100s of hand-built Guitars 100s of Acoustic Concerts Master Classes and Seminars Win a $5,000 Solomon Guitar ! South Florida’s Leading GUITAR SHOW Miami Beach Convention Center April 11th 13th Sponsored by: Allied Lutherie Healdsburg, CA Dream Guitars Weaverville, NC Glades Guitars Pembroke Pines, FL newportguitarfestmb.com Welcome to Newport Guitar Festival Miami Beach Welcome Ticket Prices Parking in Miami Beach of Content Table Tickets will be Welcome to the Newport Guitar Festival in Miami Beach. Musicians and Guitar lovers will recognize available at the door and through many of the world’s top guitar-makers (luthiers) and players in this unprecedented gathering in South Florida—and perhaps the world. We have collectable guitars for sale and display, hundreds of mini- concerts, seminars, and master classes—something for everyone who loves guitar, an most everything free with admission. One day pass $20.00 Music lovers will be introduced to the renaissance in guitar-making and acoustic music which has Two day pass been quietly building to a crescendo for the past 15 years, creating a new golden age of guitar in $36.00 our time. Art Collectors and other investors will learn about instruments which have value for their Three day pass mastery, rare materials, and ground-breaking inlay, which consistently far out-perform everything from $48.00 Gold to the S&P 500. Sponsors While providing “art that sings” for the world’s top musicians as well as enthusiastic amateurs, these guitars are recognized by museums around the world. Imagine if you could have bought a Stradi- varius Violin from Stradivarius! Well, at this show you can come very close (and hear Paganini dem- onstrate it!). Recent auctions at Christies and Sotheby’s have seen some of these guitars sell for over a million dollars, when just a few years ago, they were instruments hanging in music shops. Paralleling the world of hand-crafted watches, pens, and other popular collectables, but adding an element of a highly functioning musical instrument, this show provides something for musicians, col- lectors, and just people who love world class acoustic guitar music as it has never been seen before in South Florida. Concert Schedule.................7 Top experts in guitar collecting from the Blue Book of Guitars will be on hand, as well as the world’s top inlay artists and builders—together as never before—in free seminars. We also hope you will join Seminar & Master Classes.....8 us for the early evening concerts on the show floor (also free with admission) by the John Jourgen- Master Luthiers....................9 son Quintet, sponsored by the Fretboard Journal, on Friday and world renowned Acoustic Guitarist Page 9 Page 13 Page 17 Page 21 Page 25 Page 29 Michael Chapdelaine, sponsored by Schenk guitars. Abyss Guitars Craig Lavin Custom Inlay Hayotuk Guitars Manzer Guitars Poling Guitars Voyage-air Guitars A.J. Lucas Darling Guitars Hodges Handcrafted Guitars MacCubbin Guitars Randall Kramer Guitars William “Grit” Laskin Guitars Andrew White Guitars David LaPlante Hoffman Guitars McAlister Guitars Reede Guitars Woolson Soundcraft And of course, everyone will have the opportunity to win a $5,000 Archtop masterpiece by one of the Applegate Guitars David Taylor Guitars John How Guitars McElroy Guitars Ribbecke Guitars Y. Kawakami Guitars hand-built industry’s fastest rising stars, Erich Solomon. (Must be 18 years of age or older to win, no Page 10 Page 14 Page 18 Page 22 Page 26 purchase necessary, see website for rules.) Banjos by Renee de Jonge Guitars John Walker Guitars McKnight Guitars Robinson Inlays Beardsell Guitars Doolin Guitars Jonathan Plant Guitars Mermer Guitars RS Muth Guitars Benedetto Guitars Dream Guitars, Inc. Jonathan Wilson Designs Michael Keller Guitars Schenk Guitars With over 240 demonstration concerts, exhibitions, seminars, master classes, guitar accessories, and, Bluett Brothers Violins Duke of Pearl Julius Borges Guitars Mirabella Guitars Sharp Custom Guitars of course, masterworks of guitars that range up to $300,000 but start in the hundreds, this first show Allied Lutherie Page 11 Page 15 Page 19 Page 23 Page 27 of its kind will thrill the music lover and educate players and collectors alike. Check out our website Brunner Guitars Ebata Guitars Kevin Ryan Guitars Monteleone Guitars Siesta Key Guitars, Inc. at www.newportguitarfestmb.com for updated times and details of classes and performances. Please Healdsburg, CA Bryson Guitars EVD String Instruments Kingslight Guitars Mortoro Guitars Solomon Guitars Charis Acoustic Kinnaird Guitars O.C. Bear Custom Guitars Strobel Guitar note that many more guitars will be exhibited than those listed, and impromptu concerts at exhibitors Ellsberry Archtop Guitars Dream Guitars Charles Fox Guitars Frank Verrilli