the Twin Cities Acoustic Guitar Show

[Tim Reede]

The Twin Cities Acoustic Guitar Show is a two day event August 6-7 2016. Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm and Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm. Regional luthiers from across Minnesota as well as Wisconsin, South Dakota, Iowa and Manitoba presenting their hand made acoustic guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles. The location will be at the McNally Smith College of Music in downtown St. Paul. It will be promoted as part of St. Paul’s 2016 “Year of Music”. The auditorium will be used for daily performances by some of the most talented musicians around. Saturday evening concert is provided by the Lowertown Guitar Festival.

[ChuckS]

Hey Tim,
Glad to see the show is coming together. It might be helpful if you could post a link to the website or other sources of information. Folks would probably be interested in the luthiers attending and the musicians demoing their instruments.

[Tim Reede]

Here is our web site www.twincitiesguitarshow.com
Most of our luthiers are regional to the upper midwest, but not all.

Dave Livermore
Kevin Pederson
Gordon Bischoff
Charlie Hoffman
David Vincent
Brian Applegate
Michael Keller
Steve Kakos
Lloyd Laplant
Randolph Ukuleles
J Rieck Guitars
John Derrick
Drew Heinonen
Bruce and Matt Petros
Dan Ryerson
Allan Beardsell
Owasso Guitars
Phil Lang
Vesper guitars
Bob Long
Tony Vines
Tim Reede

[Tim Reede]

In the Auditorium at McNally Smith College there will be daily performances using the instruments in the exhibit. Some of the performers will be Mike Cramer, a great flat picker and mandolin player as well as a great Jazz player, Daniel Volovetz, an amazing flamenco player, Greg Gilbertson, a modern finger style player in the vein of Michael Hedges or Andy McKee, Tim Sparks, one of the best finger style players around, Jerry Kosak, an all around talented performer who can play just about anything, Ben Abrahamson, an incredible classical guitarist who also plays steel string, and many more.

[ChuckS]

Hi Tim,
I sent out e-mails to 40-50 AGF members who are located in the Twin Cities area. These folks are either members of the Twin Cities AGF Association or they were on the mailing list from one of our previous Twin Cities AGF Get-Togethers. Hopefully the show will get a good attendance.

There is also a thread about the show in the Custom Shop sub-forum.

[Tim Reede]

There seems to be a good buzz on the street about this. Thank you ChuckS for all of your help to make this a success.

[M19]

Tim, why don't you join the TCAGF group on FaceBook. You can post some promotional stuff there every week up until the day.

[Tim Reede]

The performers for the Lowertown Guitar Festival have been posted. This will be the concert event in St. Paul August 6th. The Twin Cities Acoustic Guitar Show is partnering with this event.

Performers at the Lowertown Guitar Festival will be:

Bo Ramsey
David Grier
Peter Lang
Pushing Chain
Zack Harris
Mike Salow
Siama Matuzungidi
Rena Haus
Mike Salovich

Along with these performers at the Twin Cities Acoustic Guitar Show:

Tim Sparks
Phil Heywood
Ben Abrahamson
Sam Breckenridge
Christoph Bruhn
Mike Cramer
Greg Gilbertson
Jerry Kosak
Daniel Volovets
Jason Zimmerman
Frank Kissane
Adam Bjoraker
Steve Craig

[Tim Reede]

This weekend August 6-7, the first of it's kind in the Minnesota, is the Twin Cities Acoustic Guitar Show in downtown St. Paul. There will be 22 luthiers and 22 performers (if you count the performers at the Lowertown Guitar Festival happening only two blocks from the exhibit). www.twincitiesguitarshow.com

[nedley]

I made it over there today and thought I'd share a few pics.

[M19]

I really liked that Beardsell Fan Fret (last Pic).

Oh, and the Applegate Brazilian was to die for. And Gerry Humphrey's amps and speaker cabinets were out of this world.

[ChuckS]

Thanks for posting the pics.

It was great meeting the builders and I reconnected with about 8 other AGF members. Marty and Jeff are taking the initiative to get an AGF get-together setup for this fall.

For me the guitar winners, in no particular order were the Hoffman Cocobolo 00, the Applegate Cocobolo, the Reede fan fret (and I'd like to play the Reede 0 sized ABW after it gets a little time to realize it's now a guitar instead of a piece of wood). Also enjoyed finally meeting Lloyd LaPlant.

Thanks to Tim Reede for orchestrating this show.

[Tim Reede]

I want to thank everyone that contributed to or attended the Twin Cities Acoustic Guitar Show. What a great group of people. The guitars were brilliant and diverse and from what I heard, the performances in the auditorium were outstanding. We did record everything so I am looking forward to watching all of that and I will be sharing videos when we get them done.

[Joe Mendel]

Thank you Tim for inviting me, I had a great time and met a lot of good folks. It was a little out of my neighborhood, but a good trip. It was rather humbling to have my table between Applegate and Petros, Exceptionally nice instruments. The show was very well done.

[duncan_guitars]

Daniel Volovetz is excellent.