From Acoustic Guitar Magazine, June 1999, No. 78

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News RETURN TO TOP	Crossroads, the trade publication devoted to acoustic, folk, roots, and world music, is soliciting membership to help in its transition to a monthly publication. For information, or to join, call (520) 881-5277 or visit www.xrm.com. On June 24, Christie's auction house in New York will auction off 100 of Eric Clapton's favorite guitars, including a Martin 000-28 (valued at £10,000) used on Slowhand and a 1956 sunburst Fender Stratocaster known as "Brownie" (expected to sell for £100,000) used on the original recording of "Layla." The proceeds will benefit a drug rehabilitation center Clapton has set up on the Caribbean island of Antigua. For more information, go to www.christies.com. Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame at a ceremony held March 16 at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Events RETURN TO TOP	The Live Oak Music Festival takes place at Live Oak Camp, near Santa Barbara, California, June 18-20. Performers at this year's festival include Altan, the Freight Hoppers, the Bad Livers, and Utah Phillips. For information, call (805) 781-3169 or visit www.kcbx.org/liveoak. The San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be held June 12-13 at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco, California. For information, call (510) 287-9095. Zoukfest, a gathering of players, builders, students, and aficionados of the Irish bouzouki and related instruments, will be held in Weston, Missouri, June 13-19. For more information, call Roger Landes at (888) 610-1101, email roger@celticmusic.com, or visit www.celticmusic.com/zoukfest. The Master Musicians Festival will take place in Somerset, Kentucky, July 15-17. Performers include the Laura Love Band, Dan Crary, Maura O'Connell, and Vassar Clements. For information, call (888) 386-5859.
New Releases RETURN TO TOP	Guitar Songs is a new instructional CD-ROM for Mac or Windows that teaches arrangements of 21 familiar songs in a variety of styles. It includes standard notation and tab and an animated fretboard. For information, contact eMedia at (206) 329-5657 or visit www.emedia.org. Proceeds from the sale of Almo Sounds' Gram Parsons tribute album, Return of the Grievous Angel, will be donated to the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's Campaign for a Landmine Free World. The recording includes cuts by the Pretenders with Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams and David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Steve Earle, and many others. Mel Bay has released A.G. contributor Glenn Weiser's new book, The Celtic Encyclopedia: Fingerstyle Guitar Edition. The book contains fingerstyle arrangements of more than 100 dance tunes, slow airs, harp pieces, and O'Carolan tunes. For more information, visit www.celticguitarmusic.com. The Soundwood Guide to the Guitar is a new publication that features luthiers striving to conserve endangered woods. For information, call (415) 695-1956 or email soundwood@igc.org. Vanguard Records has released two more titles in their Vanguard Sessions Series: psychedelic acoustic guitarist Sandy Bull's Re-inventions: Best of the Vanguard Years, and folk queen Odetta's Best of the Vanguard Years. Sugar Hill Records has reissued four albums, originally recorded in the '80s by influential bluegrass artist Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, on two CDs, The Original Band and Once and for Always/The News Is Out. For information, call (919) 489-4340 or visit www.sugarhillrecords.com.
Cyber Notes RETURN TO TOP	Fans of Martin Taylor can find out everything they want to know about the English jazz guitar virtuoso at www.martintaylor.com. Play Guitar is a new online beginning guitar method located at www.members.tripod.com/iplayguitar.

 

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