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Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs and rockabilly guitarist
Scotty Moore were recognized with lifetime achievement awards
at the 2002 Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards. Other winners included
Dave Matthews and India.Arie, for Best Acoustic Guitarist,
male and female.
National Public Radio's classical music program Performance
Today recently chose guitarist Jason Vieaux as a Young
Artist in Residence. A former first-prize winner at the Guitar Foundation
of America's International Competition, Vieaux is currently on the
faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Saint Paul, Minnesota's Musictech College recently expanded
into a $3.6 million, 60,000 square foot facility, providing 10,000
square feet of recording studios and a 300-seat auditorium for the
college's more than 250 instrumental and production students. For
more information, go to www.musictech.com.
In a ceremony held February 11, British folksinger Kate Rusby's
"Who Will Sing Me Lullabies" won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for
Best Original Song. Martin Carthy was named Folksinger of the Year;
Martin Simpson took home awards for Best Album (The Bramble Briar)
and Best Instrumentalist; and Fairport Convention, Ralph McTell,
and the Chieftains were all recognized with lifetime achievement
awards.
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Events
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Classical guitarist David Starobin will be teaching a master
class in Pasadena, California, on June 2. Applicants should call
Felix Bullock at Guitarra del Mar, (626) 584-0571.
Steve Kaufman has added a Fingerpicking Camp to his camp
series (www.flatpik.com).
The camp, taught by Stephen Bennett, Rolly Brown, Tommy Emmanuel,
Pat Kirtley, Eddie Pennington, and Tony McManus, will be held June
9—15 at Tennessee's Maryville College.
The Resophonic Night Out festival will be held June 21—22
at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The festival
includes master classes, workshops, jams, and concerts by Bob
Brozman, Mike Auldridge, and Hull and Larson. For information,
visit www.iresonation.org.
Allegheny Echoes' weeklong workshops (www.alleghenyechoes.com)
in guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, voice, dulcimer, and songwriting
will be held June 23—29 in the Snowshoe Mountain resort in
West Virginia.
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New
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Capitol Records has reissued the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's landmark
1972 recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken. The first
bluegrass album to go platinum, the recording features guest musicians
Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Vassar
Clements, Merle Travis, and Roy Acuff. The remastered rerelease
contains two new tracks and previously unseen photographs.
On Blue Country Heart, Jorma Kaukonen explores rural
blues songs from the 1920s and '30s. The former Jefferson Airplane
guitarist is joined by Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Byron House, and
special guest Béla Fleck for his Columbia Records debut.
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In
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Country songwriter Harlan Howard died March 3 at age 74.
Howard penned more than 100 Top 10 songs, including "I Fall to Pieces,"
"Busted," and "Heartaches by the Number," and holds the record for
having the most songs (15) on the country charts at the same time.
Howard's songs have been recorded by Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Ray
Charles, the Judds, Trisha Yearwood, and Waylon Jennings.
Mark Vann, banjo player for jam band Leftover Salmon, died
of cancer on March 4. After winning the banjo contest at the Telluride
Bluegrass Festival in 1989, Vann moved to Colorado to join the Left
Hand String Band, which evolved into Leftover Salmon. Vann played
on all the band's CDs, including the new Live (Compass).
Innovative old-time and world music bass player Dave Grant
died in a work-related accident on March 5. Grant performed and
recorded throughout North America and the British Isles with such
musicians as Tony Furtado, Tim O'Brien, Peter Rowan, and Jones and
Leva.
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Cyber
Notes
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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 website. 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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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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Excerpted from Acoustic
Guitar magazine, June
2002, No. 114.
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Got some news? Send it to Happenings, Acoustic
Guitar, PO Box 767, San Anselmo, CA 94979-0767; email happenings.ag@stringletter.com;
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Earl Scruggs takes the prize.