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March 30th, 2021 |
Modern women players finish up my 8-part series |
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November 13th, 2020 |
A 3-part series on the harp-guitar-playing patriarch and his Hawaiian musical family and friends includes dozens of harp-guitar players |
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September 13th, 2020 |
A second rare clip of Eddie playing his Gibson harp guitar |
Eddie Peabody in Hula Heaven: Plectrum Harp Guitar Excerpt |
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August 31st, 2020 |
Muriel hosts a Zoom concert with a Harp guitar finale |
Muriel Anderson, SB and a Virtual Water is Wide |
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May 8th, 2020 |
An important amateur Russian player |
From Russia with Love: Harp Guitars, Part 1 |
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April 20th, 2020 |
The story of Gene Mitchell |
Back to Gene’s Guitar Shop |
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April 3rd, 2020 |
My book on the infamous Vaudeville team is published. Matt Redman contributes an audio/visual appendix |
Vardon, Perry & Wilber Meet the Library of Congress |
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December 8th, 2019 |
A new compilation CD from our European friends |
Secrets of the Harp Guitar in Europe |
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November 8th, 2019 |
Bad Drew Baldwin guest authors the story of his first harp guitar |
The Tale of Drew Baldwin’s First Harp Guitar |
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November 3rd, 2019 |
New music from Harp Guitar Gathering performers |
New CDs from HGG17 |
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October 25th, 2019 |
At the 17th Harp Guitar Gathering, a special composition/performance and Tribute CD release to the late, great Hirokatsu Takai |
An Emotional HGG17 |
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April 8th, 2019 |
Several of my plucked string instruments are played authentically |
Matt Redman, Live at the Miner Museum |
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April 5th, 2019 |
A colleague from London who recreates period fretted instrument styles |
Matt Redman, Bringing the Past into the Present |
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March 17th, 2019 |
New photos of Hedges |
Michael Hedges Recap |
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January 28th, 2019 |
Harp guitarists at NAMM, 2019 |
Winter NAMM, 2019 |
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December 20th, 2018 |
We lose a dear friend |
Hiro Takai, Rest In Peace |
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December 1st, 2018 |
I play a fantasical lute reproduction with floating basses and trebles |
A Lute Out of a Nightmare |
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October 5th, 2018 |
A harp guitar "holder" who never played his basses? |
The Ballad of Serge Singer |
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September 3rd, 2018 |
The different players of this modern instrument |
A Short – Yet Surprisingly Complete – History of the Modern Archguitar |
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June 3rd, 2018 |
The last year's harp guitar releases |
Recent Harp Guitar CDs |
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April 27th, 2018 |
A new player and instrument I met in Genoa |
Massimo Traffano and the Brahms-Harp Guitar |
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April 6th, 2018 |
Special concert by Fabrizio Giudice during our trip to Genoa |
Genoa, 2017 Part 1 |
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February 8th, 2018 |
The delayed publication of my interview for Akustik Gitarre |
Akustik Gitarre Magazine Harp Guitar Time Capsule |
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January 28th, 2018 |
Harp guitarists at NAMM |
NAMM, 2018 |
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| March 24th, 2017 | Steampunk Stace writes about his c.1909 Stahl harp guitar |
Steampunk Stahl |
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| March 4th, 2017 | The sad passing of Tom Shinness |
Tom Shinness Harp Guitar Memories |
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| February 4th, 2017 | Catching up on 2 years of releases |
Recent Harp Guitar Albums |
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| January 28th, 2017 | Thomas Nielsen writes an article for us on Soffren Degen |
Danish Harp Guitar Discoveries |
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| January 22nd, 2017 | Harp Guitar players and builders at Winter NAMM, 2017 |
NAMM 2017 |
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| October 23rd, 2016 | I couldn't resist sharing this gag with Andy McKee and Stephen Bennett |
Time Capsule, Feb, 2007: Miner Museum Acquires Important Rare Specimens |
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| October 7th, 2016 | Harp guitar players at the first Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration |
Harp Guitars at SBAIC |
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| August 27th, 2016 | New instruments with supers |
Super-Treble Harp Guitar Videos |
