Kaira (Peace)by Derek Gripper

A celebrated musical explorer known for founding genre-mashing ensembles, South African guitarist Derek Gripper has taken his well-traveled instrument into previously unimagined realms. In his Bay Area debut he’s playing his specially built eight-string acoustic guitar with changeable fretboards, focusing on his extraordinary transcriptions of music by West Africa’s greatest masters of the 21-string kora.

South Africa. Derek Gripper became an international name interpreting kora compositions (21 string harp) on solo guitar, a feat which classical guitar legend John Williams thought was “absolutely impossible until I heard Derek Gripper do it.”