The Franklin Opera House will present Randy Armstrong at the Franklin Public Library on Saturday, January 13.

 Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “sure-fingered guitar virtuoso,” Randy Armstrong is the co-founder of Do’a World Music Ensemble, Unu Mondo, & Beyond Borders. With a collection of over three hundred instruments from around the world, including acoustic, synthesizer and nylon-string guitars, sitar, balofon, djembe, koto, charango, mbira and a wide variety of percussion and stringed instruments, he has amazed audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Alaska, India, West and South Africa, Croatia, Belize, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Randy travelled to Central America and West Africa in 2004 performing and studying with Garifuna musicians and drummers in Dangriga and Hopkins, Belize and Ewe, Fanti and Ga drummers in Accra and Legon, Ghana.

He was the director of the African Drumming & World Percussion Ensemble and faculty instructor of North Indian sitar and tabla at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1991 to 2020 and has taught for the Graduate Studies Integrated Arts Program at Plymouth State University.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. This is a general admission event with limited seating. Tickets are $16 for adults and $14 for Students/Seniors/Children. Visit www.fohnh.org for advance purchase.