By: Debra Devi This was the year Montana’s nonprofit Crown Guitar Festival & Workshop truly delivered on the promise it has had since it was a gleam in founder David Feffer’s eyes, as cross-genre collaborations between the world’s greatest guitar players materialized in dramatic fashion. Impromptu musical moments that could happen “only at the Crown” […]
On Sunday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m., Martin Taylor, Frank Vignola, along with up and coming artist Vinny Raniolo, will be serving their special blend of swing, the blues, and innovative takes on classical tunes at St. Joe’s Visual and Performing Arts Department, NYC.
This week Cleveland will host Les Paul – The Tour with free local entertainment each day, an exclusive look inside the world of Les Paul and the opportunity to interact with the state-of-the-art technology produced aboard the mobile touring vehicle for all to enjoy. The tour and experience is free as is all of the local entertainment and bands scheduled to perform. It’s all part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Les Paul.
Forty-two years after Frank Zappa sang about “moving to Montana soon,” his son Dweezil has found a creative home at Crown Guitar Workshop & Festival in Bigfork, which takes place this year from August 30 to September 6.
What happens when a young man from Powell, Missouri, (population 15) named Ben Wiseman gets up enough courage to walk into Brumley Music Company unexpectedly to meet one of the biggest names in Gospel Music, Bob Brumley?
With its panoramic view of the Smoky Mountains, the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee was a magical spot for multi-instrumentalist, John McCutcheon, to present his songwriting camp that immersed a group of songwriters deep into the heart of lyrics, melody and soul.
TUNE IN TO WATCH!! – Tonight on the hit series “Counting Cars” on The History Channel Danny (The Count) is asked to create a commemorative bike that honors the music legend Les Paul.
Next up at the Les Paul 100th Birthday celebration was Little Kids Rock, a student band from a music education program sponsored by the Les Paul Foundation. During the changeover, video interviews with Sammy Hagar, BB King and other artists were screened, attesting to Paul’s incredibly wide-ranging influence.
“I want a sound that has never been heard before,” Les Paul famously remarked, and during his life he really delivered–as a creative guitarist who came up with fresh licks, chord sequences and fretting techniques that blew away his peers, and as the pioneering developer of the solid-body electric guitar and many recording innovations, including multi-tracking, tape delay, phasing and reverb.
With attendance hitting 10,000 at GearFest 2015, there was a long line of folks trying to get in to see Jeff “Skunk” Baxter present his seminar on music and to hear the Doobie brother play.
