“The Show Must Go On”: A Tribute Concert for Larry Swist – 8/6, Buffalo, NY
One of audio’s greats will soon be at the center of a sound celebration.
Larry Swist will be in the room on August 6th.
On Wednesday, August 6th, an all-star lineup of musicians and engineers will gather in Buffalo to play “The Show Must Go On”, a tribute memorial concert for Larry Swist. A globally recognized studio designer and monitor designer, Swist’s 40 years of music and sound achievement – which enhanced the lives of those in his Western New York roots and far beyond – will be highlighted.
The concert will take place at the renowned Tralf Music Hall, and include ten members of the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (of which Swist is also an inductee). Members of Larry’s immediate musical family will also perform – wife Jessie Galante, son Christopher Swist, daughter-in-law Marcia Lehninger, Rossano Galante, and Joey Galante Jr.
The evening will be recorded by by Larry Swist’s mentor and friend Mick Guzauski (Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton) the multiplatinum and multi-GRAMMY winning sound engineer who originally hails from Rochester, New York.
Swist’s career in music and sound spanned forty years, beginning as a local musician and reaching a pinnacle as a designer and builder of world class recording studios and studio monitors. As a recording engineer and concert sound engineer, Larry showed an unwavering commitment to quality sound and acoustics . The result was gold and platinum albums and memorable concert tours for local and national musicians, including Chuck Mangione and Spyro Gyra. Larry entered the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
Just as importantly, Larry Swist was a positive force in the Universe, as SonicScoop observed in this remembrance.
The Tribute Concert – “The Show Must Go On” – will feature twenty-three musicians including friends and colleagues with whom Larry worked and shared a love of music. Participants include:
— Grant Geissman, jazz guitarist, worked with Chuck Mangione
— Tom Schuman, keyboards, member of Spyro Gyra
— Gap Mangione, keyboards and big band leader
— Andy Weinzler, saxophone with Gap
— Steve Curry, drums with Gap
— Peter Chwazik, bass with Gap
— Phil Dillon, vocals and emcee, Nashville songwriter, Flash
— James Ralston, guitar, worked with Tina Turner, Flash
— Richie Pidanick, drums, member of local band Flash
— Phil Hudson, of The Road
— Jerry Hudson, of the Road
— Jerry Livingston, bassist with Rick James
— Carol Jean Swist, pianist with Big Wheelie and the Hubcaps
— The Gayles
— Mike Caputy
— Aaron Trubic
August 6th at the Tralf, doors open at 7:00 p.m. and show at 8:00 p.m. Proceeds to benefit the American Diabetes Association (Larry Swist was a type 1 diabetic). There will also be a gallery display of Larry Swist’s paintings and pictures of his recording studio designs.
Larry Swist’s recording studios span the globe from Dubai to Santa Monica and Cologne toTimes Square. Locally, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester benefits from one of Larry’sdesigns. The superior live acoustics of the venue for this concert – the Tralf – reflect LarrySwist’s design and sound expertise. For more information on Larry Swist’s worldwide recordingstudios and career:
Also of note is that this year’s multiple-Grammy winning Daft Punk album Random Access Memories was mixed on the Guzauski-Swist GS3a, a studio monitor speaker which Larry Swist designed in partnership with Mick Guzauski, generating new patents in the quest for excellent sound.
“The Show Must Go On” will be an unforgettable evening of music for all in attendance, paying tribute to a great man who dedicated his life to art and audio.
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