I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: September 3, 2025] David Bakey

We didn’t really plan to go to  this show, especially since it was right at the beginning of the school year.  But, since these shows have a strict 9:30 curfew, we decided to drive the hour and get a free show with Karina Rykman!

It was announced that David Bakey would be opening.  Bakey is a NJ based guitarist (his father apparently works for Camden County).  I had never heard of him (and I would guess that he and Karina might not have even met as neither one acknowledged the other from the stage).

Bakey is more than a guitarist.  He plays a phenomenal style in which he uses both hands on the fretboard, but also created percussive sounds and chords with his right hand while his left is playing fairly complicated melodies.

He played six songs, all of which were pretty long and with multiple components.

For the first two songs he sat and played acoustic guitar.  For the next one he stood and played the electric guitar.  Then came the show stopper–he played his electric with his left hand and with his right, he played a guitar that was on a table.  So he was basically tapping both guitars at the same time. It was amazing to watch.

He ended the set with two more acoustic guitar songs, one of which was on the 12 string and sounded glorious.

I don’t know what the songs were called (he didn’t say much).  Heh, as I look at his album online, it seems that most of his songs are fairly short, so maybe he played many short pieces instead of a few longer ones.

It was a gorgeous night in the park and his music was suitably delightful.