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HOB's Make an Impression Guitar Program.
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News
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The International House
of Blues Foundation (www.ihobf.org)
has expanded its Make an Impression Guitar Program, which encourages
guitar education in schools and community centers, to Chicago,
Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Orlando.
The Smithsonian Institution’s
acclaimed exhibit This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy
of Woody Guthrie will be on view at the Oklahoma Museum
of History in Oklahoma City until May 4. For information, call (405)
522-5248.
Dobro master Josh
Graves returned to the hospital early this year to have his
remaining leg amputated. Those wishing to help with Graves’
medical expenses can send donations to the Josh Graves Benefit Fund,
Bank of America, 1013 16th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212 or call
(615) 291-2856.
Amandla!, a documentary
exploring the role of music in South Africa’s anti-apartheid
movement, won both the Documentary Audience Award and the Freedom
of Expression Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
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Events
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The Kerrville Folk Festival
has added a Roots and Blues Guitar Camp to this year's events. Steve
James, Del Rey, and Spider John Koerner will be teaching
roots and blues technique, fingerpicking, slide guitar, and more,
May 28–30. To register, visit www.kerrvillefolkfestival.com.
Sharon Isbin
will teach classical guitar master classes at the Aspen Music Festival,
July 19-August 18. Classes will concentrate on technique, sound
production, interpretation, and Baroque performance practices. For
more information, call (970) 925-3254 or visit www.aspenmusicfestival.com.
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New
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Columbia/Legacy is celebrating
country legend Johnny Cash's 70th birthday with a yearlong
schedule of releases, beginning with The Essential Johnny Cash
and expanded editions of five Cash albums that have never before
been available in the U.S. on CD.
Banjo and guitar picker
Alison Brown has two new albums out this year. In January,
Compass Records released Replay, which features new versions
of fan favorites. Some of the original versions of those tunes appear
on Best of the Vanguard Years, compiled from Brown's four
Vanguard recordings released between 1990 and 1996.
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In
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Country musician Waylon
Jennings died February 13 at age 64. Jennings’ career spanned
five decades and included 16 number one country singles. Jennings
played bass for Buddy Holly and later helped define country’s
outlaw movement, a product of his fierce determination to do music
his way. Along with contemporaries such as Willie Nelson, Jennings
added a raw sound and restless spirit to country, creating an alternative
to Nashville’s polished "countrypolitan" style. Jennings was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last year.
Blues and ragtime fingerstyle
legend Dave Van Ronk died in New York City on February 10.
Van Ronk was dubbed the "the mayor of Greenwich Village" during
the '60s because of his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz and blues,
and he became an important mentor for the young Bob Dylan and the
burgeoning New York folk-music scene. Mainstream success eluded
him, but Van Ronk he remained influential and active in the folk
community. He performed and recorded until the end of last year,
when surgery for colon cancer forced him off the road. His most
recent album was the jazz-influenced Sweet and Lowdown, which
was released last year via Santa Monica-based Folklore. He received
a traditional folk Grammy nomination in 1996 for From . . . Another
Time & Place.
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Cyber
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Listen.com
recently launched Rhapsody, an interactive digital music service
that combines Internet radio, music reviews and recommendations,
and, for a monthly fee, licensed music-on-demand in a single application.
Music librarian, author, and Deadhead David Dodd combines his passions
in the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics Web site. Dead-icated
fans can peruse lyrical analysis, background information, and critical
essays for more than 125 songs at http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl.
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Meet
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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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Got some news? Send it to Happenings,
Acoustic Guitar, PO Box 767, San Anselmo, CA 94979-0767; email
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