Flamenco Legend, Paco de Lucia dies at age 66
The inspirational flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia has died today in Cancun, Mexico aged 66. Said to be holidaying with his family, he suffered a heart attack and died before he reached the hospital....
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Stage Presence
It’s difficult to know how we come across on stage or what we look like, until we watch our concert in its entirety, not just the pieces we played, but how we walked on...
Stage Etiquette
As performers, we spend a lifetime practicing and improving our playing, which is the most important, without that we wouldn’t even get a chance to walk on stage. However, rarely do we learn the...
UPDATE: Almost great news about taking your guitar aboard a plane!
UPDATE February 18 2014 Well, sometimes some things are too good to be true. I was alerted to this article by Joan Lowy which contradicts the information I had been told. To follow up...
Distributing Your Albums
So, you have accomplished the huge task of recording and manufacturing your CD. Congratulations! Next step is to distribute them as much as possible. Gone are the days of Tower Records and Virgin Records,...
Releasing a CD: The To-do’s
It seems that lately, more and more guitarists are taking on the task of self-producing their CD’s. Even some of guitar’s greats have abandoned the big labels and created their own. There are advantages...
The Behind the Scenes of Video Making
As guitarists and musicians in general, we soon find ourselves having to do things that are the farthest away from practicing our instruments. One of the things on top of that list is recording...
The changing world of music instruction, Skype Lessons.
I have recently taken the plunge into giving Skype lessons, and the results have been surprising. When I was starting out as a guitarist my education was completely dependent on who was available to...
The Afghan Guitar Project
New York-based classical guitarist Colin Davin will be traveling to Kabul in June for his second visit this year to teach at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Among the many needs at the...
First annual Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival
The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the first annual Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival to take place August 15-17, 2013, at the Wilson Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Developed as a means to showcase talented...
