Excerpted from Acoustic Guitar magazine, April 2001, No. 100.

News RETURN TO TOP	A reward of $500 has been posted for the retrieval of Peter Yarrow’s Larrivée guitar, which he lost on a Delta Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on December 9. The six-string guitar was in a black Calton case with Yarrow’s name on the outside. Please contact Walk Street Management at (310) 399-5001 with any pertinent information. Healdsburg, California–based CFox Guitars continues its program, Contemporary Guitar Making, despite last year’s closing of the American School of Lutherie. Offered four times a year, the course is a comprehensive survey of the luthier’s craft. For more information, call (707) 431-7836 or go to www.cfoxguitars.com.
Events RETURN TO TOP	The photography exhibit Artist to Icon, featuring black-and-white photographs of the Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Bob Dylan in their pre-icon innocence, is at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, until May 1. See a preview at www.emplive.com. The Nordic Roots Festival rolls into Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 19–22. Activities include performances by Swåp, the Nyckelharpa Orchestra, Groupa, and the Hurdy Gurdy Project; Nordic dance instruction; and various workshops. Learn more at www.noside.com. The first Women and Music festival will take place April 28 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Scheduled performers include Catie Curtis, Erin McKeown, Toshi Reagon, and Antigone Rising. For more information, go to www.wamfest.com. The NEMO music showcase and conference will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, April 19–21. The conference also hosts the Boston Music Awards show on opening night. For more information, go to www.nemoboston.com or phone (781) 306-0441.
In Memory RETURN TO TOP	Legendary guitarist John Fahey passed away in Salem, Oregon, on Thursday, February 22. Fahey was among the 20th century's most influential guitarists, with a style that embraced country blues, mountain music, Indian ragas, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, and psychedelia. His eccentric instrumental musings paved the way for much of today's modern fingerstyle guitar music. Read more about Fahey at www.johnfahey.com. Pop singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl (daughter of English folk-music legend Ewan MacColl) died December 18 in a boating accident in Mexico. In addition to several Top 40 singles of her own in Britain, MacColl sang on albums by the Rolling Stones, the Smiths, the Pogues, Talking Heads, and Van Morrison. Jimmie Davis, the "Singing Governor," probably best known for his classic "You Are My Sunshine", died at his Baton Rouge, Louisiana, home on November 5. Davis was a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame and also served two terms as the governor of Louisiana.
Meet A.G. RETURN TO TOP	Guitarists who meet on the Guitar Talk discussion forums at our Web site, www.acousticguitar.com, will congregate for the first two Guitar Talk Open Mic events in March. The festivities begin on March 24 at Fretted Friends (www.frettedfriends.com) in Livermore, California. Editors Teja Gerken, Paul Kotapish, and former editor Dylan Schorer will be on hand, and the exclusive Acoustic Guitar magazine Tenth Anniversary Guitar Collection will be available for ogling and playing. A week later on March 31 folks will congregate at Front Porch Music (www.frontporchmusic.com) in Valparaiso, Indiana. The original A.G. editor and senior writer Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers will help facilitate the festivities. A couple of the Anniversary guitars will be there, too. Advertising director Dan Gabel and gear editor Teja Gerken will be keeping their eyes peeled for new and wondrous music-related offerings from more than 1,500 exhibitors at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany, March 7–11. For more information, go to www.musikmesse.de. Click here to meet the Acoustic Guitar team at these upcoming music events and trade shows.

 

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