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Excerpted
from Acoustic
Guitar
magazine, April 2001, No. 101.
News
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At the 2001 Grammy Awards, Alison Brown’s "Leaving
Cottondale" was named Best Country Instrumental; Dolly Parton’s
The Grass Is Blue won the Best Bluegrass Album award; B.B.
King and Eric Clapton’s Riding with the King was
crowned Best Traditional Blues Album; Dave Alvin won the
Best Traditional Folk Album award for Public Domain; Emmylou
Harris’ Red Dirt Girl was named the Best Contemporary
Folk Album; and Acoustic Guitar contributing editor Sharon
Isbin’s Dreams of a World won Best Instrumental Soloist
Performance (without Orchestra).
British folk veteran Bert Jansch was presented with a lifetime
achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, held February
5 in London. Norma Waterson was named Folksinger of the Year,
and Taj Mahal took home the Roots Artist award.
The Barenaked Ladies and Nelly Furtado each received
a handful of Canada’s 2001 Juno Awards. Other winners included Joni
Mitchell, Neil Young, and Bruce Cockburn, who was inducted
into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis woke February 10
to Alison Brown’s "Girl’s Breakdown," written especially
for mission specialist Marsha Ivins, who that day had the task of
attaching the spacelab Destiny to the International Space
Station.
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) is offering more than
10,000 samples of Wristreleve, a corrective wrist support that relieves
the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome without immobilizing wrists
or hands, to members across the country. For more information, visit
www.wristreleve.com
or call (800) 677-0355.
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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 Acoustic Blues and Slide Guitar Workshop will be held June
16–22 at Columbia University in New York City. The teaching staff
includes Woody Mann, Bob Brozman, John Renbourn, John Cephas,
and many others. For more information, call (646) 242-4471 or visit
www.guitarseminars.com.
Blue Highway, the Seldom Scene, the Lonesome River
Band, Nickel Creek, and others will entertain visitors to the
Huck Finn Jubilee, June 15–17 in Victorville, California. Other
activities at the Mojave Narrows Regional Park include camping,
fishing, river-raft building, and the California State Arm Wrestling
Championships. For more information, call (909) 780-8810 or go to
www.huckfinn.com.
The Sea Music Festival sails June 7–10 in Mystic, Connecticut.
Featured performers include Liam Clancy, Cindy Kallet, Matapat,
and Magpie, and attendees will get a chance to help hoist
a 1,000-pound sail on a tall ship while singing sea chanteys with
their mates. For more information, call (888) 9SEAPORT or go to
www.mysticseaport.org.
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Contests
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The SIBL (Songs Inspired by Literature) Project’s Songwriting
Competition, which raises funds for adult literacy programs,
is seeking songs inspired by books, poems, or plays. Examples of
famous SIBLs are Kate Bush’s "Wuthering Heights," Bruce
Springsteen’s Grapes of Wrath–inspired "Ghost of Tom
Joad," and Indigo Girls’ "Virginia Woolf." Submissions
will be accepted from May 1 to September 8, World Literacy Day.
For more information, visit www.siblproject.org
or call (415) 553-3330.
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New
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Slack-key guitar fans will be left slack-jawed by Mark Hanson’s
new Masters of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar, Vols.
1 and 2. The book-and-CD sets include note-for-note transcriptions
by such legends as Ray Kane, Sonny Chillingworth, Leonard Kwan,
Cyril Pahinui, Ledward Kaapana, and more. For more information,
visit www.accentonmusic.com.
Budding superstars may want to add Jim Halsey’s How to Make
It in the Music Business to their nightstands. Halsey
has helped guide the careers of Roy Clark, James Brown, Dwight Yoakam,
Roy Orbison, and others, and his book, which is available at www.jimhalsey.com
or by calling (918) 624-1200, is packed with advice and hundreds
of music-biz contacts.
Free Reed Records (www.free-reed.co.uk)
has released The Carthy Chronicles, a four-CD set of rare,
live, and classic tracks spanning English folk legend Martin
Carthy’s 40-year musical career. The exhaustive compilation
includes five hours of music, a CD-ROM, a 96-page book, and a classic
Carthy poster.
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Cyber
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The Digital Club Network (www.dcn.com)
offers Webcasts of more than 150 live performances each week
from clubs across the nation. Events are available to viewers live
and on-demand, and featured performers have included John Mayer,
Peter Case, and Geoff Muldaur.
Hear new songs by your favorite musical stars and discover
little-known performers when you visit www.pickthehits.com.
Register your opinions of songs offered before they receive radio
play, and earn chances at cash prizes.
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