Harry Manx

Harry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music. His official website describes his music blend Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues, add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and youll get Manxs unique mysticssippi flavour. Manx plays the slide guitar, harmonica, sixstring banjo, mohan veena and Ellis stomp box. He studied for five years in India with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Bhatt is the inventor of the 20stringed Mohan Veena, which has become Harrys signature instrument He has released twelve albums in twelve years, and has his own record label Dog My Cats Records. He has received much recognition and many awards, including seven Maple Blues Awards, six Juno nominations, the Canadian Folk Music Award in 2005 for Best Solo Artist, and CBC Radios Great Canadian Blues Award in 2007.

Manx was born in 1955 in Douglas on the Isle of Man, and moved with his family to Ontario, Canada when he was six years old. He started working with bands as a roadie at ageand gradually worked his way up to becoming the regular sound man at the wellknown El Mocambo club in Toronto. He left Toronto when he wasto return to Europe and started making money as a busker. It was the late 1970s by then, and he found work at festivals as a blues lapslide guitarist and songwriter. He then moved to Japan where he lived and performed foryears.

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