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Excerpted
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Guitar
magazine, April 2001, No. 101.
News
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There were two Guitar Talk Open Mic events during March. Online
buddies from the Acoustic Guitar Central discussion forums gathered
in Livermore, California, and Valparaiso, Indiana. See some photos
from the events here online:
Left-Coast
Gathering
Midwest
Gathering
After learning that a recently discovered dinosaur had been named
Masiakasauras knopfleri because Dire Straits’ music had accompanied
the archaeologists’ Madagascar dig, Mark Knopfler quipped,
"I am really delighted. This is a very special honor. The fact
that it’s a dinosaur is really apt, but I’m happy to report that
I’m not the least bit vicious."
When the new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opens
in downtown Nashville this May, visitors will be treated to live
music, interactive displays, a theater featuring digital film presentations,
and relics such as Hank Williams’ musical suit and guitars played
by Jimmie Rodgers and Mother Maybelle Carter. For more information,
go to www.country.com.
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Events
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May 24–28 brings the Spring Strawberry Music Festival to
Camp Mather, in Yosemite, California. Nickel Creek, the
Seldom Scene, and Willis Allan Ramsey will perform and
be broadcast live on the festival’s temporary, volunteer-driven
FM station, Hog Ranch Radio. For more information, go to www.strawberrymusic.com.
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.
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Cuban-American singer-songwriter Isaac Guillory died December
31 from undetected cancer. Guillory had one U.S. solo release in
1974 (many more in Europe) and over the years worked with Donovan,
Joan Baez, and Mick Jagger. Learn more about Guillory and hear samples
of his music at www.anetstation.com/guillory.
"Queen of the Cowgirls" Dale Evans died February
7 of congestive heart failure. Evans co-wrote "Happy Trails
to You" with her husband Roy Rogers and starred with him in
35 movies and two television shows in the ’50s and ’60s. She also
was a best-selling author of two books: Angel Unaware and
last year’s Life Is a Blessing.
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.
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