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Gypsy jazz aficionados
will be migrating to tiny seaside Langley, Washington, for DjangoFest
Northwest, October 2—5, at the Whidbey Island Center for
the Arts. Reinhardt-inspired musicians from far and wide, including
Angelo Debarre, Serge Camps, and Patrick Saussois (France); the
Robin Nolan Trio (Netherlands); Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan
(Chicago); and Pearl Django and Hot Club Sandwich (Seattle), will
be conducting workshops and giving concerts. For details call (800)
638-7631 or visit www.wicaonline.com.
The annual International
Bluegrass Music Awards will be handed out on October 2 at the Kentucky
Center for the Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, during the IBMA's World
of Bluegrass week (September 29—October 5). Activities
include an industry trade show, seminars and jam sessions for musicians,
workshops for teachers, nightly showcase concerts, and a three-day
Bluegrass Fan Fest, October 3—5. More than 40 artists are scheduled
to appear, including Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, IIIrd Tyme Out,
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, J.D. Crowe and the New South, and
Jesse McReynolds and the Virginia Boys. Call (615) 256-3222 or go
to www.ibma.org
for more information.
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Events
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John Cephas and
Rory Block are among the master blues musicians who will
be sharing their secrets at the Telluride Acoustic Blues Camp,
September 11—14, which runs concurrently with the Telluride
Blues and Brews Festival, September 12—14, in Telluride, Colorado.
The camp, sponsored by Acoustic Guitar, offers classes, concerts,
and a nightly jam. Visit www.tellurideblues.com
for details.
Alejandro Escovedo,
Allison Moorer, Amy Rigby, Darrell Scott, Jim Lauderdale, Kathleen
Edwards, and Tom Russell, among others, will perform at the Americana
Music Conference, September 18—20, in Nashville, Tennessee.
The roots music shindig features panel discussions, nightly artist
showcases, and the Americana Awards show. Find out more at www.americanamusic.org.
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New
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Heartworn Highways,
director James Szalapski's previously hard-to-find 1975 documentary
about outlaw country music, has been reissued on DVD (Catfish Entertainment,
www.navarre.com).
The film tracks a posse of then relatively obscure Nashville outsiders,
including Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Steve Young,
and Steve Earle. The re-edited and remastered (for surround sound)
film features nearly a dozen previously unreleased performances,
including Clark's "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train," Van Zandt's
"Pancho and Lefty," Earle's "Mercenary Song," and John Hiatt's "One
for the One."
Get in touch with your
inner Bill Monroe via guitarist/singer Peter Rowan's new instructional
DVD and video, Lead Singing and Rhythm Guitar: Finding Your
Bluegrass Voice (Homespun, www.homespuntapes.com).
Rowan draws on such bluegrass staples as "Blue Moon of Kentucky,"
"Walls of Time," "Wayfaring Stranger," and "In the Pines" to teach
bass runs, simple solos, and vocal improvisation and phrasing. In
addition, the former member of the Blue Grass Boys and Old and in
the Way performs six favorite tunes and remi-nisces about touring
with Monroe.
Robert Johnson—who
may or may not be spinning in his grave over the news that Sean
"Puffy" Combs is slated to portray him in the HBO biopic Love
in Vain—is the subject of Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch's
new book, Robert Johnson: Lost and Found (University
of Illinois Press, www.press.uillinois.edu).
Brief and intense, like Johnson's 27-year life and 41-track recording
career, the scholarly biography emphasizes the Delta blues legend's
real life rather than the colossal mythology that arose after his
death in 1938.
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In
Memory
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Although she preferred
piano and harpsichord music, Rose Augustine left an indelible
mark on the guitar by helping develop the nylon string (out of fishing
filament) with her guitar-making husband, Albert Augustine, after
World War II. A close friend of classical guitar greats Andrés
Segovia and Julian Bream, Augustine, a Bronx native, became a champion
of younger artists and, in her later years, generously underwrote
concerts and commissioned new compositions for guitar. She died
on April 21 in Manhattan at age 93.
Country Music Hall of
Fame songwriter Felice Bryant, co-writer of the 1957 Everly
Brothers chart-toppers "Wake Up Little Susie" and "Bye Bye Love"
and the Buddy Holly hit "Raining in My Heart," died April 22 at
her home in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, at age 77. Nashville's pioneer
female composer, Felice and her husband Boudleaux Bryant (who died
in 1987) penned more than 800 songs, including the bluegrass anthem
"Rocky Top" and hits for Little Jimmy Dickens, Eddy Arnold, Jim
Reeves, George Jones, and Chet Atkins.
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Contests
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Veteran record producer
Arif Mardin (Norah Jones), rocker Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), industry
executive Bruce Lundvall (Capitol Records), and producer-performer
Nile Rodgers (Chic) will pick 68 winners in 13 categories for the
2003 International Songwriting Competition (www.songwritingcompetition.com).
Entries must be submitted by September 15.
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Cyber
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You can hear classical
guitar performances on the radio in more than 200 U.S. cities thanks
to Classical Guitar Alive! (www.guitaralive.org),
which has also expanded its reach across the pond by hooking up
with the EuroRadio Network. And if you aren't close enough to any
of those stations, from Allentown to Zagreb, to hear it on the radio,
you can log on to the website for MP3 editions of complete shows
on John Williams and Mostly Mozart as well as RealAudio excerpts
of interviews with and performances by Williams, Manuel Barrueco,
Pepe Romero, Badi Assad, and others.
You don't have to hightail
it all the way up to Orono, Maine, to enjoy the ancillary benefits
of the D A D G A D Coffeehouse. Surf over to the website
(www.dadgadcoffeehouse.org)
and glean singer-songwriter Kristina Olsen's tips on "Getting Ready
to Perform" and "Working the Room" (both originally appeared in
A.G.), read the results of the group's "Stage Presence Workshop,"
and learn all about "jamiquette" (jam etiquette).
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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, October
2003, No. 130.
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