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| July 1st, 2016 | The fascinating career and inventions of the little-known Hollywood character |
Herman the Hermit |
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March 18th, 2016 |
Gregg Miner and Fabrizio Giudice present the historical performance techniques of Pasquale Taraffo |
Secrets of Taraffo |
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March 9th, 2016 |
I fully revamp the site's Players page |
Harp Guitar Players Page Overhaul |
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October 17th, 2015 |
Recent players of historical instruments |
New Harp Guitar Players, Builders and Music, Part 2 |
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September 25th, 2015 |
Latest players, builders and CDs |
New Harp Guitar Players, Builders and Music, Part 1 |
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September 5th, 2015 |
New harp guitarist Brin Addison |
So who exactly IS Brin Addison and why is he suddenly Harp Guitarist of the Month? |
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July 6th, 2015 |
Performers at Yaouen's French harp guitar festival |
Harp Guitar Working Vacation: France Part 3 |
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July 3rd, 2015 |
Luthiers at Yaouen's French harp guitar festival |
Harp Guitar Working Vacation: France Part 2 |
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June 24th, 2015 |
My visit with Taraffo repertoire player Fabrizio Giudice to film our new documentary |
Harp Guitar Working Vacation: Genoa Part 3 |
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February 27th, 2015 |
Update on Joachim Csaikl's activities |
Busy in Austria |
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January 7th, 2015 |
In which I receive a "Major Award"... |
Awards Season |
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November 7th, 2014 |
New harp guitar CD releases |
Harp Guitar Bucket List |
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September 20th, 2014 |
Guitaripist Phil deGruy comes to town |
Phil deGruy, Ten Years After |
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September 12th, 2014 |
John Schneiderman checks out the Miner Museum |
Schneiderman Plays the Blues |
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August 25th, 2014 |
New videos from Austria |
Neue Video der Neuen Wiener Concert Schrammeln |
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| June 8th, 2014 | The story of my aborted commission of a new Doolin harp guitar |
The Harp Guitar That Never Was |
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June 1st, 2014 |
Don Ross and Calum Graham moonlight all too briefly on harp guitar |
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda |
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April 6th, 2014 |
Multi-instrumentalist Tom Shinness plays harp guitar with Keb' Mo' |
Harp Guitar Blues |
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March 4th, 2014 |
Part 2 of our Fred Carlson Humanitar adventure with Alex de Grassi |
Road Trip – Destination: Humanitar! |
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March 1st, 2014 |
The Humanitar, Part 1 |
It Lives! Unveiling the Humanitar |
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February 9th, 2014 |
Debut CD from Austria's Joachim Csaikl |
Austrian Pop/Rock Harp Guitar |
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| January 19th, 2014 | The "folk art" musical instruments of Evan Binkley |
Gujuleles and Other Creative Adventures |
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December 18th, 2013 |
1997: Michael Hedges tries out Lance McCollum's first harp guitar |
McCollum & Michael |
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December 12th, 2013 |
Stephen Bennett's Complete Nutcracker Ballet Score for Guitar Orchestra |
Not Your Parents’ Nutcracker |
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December 6th, 2013 |
The official release of Brad Hoyt's new all-star harp guitar-meets-jazz players CD |
Far Away From Everyday |
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November 30th, 2013 |
The loss of one of our own |
Dennis Cinelli: 195- to 2012 |
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| November 17th, 2013 | Party Number 1 |
HGG11: Saturday After Hours |
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| November 14th, 2013 | The Gathering's evening public concert |
HGG11: Saturday Evening Concert |
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| November 11th, 2013 | Player Feature #3 |
HGG11 Feature: The Artist Formerly Known As Andy McKee |
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| November 2nd, 2013 | Player Feature #2 |
HGG11 Feature: Pete Bradshaw |
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| October 30th, 2013 | Player Feature #1 |
HGG11 Feature: Dave Powell |
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| October 23rd, 2013 | Open Mic at the Gathering |
HGG11 Open Mic Sessions: Old and New Faces |
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| October 5th, 2013 | Warning: Sarcasm and Ranting |
Wikipedia Harp Guitar Notables of the Month |
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| September 24th, 2013 | Brad Hoyt's new CD |
