The most imposrtant guitarist to come out of the acid folk heyday of the early 70’s will be perfoming today at Bumbershoot.

Bert Jansch, founding member and guitarist for the group Pentangle, will be playing at 7:00pm at the Northwest Court.

His jazz inflected, british blues playing changed generations of guitar players style influenceing artists like Neil Young, Johnny Marr (now in Modest Mouse, who has played on Jansch albums), Bernard Butler, Devendra Banhart, and Beth Orton to name just a few (who have all appeared on recent albums by Jansch).

Mike Oldfield loved the Jansch penned song “Angie” so much he and his sister, Sally named their first band, Sallyangie.

Donovan recorded two songs, Bert’s Blues and House Of Jansch (which apeared on Mellow Yellow).

Jansch’s version of teh classic, Blackwaterside, was used nearly in it’s original form, by Led Zeppelin in their track, Black Mountain Side.

He recently played two shows with Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty. They appropriatly played Bert’s song, Needle Of Death.

Incredibly, this amazing man has not stopped creating new music, and will be playing from his new album, Black Swan, today.

This will be a historic event, not to be missed.