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Excerpted
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Guitar magazine, September 2001, No. 105.
News
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 Barrueco with some
little rockers.
Carlos Santana, and Manuel Barrueco are among those
donating their time and talents to Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit
organization that provides guitars, musical instruction, and access
to recording equipment to low-income children in the San Francisco
Bay Area. For more information and to hear songs written by the
kids, check out www.littlekidsrock.org.
The W.C. Handy Blues Awards were held May 24 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Winners included Robert Lockwood, Jr.’s Delta Crossroads
(Acoustic Album of the Year), B.B. King and Eric Clapton’s
Riding with the King (Contemporary Album of the Year), and Keb’
Mo’ (Acoustic Artist of the Year). See the
complete list of winners at www.handyawards.com.
Gillian Welch has formed Acony Records with musical partner
David Rawlings. Welch and Rawlings are co-presidents of the
new label and will be its only artists. They have released a new
recording, Time (the Revelator), as well as reissues of Welch’s
previous Almo Sounds albums—her 1996 debut, Revival, and
1998’s Hell among the Yearlings.
The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is funding Music
for Suzy, a nonprofit program designed by Genz Benz Enclosures
and the Arizona State University Music Department to bring music
education to children in day care centers. See www.genzbenz.com
for more details.
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Events
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The Sebastopol Celtic
Festival brings "a drop of the pure" to Sebastopol, California,
September 28–30. Get your fill of workshops, master classes, Scottish
heavy athletics, and performances by Martin Hayes and Dennis
Cahill, Lúnasa, Kevin Burke, Paddy Keenan, Dick Gaughan and
Brian McNeill, Cucanandy, and Wake the Dead. For more
information go to www.monitor.net/celtic.
Wake the Dead play Celtic settings of
Grateful Dead songs at the Sebastopol Celtic Festival.
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In
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Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, banjo player since 1935 for
the Light Crust Doughboys, died June 6 at age 88 in Dallas. The
Doughboys, formed in 1931 by Bob Wills and Milton Brown, shared
a Grammy nomination this year in the category of Southern, country,
or bluegrass gospel album for The Great Gospel Hit Parade. Montgomery's
long career was highlighted by his 1995 solo album Remember Me.
Reclusive folksinger and songwriter Fred Neil died July
7 at age 64 in his Florida home. Neil's deep, resonant voice inspired
singers like Tim Buckley and Tim Hardin, while Stephen Stills claimed
Neil as an influence on his guitar playing. Neil's songwriting credits
include "Candy Man" (a hit for Roy Orbison) and "Everybody's Talkin'"
(featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, as recorded by Harry
Nilsson). Neil retreated from the music world in 1971, and his recordings
have been largely unavailable, except for the compilation The Many
Sides of Fred Neil released by Collector's Choice in 1998.
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Cyber
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Find
out everything you ever wanted to know about the tenor guitar at
www.tenorguitar.com,
a site created and hosted by a handful of four-string enthusiasts
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Acoustic Guitar magazine
is sponsoring Sisters Folk Fest, September 7–9, in Sisters,
Oregon, and La Guitarra California, September 28–30, in San
Luis Obispo, California.
Sisters is an acoustic
music and folk art festival, and La Guitarra California focuses
on classical guitar from all angles. Meet A.G. advertising
manager Rich Osweiler and pick up a free copy of Acoustic Guitar.
For more information on both events, visit www.acousticguitar.com/outreach.
Click
here to meet the Acoustic Guitar team at a wide variety upcoming
music events and trade shows. Listed below are some things happening
in the next few weeks.
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