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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: 2nd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering June 3-5, 2011


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robbif - Posted - 04/09/2011:  05:29:39



 From Mark Josephs...



THE SECOND ANNUAL TENOR GUITAR GATHERING 



                                  ASTORIA, OREGON    JUNE 3-5, 2011



                                        tenorguitargathering.com



The 2nd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering has shaped up to be an impressive event. We learned what people liked last year, riding and playing on The Trolley (we will be doing that TWICE), and jamming outside of Gordo's Astoria Guitar Company. Everyone who attended last year was duly amazed by Spider Murphy's prowess, and we are happy he will be performing again this year. Spider mentioned having a parade, and so, we have added a "tenor guitar parade" into the mix of events. Two very special evening events will be Friday's tribute to the late Nick Reynolds, the tenor guitarist from The Kingston Trio, who will be inducted into The Tenor Guitar Hall of Fame during the fundraising event for radio station KMUN that will have everyone playing and singing Kingston Trio songs, and Saturday's evening event, An Evening of Tenor Guitars, featuring four very different styles of tenor guitar players from all over the country.



There will be enough time to take a few workshops given by Marcy Marxer, check out the guitars at The Astoria Guitar Company, and be a part of the 200th Anniversary Celebration of the town of Astoria1811-2011. 



Here's what will be happening:



FRIDAY JUNE 3RD



9:00am to 10:00am: Meet and Greet at The Astoria Guitar Company



31st Streeton The Columbia River



(From Route 30, turn on 31st Streettowards the Columbia Riverand park at the end of the street, right before the Trolley Tracks.)



Pick up your prepaid ticket to An Evening of Tenor Guitars



Pick up your prepaid Tenor Guitar Gathering T-shirt and poster



Pick up your prepaid Raffle Tickets for a new Warren Ellis Electric Tenor Guitar, courtesy of Eastwood Guitars



Or buy a ticket for Friday and Saturday's evening events if they are still available



(we will be at this location from 9amuntil noon)  



Marcy Marxer will be teaching a very rare workshop on the tenor guitar. $50 will get you a two hour learning experience, with hand outs, that you'll be able to use and share with others for the rest of your life. Only interested in one workshop? $30 for one, $50 for two. Even if you are an advanced player, you are bound to pick up one key technique from TG 101 that you will use, and it will be worth the modest fee. Marcy is flying in from the East Coast at her own expense because she is so excited about being part of TG 2. Let's support her by attending this workshop. Seating is limited to 50, so get your tickets before they're gone.



10:00am to 11:00am: MARCY MARXER'S WORKSHOP / TG 101



11:00amto noon: MARCY MARXER'S WORKSHOP / TG 102



12:30pm: TENOR GUITAR PARADE 



along the Columbia RiverWalk



12:30 Gather outside The Astoria Guitar Company with your tenor guitars (other instruments welcome) and parade along the Columbia River Walk to the Riverfront Park area where we will play until 1:30



1:30until 7:30:Explore Astoria



3:00pm to 4:00pm: Tune in to Carol Newman's KMUN radio program "Arts-Live&Local" and hear her talk about this year's event!



7:30 pm: Sing and Play Along with the KingstonTrio and Tenor Guitar Hall of Fame Presentation



This event is a fundraiser for KMUN, Astoria's local non-profit radio station 



Astoria Art and Movement Center



Eleventh and Harrison



(in the Fellowship Hall of the First Presbyterian Church of Astoria)



Bring your tenor guitars, guitars, harmonicas, mandolin's, five string and four string banjo's, concertina's, penny whistle's, conga and bongo drums, and be prepared to play and sing a long to songs that were made popular by The Kingston Trio. 



Lyric sheets and the keys the Kingston Trio played them in will be available for those with poor memories.



The late Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio will be the first tenor guitar player to be inducted into the newly created Tenor Guitar Hall of Fame. A presentation will be made at this event where son Josh Reynolds will be accepting the award on behalf of his Dad. Kurt Schoen, a talented luthier from Walla Walla, Washington, has designed a special Tenor Guitar Hall of Fame Plaque for tonight's presentation. 



$10 suggested donation at the door



all proceeds from this event go to KMUN



doors open at 7:30 pm/ program from 8:00pmto around10:00pm





SATURDAY JUNE 4TH



PLAY MUSIC ON THE TROLLEY 9:00am to 10:00pm



meet at 9amin front  of The Astoria Guitar Company



We will board at 9amsharp and play our tenor guitars and other instruments if you have them, while we ride the Trolley .



(The Astoria Trolley is $1 for a one time ride or $2 to ride all day, so have your dollars ready) We will be let off back at The Astoria Guitar Company.



10:00amuntil noon: Jam outside or inside the Astoria Guitar Company, depending on the weather



(Although this a tenor guitar event, all acoustic instruments are welcome…) 



noonuntil 2:00pmLUNCH BREAK



2:00pmmeet back at The Astoria Guitar Company and jam and share information until 5:00pm 



6:30pm: An Evening of Tenor Guitars featuring SPIDER MURPHY, MARCY MARXER, MYSHKIN and MARK JOSEPHS



Performing ArtCenter



1653 Jerome



doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7:00pmand ends at 10:30pm



$15 advance tickets, $20 at the door if available.



Eastwood Guitars has generously donated a brand new Warren Ellis Model electric tenor guitar and case, retail value $800, to be raffled off this evening. We greatly appreciate the support we have gotten from this innovative guitar company. 



