The HEALDSBURG GUITAR FESTIVAL commences on the 14th August and runs through to Sunday the 16th of August.
It is held at the Wells Fargo Centre for the Arts, just out of Santa Rosa, close to Healdsburg in the beautiful Napa valley area.
Hundreds of handmade instruments ,carefully and lovingly crafted by Luthiers from six (6) continents, will be on display, to play,purchase or just otherwise browse and admire. Custom steel string,crossover and Baritones’,Classical, Solidbodys’ and beautiful archtops will be found amongst the hundreds of exhibits.
FURTHER there will be ongoing Concerts and workshops, Featuring some of todays most sought after performers and instructors, for example on Saturday morning the 15th August there will be a Luthiery workshop held by—- who is regarded as being amongst the finest of Luthiers in the World he will be talking to the subject of——– so what a treat in store for all those lucky enough to be able to attend.
There will also be a bevy of Guitar Merchant Booths —- SO BRING YOUR MONEY WITH YOU.
I fly over for the festival arriving on on the 12 Th. August and attending some of the workshops and seminars. I have arranged my program so that I will have plenty of time to look at and play Instruments that take my fancy. Subject to me obtaining permission ,I will record and photograph as much of the festival as I can. I plan ,each night to post to the Valleys Guitar Web site an edited selection of each days events all photographic material will be in High Definition Video that can be downloaded from by site along with sound patches in MP3 Format. I will also be uploading still Photos of interest taken in RAW format but manipulated in Photoshop so that the High Definition stills can be uploaded and therefore assessable to those who wish to download from my site. Inquiries that I have so far are very positive and I do not expect to meet with any resistance to me Photographing or sound recording material from the Festival. I will post further on this site later today,particularly with respect to the program.
