Flatpicking guitar workshop planned. Guitarist Steve Kaufman,. the only three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championships, will offer an all-level flatpicking guitar workshop in Newport on Sept. 8-9 at The Create Place, W900 ...
... flatpicking champion and his backing combo are a tornado of pure air in an industry that is choking on the stale ... flatpicking champion at theTelluride Bluegrass Festival. flavoring Thursday when the band plays at Charlie B's ...
... Flatpicking Guitar Championships as well as many Western Regional titles. Doug Mattocks was born in Jacksonville, N.C., and grew up lis-. tening to Dixieland jazz played by his father. At the age of 18, he took up the banjo. He is the ...
... flatpicking champion, is the author of .a flatpicking instruction book and has led workshops at major folk festivals. He plays mandolin, guitar and banjo and has recorded two albums with Flying Fish Records. Performing with him in ...
Rogers named flatpicking champion. Former Junction Citian Randy Rogers, now of Humble, Texas, won the 19th Annual National Flatpicking Championship in Winfield over the weekend at the annual Bluegrass Festival. Rogers, the son of Wayne ...
... flatpicking, which brought the flat-topped, large body, steel string guitar into the forefront of bluegrass and beyond. Among his two-hour plus show was. the first rockabilly crossover, Don Reno's "Country Boy Rock 'n' Roll"- a couple of ...
... flatpicking guitar, fingerpicking guitar, mountain dulcimer, and autoharp — will go to the national competition in September in Winfield, Kansas. The autoharp contest is 7 p.m. Saturday; the mountain dulcimer contest at 7:30 p.m. ...
... flatpicking contest at the Berkshire Mountain Bluegrass Festival, describes his guitar style as a hybrid of bluegrass and folk borrowing heavily from the rolling cross-picking style of banjo players. "Guitarists had to steal songs from ...
... flatpicking, and in fact is often called the Father of Contemporary Flatpicking. He helped to redefine the art form, introduced new tunings and new ideas, and.<changed the way people perceive acoustic music. His style is deeply rooted ...
... Flatpicking Championships in Winfield on Sept. 17. In a field of 54 contestants from throughout the United States and two foreign countries, Randy placed in the top five in the Guitar Flatpicking Championships. Randy attended Junction ...