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Doc Watson won
the Traditional Folk Indie Award (for his Legacy album with
David Holt) at the Association for Independent Music Indie Awards
held in Orlando, Florida, on March 19. The reunited Flatlanders
snagged the Americana prize for Now Again, Alison Krauss
picked up the Bluegrass trophy for Union Station Live, and
banjo and guitar picker Alison Brown's Quartet won the Acoustic
Instrumental award for Replay.
The New School University's
Jazz Program honored veteran guitarist Les Paul with a Beacon
in Jazz Award on April 1. The fleet-fingered Paul, who introduced
multitrack recording in 1948, earned the title "father of the electric
guitar" when Gibson introduced its solid-body Les Paul model in
1952. Paul, 88, still performs two shows every Monday night at the
Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan.
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Events
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Taj
Mahal, Patty Larkin, Dave Alvin, Iris DeMent, Greg Brown, Mary Chapin
Carpenter, the Tim O'Brien Band, Rosalie Sorrels, Nina Gerber, and
others are slated for the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival,
June 27–29, at the Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, California.
Details are available at www.monitor.net/kate.
The Old Songs Festival
of Traditional Music and Dance, June 27–29, at the Altamont
Fairgrounds, Altamont, New York, presents concerts and workshops
touching upon the musical legacies of the U.S., Senegal, Brittany,
Quebec, China, and other far-flung regions. Performers include Fairport
Convention, John McCutcheon, Mike Seeger, the Fode Sissoko Trio,
and more. Hands-on music classes are included with the all-festival
ticket. For more information, go to www.oldsongs.org.
Seminars on early 19th-century
Viennese guitarist Mauro Giuliani, the similarities between bebop
and Bach, and yoga for musicians are among the atypical offerings
at the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival, July 14–18,
at Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph, Missouri. The entire
schedule is available at www.mwsc.edu/guitarfestival.
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New
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Happy All the Time,
the classic 1964 album by Bahamian folk musician Joseph Spence
has been remastered from the original tapes and released on CD by
Water Records (PO Box 2947, San Francisco, California 94126). Spence's
idiosyncratic singing and fingerstyle guitar playing profoundly
influenced Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, David Lindley, and the Grateful
Dead.
Welsh guitarist Peter
Broadbent has updated his book Charlie Christian Solo Flight:
The Seminal Electric Guitarist (Ashley Mark, www.ashleymark.co.uk).
Originally published in 1997, the redesigned and rewritten large-format
book includes a complete discography and more than 100 photographs.
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In
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Guitarist Chris Michie
died March 27 at his home in Fairfax, California, at age 55, after
a six-year battle with melanoma. Michie was a top session guitarist,
recording and touring with the Pointer Sisters, Jerry Garcia, Boz
Scaggs, Maria Muldaur, and others. In 1981 he recorded the lead
guitar part (over Mark Knopfler's rhythm guitar track) on Van Morrison's
"Cleaning Windows," and he toured and recorded with the Belfast
Cowboy for the next four years. His solo work included the albums
Tough Love and Seven Rivers and the score for the
Judy Irving film The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.
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Contests
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The winner of the Mountain
Stage NewSong Festival songwriters' contest will pick up a $500
cash prize and appear in the festival-closing slot, broadcast
on Mountain Stage, September 28, from Charles Town, West
Virginia. For details, go to www.newsongfestival.com.
Unsigned artists can
submit their original demo tapes to the JBL Record Like the Pros
contest for the chance to win a recording session at Cherokee
Studios in Hollywood, California. For entry rules see www.guitarcenter.com/events/recordpro/recordpro_standard.shtml.
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Cyber
Notes
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Gregg Miner's Knutsen
Archives (home.earthlink.net/~chrisknutsen)
is an online museum dedicated to harp guitar builder Chris Knutsen.
The site includes historical information and extensive photographs
of Knutsen's instruments.
German luthiers Uli
Albert and Toni Müller offer printable and downloadable PDFs
of blank guitar and mandolin tab paper, standard notation
paper, and chord diagram sheets in their A&M Cafe (www.albert-mueller.de/cafe/print/print.html).
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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
2003, No. 127.
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