Joanne Shaw Taylor at Center for the Arts

Joanne Shaw Taylor was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16, who, having watched her play, immediately invited her on the road with his supergroup D.U.P. – a career in music was born, and in the preceding years, her incredible guitar playing saw her build an army of plaudits including Jimmy Cliff, Joe Bonamassa, Stevie Wonder and Annie Lennox.