Brad Hoyt: Ready for Another Close-up |
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| September 1st, 2013 | Latest news on players of Tim's TDEHG |
Checking in on Tim Donahue’s Plan for Electric Harp Guitar Global Domination |
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| August 4th, 2013 | A mini-harp guitar concert |
Artistry of the Harp Guitar |
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| July 14th, 2013 | Player Kinloch Nelson makes his own temporary HG |
Kinloch Builds a Harp Guitar… |
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| June 21st, 2013 | New harp guitar CDs |
Groove Jazz Harp Guitar and Other New Music |
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| June 8th, 2013 | Performers at the French festival |
Festival International de Harpe-Guitare, Part 2 |
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| June 6th, 2013 | More highlights from the ground-breaking French festival |
Festival International de Harpe-Guitare, Part 1 |
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| May 9th, 2013 | Karen Ashbrook and Paul Oorts get a great gig! |
Harp Guitar at the Kennedy Center |
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| March 21st, 2013 | Players and owners of all the known McCollum harp guitars, with the full Michael Hedges story revealed |
McCollum Harp Guitar Legacy, Part 2 |
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| March 16th, 2013 | My introduction to the topic |
McCollum’s Harp Guitar Legacy, Part 1 |
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August 8th, 2012 |
A group of kontragitarre-playing friends get together in Vienna |
Modern Schrammelgitarre Players are Gathering |
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August 3rd, 2012 |
Attending a John Schneiderman concert of Russian guitar music |
Russian Harp Guitar Sighting |
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July 15th, 2012 |
Featured performers booked for HGG10 |
Performers of The 10th Harp Guitar Gathering |
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June 29th, 2012 |
The music and activities of Viennese harp guitarist (kontragitarre player) Peter Havlicek |
Care Package from Vienna |
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| June 10th, 2012 | Harp guitarist Jeff Titus' new Carlson creation! |
Taproot |
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| May 14th, 2012 | Fabrizio Giudice plays Taraffo repertoire on his 9-string Genovese harp guitar |
Genoa, Part 3: Memories of Pasquale Taraffo |
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| March 14th, 2012 | The Corries, plus newer "combolin" players |
The Mysterious, Magical Combolins |
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| February 29th, 2012 | Latest activities of Tim and his students and followers |
Tim Donahue’s Growing Electric Harp Guitar World |
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| February 26th, 2012 | 3 harp guitarists - Andy McKee, Stephen Bennett and Antoine Dufour - play southern California |
Guitar Masters Southern Cal Tour |
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| February 21st, 2012 | Stephen Bennett and Korel Tunador play a local Holloway house concert |
Holloways to the Right and Left of Me |
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| January 28th, 2012 | An update on modern Schrammelgitarre players Joachim Csaikl, Emmerich Haimer and Harald Koll |
Modern Schrammel Players…1 Year Later |
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| January 18th, 2012 | Muriel Anderson and Scott Burwell play a local Holloway house concert |
Holloway House Concert |
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December 18th, 2011 |
Christian Saggese's receives his new modern harp guitar by Antonello Saccu |
New Saccu for Saggese |
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December 2nd, 2011 |
Keith Medley plans a live concert on Upstream, with guest Tom Shinness |
Medley, with Shinness, Live Tonight |
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| November 29th, 2011 | The first harp guitar video of Christian Saggese |
Seeing is Believing |
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| November 16th, 2011 | Limelight features the new HGM Christmas Present CD on their blog |
Harp Guitars in the Limelight |
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| November 15th, 2011 | A new Taraffo piece from Chris Saggese |
Taraffo’s Sonatina in A Major |
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| November 11th, 2011 | Non-HG activities of Carter Lancaster, Don Alder, & Ed Littlefield |
Moonlighting Harp Guitarists |
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| November 9th, 2011 | Announcing the soon-to-arrive new Christmas compilation |
Christmas is Coming… |
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| November 2nd, 2011 | Beppe Gambetta in a public performance tribute to Taraffo |
More Taraffo Tributes |
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| October 31st, 2011 | Revisiting our rather bizarre Halloween Gathering concert at HGG7 |
Ya Know Whut? Happy Halloween. |
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| October 29th, 2011 | HGG9 events included our first concurrent Players Workshops |
