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On September 25th, the acoustic music community lost a great luminary with the passing of guitarist and composer Al Petteway.

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Timonium United Methodist Church and Uptown Inc. will host their next folk music concert on Friday at The Cellar Stage.

As he drops his 35th album, ‘Game Changer,’ the Americana stalwart is learning to be a better musician

When playing chord-melody style guitar, sometimes you're not sure which chord to use when the melody isn’t a chord tone or moves too quickly. Here's the solution.

From the November/December 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY GREG RUBY The legacy of Django Reinhardt is well celebrated, but that’s not quite the case with a guitarist who was also deeply entrenched in the 1930s Paris jazz scene. On either his National tricone or his Selmer grande bouche, Oscar Alemán had an impeccable sense of swing and…

Here are some ideas from jazz great Eddie Lang for some new chord melody techniques and textures on guitar, applied to the verse of the old standard “After You’ve Gone.”

Prefunq combats Zoom fatigue with pre-meeting mini concerts to support artists hurt by pandemic April 7, 2021 at 8:07 am Sponsored by Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, rants, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and pop culture. (Prefunq Image) As COVID-19 sent everyone retreating to social isolation and virtual gatherings, it proved particularly difficult for the performers and musicians who rely on live events to make a living. The pandemic has also made u...