The Extreme Guitar Duo performs during the South Florida Community College Kaleidoscope Series on Thursday, Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., in the SFCC University Center Auditorium.

The Extreme Guitar Duo consists of American Keith Knight and Canadian Don Alder. Their performance takes the audience a musical journey to the extreme edge of modern guitar fingerpicking. Fast-paced and upbeat, the EGD delivers a plethora of Americana, Canadian, and roots music like, blues, ragtime, Appalachian folk, modern fingerstyle guitar, pop, and calypso with an assortment of instruments on stage including flat top guitars, 12 string guitars, resonators, dobros, harp guitars, and mandolin. Enjoy a great evening of guitar playing, singing, and storytelling with these extreme guitar players.

Knight is a Native American fingerstyle guitarist, mandolinist, vocalist, recording and touring artist. His career spans over 20 years as a Los Angeles and Austin rock guitarist, bluegrass mandolinist, and acoustic fingerstyle guitar wizard. He has shared the stage with such notables as The Smothers Brothers, Melanie, Junior Brown, and others.
Alder is a modern-day acoustic guitar renaissance man. He’s won the International Fingerstyle Competition, Guitar Player Magazine’s Guitar Superstar Champion 2010, and recently, the 2011 Guitar Idol competition. He has toured across Asia, Europe, and North America.

The SFCC Kaleidoscope Series Season Sponsors are Sebring Pain Management and Rehabilitation Center Inc., Dr. and Mrs. Richard Campbell, Lake Placid Journal and Agri-Leader by Highlands Today. The performance sponsor is Wells Motor Company.

Ticket prices are $25 and $29 and may be purchased online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at http://performances.southflorida.edu. Tickets may also be purchased by calling the SFCC Box Office at 863-784-7178 or by visiting the SFCC Box Office Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., located in the front of the SFCC Theatre for the Performing Arts, 600 West College Drive, Avon Park.