NEWS - EVENTS - NEW RELEASES - IN MEMORY - CYBER NOTES
Townsend Plant of Albany, New York, is the winner of the Music Teachers National Association's Gibson Collegiate Artist Guitar Competition.
After being voted the "Best Guitar Store" by New York magazine, Mandolin Brothers was honored with the designation of June 3 as "Mandolin Brothers Day" in the borough of Staten Island.
Pierre Bensusan and Peter Finger will be among the performers at the First International Guitar Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, October 25-30. For information, fax 995-32-001018, email league@orioni.com.ge, or visit www.geocities.com/ Vienna/Strasse/4131/.
Ricky Skaggs and Rhonda Vincent will host the awards show at the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass convention, trade show, and festival to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, October 19-25. To register, call (888) GET-IBMA.
Jim Messina, formerly of Loggins and Messina, Poco, and Buffalo Springfield, will conduct a Songwriters' Performance Workshop at the Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 27-November 1. For information, contact the Sea Pines Resort, (800) 732-7463.
The Celtic Colours Festival will take place October 9-17 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Performers will include Altan, Alasdair Fraser and Tony McManus, Dave MacIsaac, J.P. Cormier, Martin Carthy, and many more. For information, contact the festival at (902) 562-6700 or visit www. celtic-colours.com.
English songbird Kate Rusby's much-lauded solo debut, Hourglass, is available in the U.S. for the first time, issued by Compass Records, (615) 320-7672.
Andres Segovia's 23 Canci—nes Populares (debuted recently on disc by Eliot Fisk) and Preludios and Estudios have been published by Theodore Presser Co., 1 Presser Pl., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 525-3636.
Asleep at the Wheel has signed with DreamWorks Records to record the second volume of its All-Star Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills. Guest artists will include Merle Haggard, the Manhattan Transfer, Lyle Lovett, and Shawn Colvin.
Singer-songwriter Kevin Welch's first two recordings, Kevin Welch and Western Beat (both originally released by Warner Bros.), have been reissued by his own Dead Reckoning Records.
The fourth edition of the Blue Book of Guitars (with over 900 pages and nearly 1,500 photos) is available from Blue Book Publications, (800) 877-4867; www.bluebookinc.com.
Blues fans will enjoy two of Columbia Legacy's recent CD releases: Blind Willie Johnson, Dark Was the Night, and the collection Slide Guitar: The Streamline Special.
AcuTab Publications has published Tim Stafford: AcuTab Transcriptions, Vol. 1, a book of 23 of Tim Stafford's recorded solos, including all of his work with Blue Highway and Alison Krauss and Union Station. For more information, call (540) 776-6822.
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide, edited by Neal Walters, is a stunningly comprehensive guide to recorded folk music of all kinds. For information, contact Visible Ink Press, (800) 776-6265; www.gale.com.
Irving Sloane, who inspired the guitar-making renaissance of the 1970s with his book Classic Guitar Construction, the first how-to lutherie book, died on June 21 at the age of 73. In addition to publishing three more books, Guitar Repair, Steel-String Guitar Construction, and Making Musical Instruments, Sloane also designed innovative new classical guitar tuning machines and woodworking tools.
National Reso-Phonic Guitars has a new Web site at www. nationalguitars.com that includes a comprehensive history and a chance to win a steel-body, single-resonator Delphi guitar.
The King Pup Radio Hour, hosted by Phil and Gaye Johnson and featuring old-time country and bluegrass, is online at www.radioyur.com.
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