I attended The Tommy Emmanuel show last Sunday.  It wasn't Heavy Metal loud like some of his shows and I liked that a immensely.

He played many new tunes for the first part of the show which was great.  He did however go into a few very extended single note improv sections which were technically impressive but a bit boring.  In fact as I wandered about the lobby during intermission, I heard the comment,"It was a real shred fest."  And it was said in an unfavorable manner.

Tommy did a Merle medley and sang other songs as well and I admit I go to see him play guitar not sing so that was a bit disappointing.  His intros to songs were great as well as his "guitar lesson".

In conclusion, I must mention that when I left I had Classical Gas and one of the songs he sang running through my head which surprised me because Tommy is a great guitar composer besides being a great guitarist and I would really rather see him play just his own material, which is very good, rather than cover tunes.