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From the May/June 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERS In the summer of 1959, an 18-year-old singer in a bright dress strode onto the stage at the first Newport Folk Festival—a surprise guest of headliner Bob Gibson. Strumming a 12-string, Gibson kicked off the spiritual “Virgin Mary Had One Son,” and she added a crystalline high…
“I don’t ever say that I chose to get into guitar making,” says archtop guitar maker Maegen Wells. “I felt like I was surrendering to a mission.”
– The arts are back in-person at Cuesta College. Both the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center (CPAC) and the Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery announce the return of in-person concerts, events, and exhibitions for the fall semester.
WASHINGTON - Democrat Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have sent a list of names to the White House to consider for U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois: former Madison County chief judge Ann Callis, State Sen. Rachelle Crowe (D-Maryville) and Williamson County State's Attorney Brandon Zanotti.
McGlynn EAST ST. LOUIS – Great Clips salon owners who voluntarily dismissed a lockdown suit in Colorado and filed it in Madison County should have kept it in Colorado, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled on May 27. He transferred a complaint of Holtzman Enterprises, owner of about 50 salons in Colorado and Missouri, proposing a class action against Continental Casualty. McGlynn presided because Continental removed the complaint from Madison County circuit court to U.S. district court. He wrote that a plaintiff’s choice of forum is entitled to deference,...