By: Staff
M2M Public Relations informed that Legacy Learning Systems, one of the world’s premier multimedia instructional course and technology companies, announced the Learn & Master Guitar Live artist in residence for April 10, 2012 (7pm CST) as guitarist and entertainer Thom Bresh, son of the great Merle Travis. Bresh, a 2001 Inductee to the Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame and recipient of the 2007 President’s Award at the Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame, was raised in the middle of guitar royalty, Roy Lanham, Thumbs Carlisle, Jimmy Bryant, Curly Chalker, Joe Maphis and Leo Fender. Members of the elite guitar court who later became his close friends included Chet Atkins, Ernie Ball, James Burton, Scotty Moore, Jerry Reed, Les Paul and others. He has been nominated for both Grammy and Academy Awards and has hosted his own television program.
Bresh’s father, Merle Travis was one of the most influential American guitarists of the 20th Century. With the heritage, experience and upbringing Bresh received, he is a guitarist who always deserves to be heard. Bresh is known for laying into his father’s thumbpickin’ classics and leaving his audiences always wanting for more. As Buster B. Jones once said, “Bresh is a drop-top version of his daddy with a souped up engine and a whole lot more chrome.” You can view some impressive Bresh entertainment here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mo1RDVcD8w
The Learn & Master Guitar Live on Ustream allows students or guitar enthusiasts to meet Steve Krenz, the host of the session and author of Learn & Masters Guitar while experiencing the music of his guest, Thom Bresh and participate in live chats. Guests also have a chance to win some exciting giveaways. Interested fans can watch the broadcast live via Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/gibson-learn-and-master-live-lessons .
Every Tuesday, Krenz broadcasts live from Music City to a growing audience of guitar fanatics, music students and people completely new to the guitar. The hour long Learn & Master Guitar Live series is themed so each one is completely different. The series is a place where students and guests can interact with each other, ask questions of Krenz or his guest artist via Twitter or Facebook and occasionally have a the chance to win an exclusive guitar.
The series is brought to you by Legacy Learning Systems based in Nashville, Tennessee and recently broke all records with over 10,000 views for a single series.
About Legacy Learning Systems: Legacy Learning Systems is known for producing instructional multimedia training courses and apps with a mission to bring personal dreams and talents within reach while maintaining a fun and exciting learning experience based on personal interaction, new technologies, steadfast techniques and engaging instructors. In addition to Guitar Apprentice, Legacy Learning Systems also produces the popular Gibson Learn & Master Guitar Lessons series as well as Learn & Master Photography and others. For more information go to www.learnandmaster.com
