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On her new album, "My Guitar", Ingrid Riollot records 6 compositions written by the great guitarist Australian born John Williams (not the one of Star Wars). Those pieces are wonderful, and so well written for the guitar but, unfortunately, are not …
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Rochester, NY native Greg Townson, an accomplished musician with more than 23 years of experience under his belt releases his new album Off and Running! on Hi-Tide Recordings. It's a sparkling, throwback rock'n'roll album featuring classic songs like …
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Ludwik Konopko's releases his latest albom, RAIA. The album includes eight of Konopko's original guitar compositions, in addition to one cover, and one song. It incorporates several music styles, among others jazz, blues and flamenco. Konopko is …
Franco-American singer Marion Lenfant-Preus and Polish guitarist Alexander "Sobo" Sobocinski bring together 5 musicians and 6 languages for the June 25th release Histoires, a playful tongue-twisting spin on gypsy jazz, world music and …
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Bret Williams has released his third album, Seven Original Pieces for Solo Guitar. Classical Guitar Magazine describes Williams as, "Alluring...accomplished." And Tony Morris, of NPR's Classical Guitar Alive! program describes Williams' playing on …
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Classical guitarist, Ben Gateno, releases "A Time When Things Were New", a 19-track album of early twentieth century solo guitar pieces . This album is a collection of solo guitar music specifically from 1920s in the genres of classical, …
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Sony Music Masterworks released Not Our First Goat Rodeo, the long-awaited follow-up album to the GRAMMY Award-winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions, with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. NOT OUR FIRST GOAT …
Frameworks Records and An Tran recently announced the release of the debut album from Vietnamese classical guitar virtuoso, An Tran. Stay, My Beloved is an album featuring all Vietnamese guitar music. An Tran’s debut album, Stay, My Beloved, …
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Chris Titchner's new release, "Already Gone", combines catchy songwriting with a complete disregard of stylisitic homogeny. Folk, pop, New Orleans jazz...they all coexist on an album anchored by Titchner's consistent acoustic guitar work, …
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Fingerstyle guitarist, Adrian Bellue, was the artist in residence in the Furch Guitars booth on Thursday, January 16 at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Every two hours he performed some traffic-stopping, crowd-gathering fingerstyle …
Acoustic finger style guitar with... Full band? Horns? 11-minute songs? Don Ross singing? Yes! Earlier this year, fingerstyle guitarist Don Ross released an album with full band, titled "Don Ross Louder Than Usual". And it's really good. I will go …
Up and coming classical guitar/flute duo, Duo Alterity, released their first album this year - the self-titled Duo Alterity. The album is a warm, organic collection of contemporary compositions. The pieces are performed flawlessly by Allison …
Traction Control Vanya Merc (2019) In contradiction of the contents of this album, I will offer a review that is as pithy as possible: This album is fast. This album is electric. And this album is FUN! In all seriousness, Vanya Merc's new …
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Dan Arcamone just released his new jazz album, PSALM - a trio collaboration with Panagiotis Andreou on bass, Steve Pruitt on drums, and Arcamone taking care of guitar and compositions. The album is inspired by John Coltrane's iconic four-part …