HGG9: Scheduled Events |
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| October 25th, 2011 | Concert performers at HGG9 |
HGG9: Concert Performers |
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| October 22nd, 2011 | Non-concert players and other attendees at HGG9 |
HGG9: Best Turnout Ever! |
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| October 18th, 2011 | First time appearance by Ed Littlefield |
HGG9 Featured Performer Ed Littlefield, Jr. |
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| October 16th, 2011 | Our special guest from the Canary Island and France, Jim Kline |
HGG9: James Kline, Our Special Featured Guest |
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| October 15th, 2011 | Our traditional Gathering finale gets a surprise tweak |
The Water is Wide in C# |
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| October 6th, 2011 | Radio interview featured hosts Stephen Bennett and John Thomas |
Harp Guitar Gathering on NPR |
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| September 25th, 2011 | Presenting new harp guitar player Christian Saggese |
The Second Coming of Taraffo |
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| September 16th, 2011 | Recent arch-guitarist Jon Mendle |
Jon Mendle, Archguitar Prodigy |
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| September 14th, 2011 | Raphaella Smits performs at the event on 8-string guitar |
La Guitarra Arpa California |
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| September 9th, 2011 | Antonine Dufour makes the cover of Canada's music magazine with his Duane Noble HG |
A Noble Image, Indeed |
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| September 6th, 2011 | HGG9 workshops announced |
HGG9 Harp Guitar Instruction Workshops |
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| August 28th, 2011 | Unveiling the new CD "Further Beyond Six Strings" |
and Furthermore… |
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| August 20th, 2011 | Harp Guitar performers at Healdsburg |
Healdsburg, Part 2 |
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| August 16th, 2011 | Tony McManus plays the new Manzer harp gutiar |
Healdsburg Trip, Part 1 |
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| August 6th, 2011 | Keith Medley receives some increasing P.R. |
Keith Medley, Part 2 |
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| July 30th, 2011 | Announcing the upcoming CD |
Further Beyond… |
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| July 21st, 2011 | Muriel Anderson is interviewed in this issue |
Fretboard Journal #22 |
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| July 16th, 2011 | A few videos from HGG8 are posted |
Harp Guitar Gathering 8 Videos |
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| June 18th, 2011 | A last-minute performance by Frank Doucette and I |
And a Grand Time Was Had by Few |
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| June 5th, 2011 | New videos from Philippe Fouquet and Paolo Giordano |
Videos and Other News |
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| May 8th, 2011 | 4 top Candyrat artists visit me |
Rat Infestation at the Miner Museum |
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| May 4th, 2011 | Multi-instrumentalist Abaji from France visits the museum |
Lock the Instrument Cases – Abaji’s in Town! |
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| March 31st, 2011 | A special concert with Philippe Fouquet and John Doan |
Modern Harp Guitar Music Alive and Well in France |
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| March 28th, 2011 | Recent players of reproduction 8-string harp guitars include Jan Tuláček, Karel Fleischinger, Fabrizio Ferraro and Adam Marec, and Petra Polackova |
Attack of the 8-string Riess Copies |
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| March 17th, 2011 | Player Henrik Andersen designed and commissioned a wild new Manzer harp guitar |
The Medusa is in da house!! |
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| March 16th, 2011 | New harp guitarist Kyle Reeder |
Wallace & Reeder |
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| March 10th, 2011 | New Italian harp guitarist Francesco Faldani |
Harp Guitar Southpaws |
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| March 4th, 2011 | Dave Powell records his new 12-strings-on-the-neck harp guitar |
The Leo Kottke of the Harp Guitar |
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| March 1st, 2011 | Brad Hoyt's new solo composition on his unique Sedgwick instrument |
The Antoine Dufour of the Arpa Viola Caipira |
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| February 23rd, 2011 | New Beardsell owner Martin Larose, and a "demo" by Henry Kaiser |
Beardsell Sightings |
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| February 22nd, 2011 | The discovery of builder/player Keith Medley |
Harp Guitar Medley |
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| February 18th, 2011 | Stephen Bennett's instructional DVDs are released - a first |
You Asked For It, You Got It! |
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| February 10th, 2011 | Dan Pease and Bettie Swarts and friends |