Raffle tickets are only $5 each!!!Buy a lot and WIN this guitar!!! 



Spider Murphy: Spider may very well be the finest tenor guitar player in the world. He has been playing tenor banjo and tenor guitar for over forty years. Those who were fortunate to attend the first Tenor Guitar Gathering last June, bear witness to this rare talent. We are proud to have him back this year. He's working on a new CD and will hopefully have it available, but nothing beats hearing him sing and play live.



Spider's tenor guitar and voice will dazzle you.



Marcy Marxer: Marcy came as an attendee year, and returns as a headliner. She is all over YouTube on all kinds of stringed instruments. She is a multi-instrumentalist, studio musician, performer, songwriter and producer with over 30 years of experience and a shelf of impressive awards. She has played acoustic music on Emmy Award winning National Geographic specials, platinum shipping Eva Cassidy CD's, and on over 50 recordings and instructional materials created with her partner, Cathy Fink.  



Myshkin: She has been evolving for years as one of the most interesting songwriters around, sometimes choosing the tenor guitar, a unique instrument, to fit her unique songs and voice. Visit her impressive website to learn much more about her. Sing Out Magazine describes Myshkin's music as "darkly joyous, endlessly restless, and spellbing. Gypsy, Celtic, cabaret and punk influences, a masterfully mercurial, seductive voice." 



Mark Josephs: A lot of people wonder if the founder of The Tenor Guitar Registry, one of the "five tenors" who started tenorguitar.com, and the organizer of the Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering, can actually play the instrument and, if so, what does he sound like. Mark's "folk song material" consists of Buddy Holly and Rolling Stones songs mixed in with a few originals. He may be the only musician using "tremolo"  tonight.  



You can learn some of Mark's tenor guitar arrangements, talk to other tenor guitar players about string gauges and how not to break the high A string, and discover all you ever need to know about tenor guitars at the premier web portal for all things tenor: tenorguitar.com





SUNDAY JUNE 5TH



8:00amto noon: Breakfast at The Coffee Girl 



Grab some coffee, have a bagel and lox breakfast, meet up with your new friends. We will informally have our las sing a long either inside the Coffee Girl or Outside, depending on the weather and how many people attend. 



The Coffee Girl is located at the end of historic Pier 39



(Park your car in the lot at the end of 39th streetand walk through the Pier to The Coffee Girl) 



noon: Farewell TROLLEY RIDE



We will board the trolley at the 39th StreetStop, but you can board the Trolley anywhere on the route and meet us if you can't make it to The Coffee Girl stop by noon.

Astoria's Sunday Outdoor market is happening today from 11amuntil 3pm. You might plan to get off the Trolley at enjoy this wonderful downtown festival filled with great food, a live band and crafts.

For those of you staying over Sunday evening, we may put together an informal jam, if you're not too played out by then! 



For Tickets and more information:tenorguitargathering.com



 



You can see the discussion of the 1st Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering at flatpickerhangout.com/topic/14483



robbif - Posted - 05/20/2011:  04:53:39


 





This is copied from email from Mark Josephs. It doesn't display exactly correctly, but I hope you get the idea...


 


 


 




Second Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering






 




















Nick Reynolds




Nick Reynolds and the Kingston Trio




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 




 



There were many musicians who played the four string tenor guitar over the years, but none were as visible or as well known as Nick Reynolds of The Kingston Trio. 



 



Nick's small four string guitar was on the cover of almost every Kingston Trio Album. And when the Trio performed on television for millions of viewers, musicians took note of Nick's guitar and were moved to find out what kind of instrument it was, and buy one for themselves, so they too, could play like The Kingston Trio and sound like Nick Reynolds.



 



Nick loved the sound of the small guitar and put a capo on the fifth fret to get an even higher pitched sound. It became The Kingston Trio's sound.



 



When you ask a tenor guitar player of a certain age, how they first became interested in the tenor guitar, the answer is, in most cases, "because Nick Reynolds played one."



 



It didn't matter that Nick tuned his tenor like the top four strings of a six string guitar because he was used to playing a baritone ukulele. Followers would acquire a tenor guitar at a music store, and in those days, all major instrument companies made a tenor guitar, or a tenor guitar might be special ordered along with a Mel Bay tenor banjo book to learn the chords.



Long before the "internet" all information was word of mouth.



"It's a tenor guitar! It's tuned like a tenor banjo! Buy a tenor banjo book!"



 



It is only natural that the personal most responsible, totally without intention, to have made the most serious impact on the promotion and growth of the tenor guitar, the person who most single handedly put this obscure instrument on the map, and the person who has had such an influence on myself, members of The Tenor Guitar Registry, and whose presence is felt at every Tenor Guitar Gathering of any kind, anywhere, should be the very first musician inducted to the Tenor Guitar Hall of Fame.



 



And so, on this day of June 3, 2011, in the town of Astoria, Oregon, on behalf of tenor guitarists all around the world, we hereby proudly induct Nick Reynolds as the first inductee to The Tenor Guitar Hall of Fame. 



 



 




 



 




 


 




 




 



 


robbif - Posted - 06/20/2011:  17:13:06


 



Mark Josephs performs "Raindrops", a 1960's hit for Dee Clark, on the Blueridge BR40 tenor guitar during AN EVENING OF TENOR GUITARS at the Performing Art Center in Astoria, Oregon as part of the 2nd Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering June 3-5, 2011.

youtube.com/watch?v=gVQS63ojO0Q


 


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