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Acoustic Guitar Magazine, January 2006 Issue, Teja Gerken, AGM Gear Editor
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With more than 130 luthiers displaying their handmade guitars (as well as a few mandolins, bouzoukis, basses, and miscellaneous stringed oddities), the 2005 festival was the largest and most successful yet. Add cool workshops (by such guitarists as Muriel Anderson, Steve Baughman, Peppino D’Agostino, Peter Lang, Gyan Riley, and yours truly), daytime concerts featuring guitars made by exhibiting luthiers, and evening concerts (by the likes of Dan Crary, Beppe Gambetta, Franco Morone, Todd Hallawell, and the John Jorgenson Quintet), and the result was a heavenly weekend for acoustic-guitar connoisseurs.
The guitar exhibition proved how incredibly advanced and elegant custom lutherie has gotten on the whole. This was evidenced not just by “star” luthiers such as Linda Manzer, Kevin Ryan, and Jeff Traugott, but also by the many new-generation builders. Even with hundreds of fine guitars squeezed into one place, instruments made by first-time exhibitors such as Matt Mustapick,
Rod Schenk,
Eric Poulsen,
Stephen Stratton, and
Paul Woolson drew crowds of curious, appreciative guitarists. more...
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