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Excerpted
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Guitar
magazine, August 2001, No. 104.
News
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The Association for Independent Music (AFIM) Indie Awards
were held May 5 in Los Angeles. Winners included Al Petteway and
Amy White’s Gratitude (Acoustic Instrumental), Greg Brown’s
Covenant (Contemporary Folk), Dan Tyminski’s Carry Me
Across the Mountain (Bluegrass), Bruce Molsky’s Poor Man’s
Troubles (Traditional Folk), and Peter Case’s Flying Saucer
Blues (Americana). Learn more at www.afim.org.
The American Music Education Initiative of the National
Music Foundation encourages K–12 teachers of any subject to create
lesson plans using American music. Teachers whose lessons are selected
as finalists and semifinalists will receive cash grants from the
NMF, and their plans will be published on the foundation’s Web site.
For more information, visit www.usamusic.org
or call (800) USA-MUSIC.
 Doc
inspires a championship contest.
Toni Catlin, Bethany Dick, David Via, and Becky Buller were all
winners at the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest held at MerleFest
in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, April 26–29. Josh Pickett won the
Doc Watson Guitar Championship, with Mike Duggin taking second
and Rob Pearcy nabbing third. For more information, visit www.merlefest.org.
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Events
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The Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, will present
a one-week master class August 12–19 with the Castellani-Andriaccio
guitar duo. Call (716) 681-8106 or visit www.fleurdeson.com/duo/festivals/festivals.html
for details.
The Flatrock Music Festival comes to Camp Ton-A-Wandah in Flat
Rock, North Carolina, August 24–26. Doc Watson headlines
a weekend of performances, workshops, camping, canoeing, and more.
Go to www.flatrockmusicfestival.com
or call (828) 692-2005 for further details.
Bouzouki enthusiasts from around the world will be heading to Taos,
New Mexico, August 11–18 for ZoukFest. Classes will be held
August 13-17, with a staff concert on Friday evening. Staff includes
Grey Larsen, Paddy League, Roger Landes, Chipper Thompson, Chris
Smith, and others. Go to www.celticmusic.com/roger_landes
or call (505) 751-3512 for more information.
The Acoustic Blues and Slide Guitar Workshop holds court at Dominican
College in San Rafael, California, July 28–August 3. A week of classes,
workshops, concerts, and jams will be led by faculty members Woody
Mann, Bob Brozman, John Cephas, John Renbourn, Mary Flower, Orville
Johnson, Happy Traum, and others. More details are available
at www.guitarseminars.com
or by calling (646) 242-4471.
The
Healdsburg Guitar Festival
takes place in Healdsburg, California August 15–19.
Check out the list of participating world-class luthiers, performers,
and instructors at www.guitarfestival2001.com.
A.G. is the exclusive media sponsor for the Healdsburg Guitar
Festival. Pick up a free copy of Acoustic Guitar magazine,
meet the staff, see the full SLP product line, and enter to win
a copy of the Custom Guitars book. We'll be selling our popular
guides, songbooks, and lesson books at this event.
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In
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Genre-mixing pioneer Sandy Bull died April 11 at age 60.
An acoustic and electric guitarist, Bull was introduced to the oud
by Hamza El Din and went on to compose works for guitar, oud, and
other stringed instruments that incorporated elements of classical,
jazz, and ethnic music. His 1963 recording Fantasias for Guitar
and Banjo was an underground classic that influenced the likes
of Joan Baez, Steve Winwood, and Jimi Hendrix. In 1999, Vanguard
Records released Re-Inventions: Best of the Vanguard Years, which
included Bull’s signature piece "Blend," a 22-minute improvisational
romp with jazz drummer Billy Higgins, who passed away May 3.
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Contests
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The theme of the ZAP Environmental Songwriting Contest is
"Solutions for Pollution." Submissions of original songs will be
accepted until December 2001, and the winners will be announced
on Earth Day 2002. For more information, call (707) 824-4150, ext.
225, or visit www.zapworld.com/contest.
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New
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With Dan Hicks’ resurrected Hot Licks currently touring
the country, Epic/Legacy’s newly released The Most of Dan Hicks
and the Hot Licks is particularly welcome. The reissue consists
of tracks from the ethereally twisted string-swing band’s 1969 debut,
Original Recordings, as well as selected cuts from later
albums and a few unreleased songs.
Old folkies will want to revisit the ’60s Greenwich Village
folk scene with Rhino Record’s three-CD box set, Washington
Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom (1950–1970) and then
curl up with David Hajdu’s new book Positively Fourth
Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña,
and Richard Fariña (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
Musician’s Workshop (www.musicians-workshop.com) has released two
new videos by jazz guitarist and arranger John Carlini: Chord
Solo Guitar, Vols. 1 and 2. On each tape, Carlini, who has collaborated
with David Grisman, Tony Rice, and others, teaches chord-solo arrangements
of five standard tunes ("Take the A Train," "Norwegian Wood," "One-Note
Samba") in both fingerpicking and flatpicking styles.
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Meet
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music events and trade shows. Listed below are some things happening
in the next few weeks.
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