Light, stands as the most daring—and most rewarding—collection in the globetrotting fingerpicker’s remarkable catalog, fusing his pop, jazz, classical, and roots influences into a virtuoso masterwork as exhilarating as it is intimate.
