Category: Musical Travels

Woodstock Fingerstyle Guitar Festival 2026

Sep 3, 2026

The late great Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase run by Baker Rorick has been permanently...

Jul 6, 2026

Greetings, Musicians, Scholars, Collectors and Nerds! Once again, I managed to capture enough...

Jun 27, 2025

This special blog does not include any harp guitars, but instead, plenty of harp. Having only...

Jun 19, 2025

Greetings, all! In early June, I found myself once again back among friends in the American...

Jun 18, 2024

In Part 3, I told a personal story of tracking down a French collector’s instruments at the...

Jun 10, 2024

Last week I shared some of the photos I took in the MIM galleries during our American Musical...

Jun 2, 2024

Greetings, friends: I started my 2024 AMIS Trip Report with a write-up on the people there, along...

May 26, 2024

Greetings, Nerds, Scholars and Musical Instrument Obsessives! This is the first in a series of...

Oct 15, 2020

Today – October 15 2020 – we learned that our dear friend Franco Ghisalberti passed away. He was...

Oct 4, 2019

Two weeks ago, I took an impromptu drive to Phoenix for the last weekend of their The Electric...