Hogan’s Goat |
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| February 8th, 2011 | Modern music players of "Schrammelgitarres" (Viennese harp guitars) include Emmerich Haimer, Joachim Csaikl, and Harald Koll |
Schrammels in the Modern World |
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| February 3rd, 2011 | The popular Echoes radio show highlights harp guitar CDs |
Harp Guitar Echoes |
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| January 31st, 2011 | A mini-convention sometimes occurs when Stephen Bennett comes to town |
Southern Cal Mini-Gathering |
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| January 20th, 2011 | Newly discovered CDs include recent players John McHugh, Jonathan Ebanks, James Schaller, and Antonio Koudele |
Updated Harpguitars.net Music page |
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| January 14th, 2011 | Local concert by Stephen Bennett |
11:59 and Blog’s Well |
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| January 14th, 2011 | Holloway harp guitars are demo'd at NAMM |
NAMM Day 1 |
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| January 6th, 2011 | Andy Wahlberg's new instrumental piece |
Slumgullion |
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| December 30th, 2010 | New CD by Russian music duo Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman |
Russian Harp Guitars |
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| December 23rd, 2010 | The story of my first major airplay |
Best Christmas Eve’s Eve Ever |
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| December 22nd, 2010 | Recent Holloway customers include my brother Mark, Michael Lohr in Germany, and Bob Visintainer |
Happy Holiday Holloway Harpers |
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| December 20th, 2010 | All the players onstage for the Gathering finale in Indiana |
HGG8: The Finale |
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| December 16th, 2010 | The sub-bass muting workshop at HGG8 |
HGG8: Other Presentations |
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| December 14th, 2010 | Issues of string gauges for the Hedges piece |
Stringing for Hedges |
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| December 13th, 2010 | Casual players at the Gathering |
HGG8: Players, Ad Infinitum |
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| December 10th, 2010 | Spain's harp guitarist Blas Sanchez |
A Note from Blas Sánchez |
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| December 7th, 2010 | Concert performers at HGG8 |
HGG8: The Concert Performers |
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| November 30th, 2010 | Smaro Gregoriadou plays George Kertsopoulos' pneumatic foot pedal guitar |
Facebook Finds |
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| November 26th, 2010 | An original interview from the release of "A Christmas Collection" |
Blast from the Past |
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| November 23rd, 2010 | 10-string classical harp guitarist Brian Torosian at HGG8 |
HGG8 Featured Performer Brian Torosian |
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| November 22nd, 2010 | Carter Lancaster's CD wins at Canada's Hamilton Music Awards |
Carter Lancaster, Canadian Winner |
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| November 19th, 2010 | Muriel Anderson at HGG8 |
HGG8 Featured Performer: Muriel Anderson |
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| November 18th, 2010 | First time in the States for HGG8 featured guest performer Philippe Fouquet |
HGG8: Our Special Featured Guest |
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| November 16th, 2010 | Stephen Bennett and Gathering host Brad Hoyt perform on morning news TV |
T.V. or Not T.V…THAT is the question |
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| October 29th, 2010 | Stephen Bennett's new CD is released |
Classic Rock Harp Guitar! |
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| October 26th, 2010 | New harp guitar duo CD by Muriel Anderson and John Doan |
Harp Guitars Under the Stars |
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| October 20th, 2010 | Videos by Jason Carter and others |
Recent Videos |
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| October 14th, 2010 | Pierre Bensusan still is not going to play harp guitar... |
Just don’t get your hopes up… |
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| October 10th, 2010 | Edgar Cruz adds harp guitar to his lineup |
Everybody wants to get into the act… |
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| October 5th, 2010 | Multi-instrumentalist Dick Dilloff with some unusual harp-instruments |
Tenor, Dick and Harry |
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| September 27th, 2010 | New Sedgwick HG player Simon Wahl |
Stephen & Simon |
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| September 22nd, 2010 | Southern Cal party with a bunch of harp guitarists showing up |
Party at Kathy’s (BYOHG) |
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| September 20th, 2010 | Announcing the upcoming new CD of rock music on harp guitar |
Harp Guitars Rock! |
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