Posted April 1, 2024 at 1:04 am | No comments
Muriel Anderson’s Sailing Dreams, based on Muriel’s sailing adventures with her partner Bryan Allen, they sailed from Long Island to Maine’s Penobscot Bay, documenting their travels in song, video and photography. But wait – there’s also in a board game based on her journey! (board game separate!). Named by Guitar Player magazine as one of the “50 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” in July 2021 and last month as one of “The Top 10 Female Guitarists of all Time”
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Posted March 28, 2024 at 11:25 pm | No comments
Jillian Matundan’s first full-length album bursts forward with an energy and honesty rooted in navigating life’s highs and lows. Singing to the Moon was primarily written during the COVID pandemic, which forced all of us to fully stop for the first time in our lives. Jillian was just returning to writing and performing her own music —after 15 years of putting it on the shelf—and found herself in the same place as everyone else on the planet, with space and time to face herself.
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Posted March 22, 2024 at 11:34 am | No comments
Legendary folk singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young announces the first digital re-release single “Fire on the Water,” off his 1982 solo album The Perfect Stranger. “Fire On The Water” features an epic collaboration with Michael McDonald (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan).
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Posted March 18, 2024 at 12:11 pm | No comments
And what’s even more impressive is Brian Tarquin’s altruism, given his support and contributions to veterans’ and other causes, and the music projects he’s driven to completion with his fellow collaborators, who include some of the world’s first flight musicians: Jean Luc Ponty, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford (Miles Davis), Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Dean Brown (David Sanborn), Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Chris Poland (Megadeth), John Tropea (Billy Cobham), Steve Kindler (Jeff Beck), Carl Verheyen (Supertramp) and Larry McCray (John Mayall), the late Phil Naro, and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
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Posted February 21, 2024 at 2:10 am | 4 comments
When country music artist Vince Gill was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007, one only had to look back on a few of his accomplishments to recognize his impact on the musical style.
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Posted February 7, 2024 at 12:23 pm | No comments
The String Revolution’s Janet Robin thanked the Recording Academy for their support in winning the Grammy for Best Arrangement (Instrumental or A cappella) of their collaboration of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” with guitar superstar Tommy Emmanuel.
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Posted February 6, 2024 at 2:28 pm | No comments
Brian Tarquin has won 3 Emmy’s for “Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series” and has been nominated for an Emmy 6 times. In 2022 & 2023 the Josie Music Awards nominated Tarquin for “Musician of the Year (Guitar)” and “Music Producer of the Year.”
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Posted January 26, 2024 at 7:39 am | No comments
Press Release Source: VQPR Legendary drummer, Marky Ramone (Ramones, Grammy Winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), announces a 10-date California tour with his band,Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg”, as part of his 2024 World Tour. “As the song says, we’ll be out here having fun, in the warm California sun and celebrating Punk Rock music. See […]
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Posted January 22, 2024 at 10:47 pm | No comments
For many in the Washington, D.C. area, Rebecca Berlin, seems to have appeared on the singer-songwriter scene from out of nowhere. But, her journey has taken a few twists and turns, and a long hiatus along the way. She released a studio album a decade ago, focused on the world of music syncing, and was on the move performing her original songs; all systems “go”. Life had its challenges that needed tending to and her artistic ambitions were held in abeyance until recently.
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Posted January 14, 2024 at 3:20 pm | No comments
Recently, Gruene Guitars shipped Guitar International one of its newer dreadnaughts for review, a prototype D-18 model named a “Saratoga”. Upon arrival I let it acclimate to its new surroundings, after its flight from San Antonio, Texas, the headquarters of the guitar company.
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