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The National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences recently confirmed that Alison
Krauss has won more Grammy awards than any other female country
artist in history. Her 13 Grammies put her two awards behind all-time
female leader Aretha Franklin.
No Depression
magazine debuted its weekly, two-hour No Depression Alt-Country
Radio Show in April. The program, designed to encourage country
stations to include alternative country programming, will
be syndicated nationwide by the NBG Radio Network and is produced
and hosted by Rob Reinhart, who launched the syndicated radio show
Acoustic Café in 1994.
Owensboro, Kentucky's
International Bluegrass Music Museum reopened its doors in
April after a $3 million renovation that tripled the exhibit space
and added more interactive exhibits. The IBMM's next project is
to create an archive to help scholars research the history of bluegrass.
The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill will make rare audio recordings of Bob Dylan,
Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, and other '60s folksingers
available to the public for the first time. A grant from the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will enable the university
to transfer the deteriorating tapes (some donated by Broadside
magazine publisher Gordon Friesen) to CD. For more information,
go to www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1.
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Events
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The New York Guitar
Seminar at Mannes will take place June 30–July 4 at Mannes
College of Music in Manhattan (www.mannes.edu/guitar).
Instructors include the Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo, Sharon Isbin,
Benjamin Verdery, Antigoni Goni, and Frederic Hand.
Artists as diverse
as the Beach Boys, Willie Nelson, Keb' Mo', the B-52s, Nickel Creek,
and Bonnie Raitt and Lyle Lovett (in a double bill) will be joining
the Ravinia Festival's pop and jazz lineup for 2002. The festival
will be held June 7–September 8 in Highland Park, Illinois.
For information, go to www.ravinia.org
or call (847) 266-5087.
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New
Releases
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Jessica Baron Turner's
new book Smart Start Guitar Ages 12 and Up: For Late Bloomers,
Baby Boomers, and Their Teens (Hal Leonard) uses open tunings
to help adult guitar students quickly develop their musical
skills.
Acoustic Sessions recently
released a three-video Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar series:
The Basics, Fretboard Logic, and Ragtime and Gospel, taught
by Woody Mann. For more information, visit www.acousticsessions.com.
Gypsy jazz fans
will want to check out Stéphane Grappelli—A Life
in the Jazz Century, the new DVD from Music on Earth featuring
interviews with Grappelli and archival musical performances, including
all known footage of Django Reinhardt. For more information, go
to www.musiconearth.co.uk.
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Contests
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Unsigned guitar players
and bands can submit three-song cassettes or CDs to the Open Strings
Festival guitar contest before July 15 for a chance to win a
recording contract from festival sponsor Acoustic Music. Finalists
will perform on opening day of the festival, September 29, in Osnabrück,
Germany. For entry rules, go to www.open-strings.de.
Goodnight Kiss Music
is sponsoring two songwriting contests: Original Story Songs
and the Big Hit Remake. Songwriters must submit their original composition
or reworked hit by another artist by December 5. Winners' songs
may be used by Goodnight Kiss in film and TV projects. For contest
rules, visit www.goodnightkiss.com/contest.html.
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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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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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Excerpted from Acoustic
Guitar magazine, July
2002, No. 115.
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