John McLaughlin to receive the 30th Frankfurt Music Prize

British guitarist John McLaughlin is to receive the Frankfurt Music Prize for 2012. McLaughlin, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, has been a dominant influence on the European and inter­national music scene with his guitar playing for over 50 years.

According to the jury of the Frankfurt Music Prize, John McLaughlin is a musician whose work, “has always been characterized by respect and openness with regard to many other directions, forms of expression and cultures, and not by genre borders and dogmatism”. For the jurors, John McLaughlin is a person who can be described as a world musician.

PRS Guitars would like to congratulate John for this achievement.

John McLaughlin performs at Monaco Jazz Festival

photo by Andrea Palmucci

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