Custom Klein Gutiars Oriskany Guitars Sugita Kenji Acoustic Guitars tables and in quiet rooms will be taking place all day in addition to the listed demonstrations. Tickets available at the door or at all Ticketmaster outlets. Weaverville, NC Page 12 Page 16 Page 20 Page 24 Page 28 Charles Freeborn Guitars Gadotti Guitars Kragenbrink Guitars Paragon Guitars Tippin Guitars Collings Guitars Galloup Guitars Lashbrook Guitars, LLC Paris Banchetti Guitars Todd Lunneborg Guitars Glades Guitars Henry Lowenstein, Festival Director Collins Guitars German Guitars Lehmann Guitars Ken Parker Archtops Tom Doerr Guitars Comins Guitars Haight Guitars Lucas Custom Instruments Petros Guitars Victor Baker Guitars Pembroke Pines, FL 4 5 ROSEWOOD STAGE MAHAGONY STAGE MERMER GUITARS - Mary Flower OC BEAR GUITARS - Kinloch Nelson POLING GUITARS - John Creech REEDE GUITARS - Steve Kaul VOYAGE AIR GUITARS - Buster B. Jones MONTELEONE - Woody Mann CHARIS ACOUSTIC - Mary Flower CHARLES FREEBORN GUITARS - Woody Mann GALLOUP GUITARS - Don Alder EVD STRING INSTRUMENTS - Edward Victor Dick HOFFMAN GUITARS - Muriel Anderson LAPLANTE GUITARS - Michael Chapdeleine KEN PARKER ARCHTOPS - Enrique Gardano/Richie Zellon LEHMANN STRINGS - Kinloch Nelson BORGES GUITARS - Chris Proctor SUGITA KENJI ACOUSTIC GUITARS - Jaime Stillway RIBBECKE GUITARS - Richie Zellon WILLIAM LASKIN GUITAR MAKER - Paul Asbell MORTORO GUITARS - Woody Mann MCELROY GUITARS - Nina Gerber QUEST GUITARS - Don Alder EBATA GUITARS - Kinloch Nelson GERMAN GUITARS - Woody Mann WOOLSON SOUNDCRAFT - Larry Pattis GADOTTI GUITARS - Richie Zellon/Enrique Gardano Y. KAWAKAMI GUITARS - Peter Farber JOHN WALKER GUITARS - Nina Gerber KLEIN GUITARS - Steve Wildeyildey MIRABELLA GUITARS - Richie Zellon MCKNIGHT GUITARS - Chris Proctor ELSBERRY GUITARS - Richie Zellon MCCUBBIN GUITARS - Michael Chapdeleine KELLER GUITARS - Buster B. Jones BENEDETTO GUITARS - Jerry Sims/Howard Paul AJ LUCAS LUTHIER - Nina Gerber HAYOTUK GUITARS - Steve Wildey COMINS GUITARS - Jerry Sims JOHN HOW GUITARS - Paul Asbell APPLEGATE GUITARS - Nina Gerber DAVID TAYLOR GUITARS - Michael Chapdeleine BRUNNER GUITARS - Roy Book Binder SCHENK GUITARS - Michael Chapdeleine RANDAL KRAMER GUITARS - Steve Wildey RYAN GUITARS - Muriel Anderson JONATHAN WILSON DESIGNS - Jonathan Wilson COLLINS GUITARS - Woody Mann HAIGHT GUITARS - Kinloch Nelson KOA STAGE CHARLES FOX GUITARS - Michael Chapdeleine MAPLE STAGE DOWNSTAIRS TODD M. LUNNEBORG GUITARS - Todd Lunneborg TIMARA CUSTOM SHOP - Tim Wallace MANZER GUITARS - Muriel Anderson ROBIN AMPS - Lee Boys LUCAS GUITARS - Jamie Stillway PEAVY ELECTRONICS - Lee Boys LASHBROOK GUITARS - Paul Asbell PEAVY ELECTRONICS - Lee Boys RS MUTH GUITARS - Jamie Stillway ABYSS GUITARS/ARK AMPS - Lee Boys DREAM GUITARS - Al Petteway STROBEL GUITARS - Tim O'Donnell DEJONGE GUITARS - Mary Flower NECK UP - Mark Hamre PETROS GUITARS - Peter Farber TIMARA CUSTOM SHOP - Tim Wallace ANDREW WHITE GUITARS - Jamie Stillway COLLINGS GUITARS - Pat Karwan DOERR GUITARS - Chris Proctor DIRECT SALES - Jorge Perez/Jose Luis Moreno KRAGENBRINK GUITARS - John Creech The focus of the show is entirely on the display and sale ORISKANY GUITARS - Pat Karwan of the world’s finest guitars. Demonstrations of the SHARP GUITARS - Peter Farber PARIS BANCHETTI GUITARS - Muriel Anderson hand-built instruments in “mini-concerts” will be held SOLOMON GUITARS - Buster B. Jones every 15 minutes on two sound stages. In order to make PARAGON GUITARS - Don Alder KINNAIRD GUITARS - Peter Farber certain that these concerts do not distract from the HODGES GUITARS - Don Alder exhibitors, the demonstrations will be broadcast on large MCALISTER GUITARS - Pat Karwan screens on the floor of the show, so that the concerts can TIPPIN GUITARS - Al Petteway DARLING GUITARS - Paul Asbell be viewed and heard without leaving the exhibition area. Muriel Anderson Woody Mann Carlos Molina The John Jorgenson Quin- Richard Gilewitz Danny Combs tet Peter Farber Andy Wahlberg Don Alder Larry Pattis Steve Kaul Mary Flower Pat Karwan John Creech Nina Gerber Jorge Perez Chris Proctor Jamie Stillway Jerry Sims and Howard Buster B Jones Paul Asbell Paul Al Petteway Kinloch Nelson Enrique Gardano Roy Book Binder Steve Wildey Richie Zellon Mark Hamre Michael Chapdelaine Edward Victor Dick Tim O’Donnell John Jorgenson Quintet Michael Chapdelaine Friday April 11th Saturday April 12th 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Sponsored by Fretboard Journal Sponsored by Schenk Guitars newportguitarfestmb.com Chris Proctor Abyss Guitars Kevin L. Pederson owns and operates Adrian Lucas’ guitars have been praised A.J. Lucas the Abyss Guitar Company as a one-man by Martin Simpson, Pierre Bensusan, Jack shop. Located in Forest City, Iowa, where Lawrence, John Renbourn, Craig Ogden Bradley