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More than 20 Wammies later, a guitarist keeps on groovin'


Tom Principato's New Orleans influences make him a natural for Saturday's Mardi Gras benefit.

In the 24 years that the Washington Area Music Association has been handing out Wammies, Tom Principato, a guitarist and practitioner of "eclectic roots music," has won just as many.

At the last Washington Area Music Awards, held on Feb. 28 at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Va., Principato, who is often described as a "guitarist's guitarist," was dubbed best blues/traditional R&B instrumentalist for what he guesses was the 10th time. He doesn't mind, meanwhile, that he continues to take home Wammies in blues categories even if blues is not exactly what he plays these days.

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