Over the course of more than five albums and many decades of really trying, virtuoso guitarist Peppino D’Agostino has shown professional strummers how to properly warp and bend genres with an emotive, impassioned flair—and not just because he’s an Italian (as if such a vowel-heavy name would belong to a white boy with a Fender!). His compositions feature the spicy, dicey interaction of often competing, culturally-specific genres—a little bluegrass here, dash of rustic folk there—sprinkled with the sounds of his boot-shaped homeland, plus a heaping tablespoon of flamenco jazz. It’s kinda new age-y, kinda contemporary, but in a good, forward-thinking, not easy-listening, way. Indeed, his technical skills are so admired, that Guitar Magazine’s readers voted ol’ Peppino “Best Acoustic Guitarists” last year.KEVIN CAPP

Listen to a sample of Peppino D’Agostino’s “Uno Sguardo nel Passato.”

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Thu., March 13, 7:30 p.m., 2008