Long Beach, Wash. — The Peninsula Arts Center welcomes back acoustic guitarist Doug Smith at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 25. Tickets are $12, and doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Smith is a 2005 Grammy Award winner and the 2006 winner of the prestigious Winfield International Finger-style Guitar Competition.

His playing has been heard on the big screen in the popular 2007 film “August Rush” and his original compositions are heard everywhere from NPR and TCM to “Martha Stewart” and “Good Morning America.” His playing combines folk, classical and jazz elements and has been called a cross between Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges.

Popular originals such as “Renewal” and “Order of Magnitude;” clever arrangements such as his medley of “Ave Maria” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love;” dazzling pieces like the tour-de-force “Stars and Stripes Forever” and his dynamic stage presence have dazzled audiences around the world including Japan, Taiwan and China.

Smith won a Grammy, along with 11 other great guitarists, for his contribution to the Henry Mancini tribute CD “Pink Guitar,” which won in the category of Best Pop Instrumental CD. By himself, he has a dozen CDs to his credit.

He has shared the stage with such guitar luminaries as Laurence Juber, Tommy Emmanuel and Andy McKee, and he just finished up another tour of Japan.

His wife, flautist and vocalist Judy Koch Smith will be joining him at the arts center.

The Peninsula Arts Center is located at 504 Pacific Ave. N. For information call 360-901-0962. To make reservations, go to www.peninsulaartscenter.org

7 p.m. Saturday, April 25

Peninsula Arts Center

504 Pacific Ave. N., Long Beach, Washington

360-901-0962

$12