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Sessions at West 54th is a new public TV show featuring interviews and performances by artists such as Shawn Colvin, Rickie Lee Jones, Beck, Gillian Welch, Bill Frisell, and Jerry Douglas. Check out the Web site at www.sessionsatwest54th.com for a schedule of upcoming shows.
Legendary guitarists James Burton, Scotty Moore, Duane Eddy, and Chet Atkins were recently inducted into Hollywood's Rockwalk at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.
Judicael Perroy of France won the 1997 Guitar Foundation of America International Competition held in La Jolla, California, in October. Perroy's award included $5,000 and a concert tour. Runner-up Franco Platino of Italy won $1,500 and a Naxos recording contract.
Toronto-based luthier, musician, and novelist William "Grit" Laskin received the 1997 Saidye Bronfman Award. Established in 1977, the $20,000 award honors individual craftspersons in Canada.
Butch Baldassari and Walter Carter are putting together a book chronicling the golden age of the mandolin orchestra in America. Anyone with relevant photos, sheet music, catalogues, or other information should phone Butch Baldassari at (615) 292-0824 or Email baldasjb@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu.
The International Bluegrass Music Awards were held in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 16. Winners included Tony Rice for Guitar Player of the Year, "High Lonesome Sound" by Vince Gill with Alison Krauss and Union Station (transcribed in the Feb. '97 issue and included on Southbound, the second volume of AG on CD) for Song of the Year, True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe for Album of the Year, Rob Ickes for Dobro Player of the Year, and the Del McCoury Band for Entertainer of the Year.
Punk ukulele players might want to disrupt the Riot Ukes site: www.speakeasy.org/~marks/ riot/. More traditional Hawaiian music fans should add Susan J.'s Hawaiian Music Page, www.interpac.net/~nahenahe /susanmusic/current.html, to their surfing schedules.
Teacher Net is an online resource for classical and flamenco teaching professionals, an international database of teachers that students can access at www.guitarsalon.com.
Windham Hill Records and Taylor Guitars have collaborated on Taylor Guitar: Sounds of Wood and Steel, a new CD featuring instrumentals by Vince Gill, Michael Hedges, Kathy Mattea, and Will Ackerman, among others.
Guitar Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog was recently issued by the Greenwood Publishing Group, (203) 226-3571. Compiled by Janna MacAuslan and Kristan Aspen, the book features music listings and biographies of hundreds of composers and should be useful for guitarists searching for new repertoire.
Neil A. Kjos ([800] 797-KJOS) released a new book designed for teachers and students interested in group guitar instruction entitled The Art of Guitar: Beginning Class Method. The book was written by Grant Gustafson, director of a full-time guitar program at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.
Harmonia Mundi has released Paul O'Dette's award-winning recordings of the complete lute works of John Dowland in a five-CD box set. It includes more than 100 pieces for solo lute and comes with an illustrated 152-page booklet.
Guitarists with an interest in world music and complex rhythms will want to pick up A Rhythmic Vocabulary, by Alan Dworsky and Betsy Sansby, released by Dancing Hands Music, (612) 933-0781. The book, which comes with a CD and is designed for non-drummers, contains hundreds of examples of African and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
The International Guitar Competition Karl Scheit will be held in Vienna, Austria, September 14&endash;19, 1998. The jury will include Eliot Fisk and Oscar Ghiglia, and the first-prize winner will receive a concert guitar made by Austrian luthier Bernd Holzgruber. For information, contact Hochshule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien, Johanessgasse 8, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; (43-1) 51596-264.
Tommy Comeaux was killed in a bicycle accident on November 8, 1987. Comeaux, who played bass, mandolin, and guitar with Beausoleil, the Basin Brothers, and Coteau, was one of the few lead acoustic guitarists in Cajun music. Some of his best playing can be heard on the recent CD by Al Berard and the Basin Brothers called Dans la Louisiane (Rounder).
A memorial grove has been established for singer John Denver, who was killed in a plane crash near Monterey, California, on October 14th. Donations can be sent to: John Denver Memorial Grove, The National Arbor Day Foundation, Nebraska City, NE 68410.
Join Acoustic Guitar at the Folk Alliance Tenth Anniversary Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, February 12&endash;15. This meeting of the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance is a key event for folk musicians and music industry professionals, as well as arts administrators and educators. For further information, visit www. hidwater.com/folkalliance/, phone (202) 835-3655, fax (202) 835-3656, Email fa@folk.org, or write to Folk Alliance, 1001 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 501, Washington, DC 20036.
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