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Guitarists Jim Hurst,
Orrin Star, and Rickey Wasson; mandolinists Mike Compton and Danny
Roberts; and banjo pickers J.D. Crowe and Lynn Morris are just a
few of the performers offering seminars and small class instruction
at the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend (www.roanokebluegrass.com),
November 14—16, in Roanoke, Virginia. Bass and fiddle classes
will also be offered.
Teen phenom Julian
Lage and jazz/ world fusion experimentalists Bill Frisell
and Marc Ribot provide the guitar highlights of the San
Francisco Jazz Festival, October 23—November 9. Lage opens
the October 24 "New Sensation" concert, while Frisell leads his
Intercontinentals (Sidiki Camara, Vinicius Cantuária, Christos
Govetas, Greg Leisz, and Jenny Scheinman) and Ribot fronts his Cubanos
Postizos on November 7. The full schedule with venue and ticket
information is at www.sfjazz.com.
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Hip-O Records (www.hip-o.com),
in partnership with Reelin' In the Years Productions, has released
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962—1966,
a two-DVD set of 36 previously unissued live performances by Muddy
Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Howlin'
Wolf, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, and others, filmed in a German
TV studio during breaks in the annual package concert tours that
barnstormed Europe every fall in the early '60s. Sixteen audio highlights
are gathered on a separate CD.
CD Sheet Music (www.cdsheetmusic.com),
which publishes public domain sheet music on CD-ROM, has just added
two volumes of solo classical guitar music to its catalog.
Classical Guitar Music, Vol. 1 features compositions by Bach,
Giuliani, Paganini, and Sor; Vol. 2 includes the works of Aguado,
Diabelli, Molino, Tárrega, and others.
This Old Guitar
(Voyageur Press, www.voyageurpress.com)
makes good on its subtitle—Making Music and Memories from
Country to Jazz, Blues to Rock—with 150 striking, amusing,
and nostalgic photographs of guitars, guitarists, concert posters,
sheet music, album covers, and advertisements, all tucked into such
essays as "The Evolution of a Gearhead," "The Twang Heard 'Round
the World," "Romantic Riffs," and "The Gnarly Guitar Hall of Fame."
Peter Huttlinger, national
fingerstyle champion, recording artist, and guitarist with the late
John Denver, has put together two new instructional videos, A
Guitarist's Guide to Better Practicing and Arrangements
for Solo Acoustic Guitar (Homespun, www.homespuntapes.com).
The former guides you step-by-step toward mastering "The Monaghan
Jig" and the latter features arrangements of the Beatles' "And I
Love Her" and Steely Dan's "Josie" as well as an original flatpicking
tune in D A D G A D.
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In
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Brazilian guitarist
and composer Paulinho Nogueira died of a heart attack in
S‹o Paulo on August 2. He was 73. Credited with inventing the craviola,
inspired by Brazilian folk instruments, and influencing the rise
of bossa nova, Nogueira made some two dozen recordings and penned
such hits as "Menino, Desce Dai," "Menina," and the classical-inspired
instrumental mainstay "Bachianinha #1."
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If you surf on over
to the Bridge Guitar Reviews Web page (www.xs4all.nl/~guitars),
you can easily click your way to Henk te Veldhuis' updated, no-frills,
links-laden Acoustic Connections and Acoustic Spirit Portal
pages, listing scores of guitar and accessory makers, record labels,
magazines, acoustic guitarists, and more.
Northern California
roots music fans may fondly remember KFAT radio, the funky
Gilroy station that broadcast a free-form format of country, blues,
old-time, bluegrass, Hawaiian, and other music (as well as comedy)
from 1975 to 1983. Now it's back for audiences worldwide to enjoy,
streaming on the Internet (www.kfat.com)
and billing itself as "the only dead radio station you can listen
to on your computer."
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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, November
2003, No. 131.
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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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