News & Notes
August 5th, 2010 - Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine Announces Sponsorship Of The 7th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards
Fingerstyle Guitar, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to honoring the legends of fingerstyle guitar, as well as giving exposure to the top players of present and future generations, is proud to be providing Platinum Level sponsorship of the 7th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA) for 2010.
Feb 10th 2010 - Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine Issue #70 Release Date
Our next Issue, #70, honoring the remaining living Certified Guitar Players Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Wariner and John Knowles and their tribute to Chet Atkins, is going to press this week and will be mailed to subscribers and newsstand distributors the week of February 15th.
This issue, packed with 112 pages of expanded content (48 pages more than issue #69) including new Master Series by Pete Huttlinger "Finger Tips", Joe LoPiccolo "World Guitar", John Buscarino "Luthier's Workbench", Roger Hudson "Fingerstyle Basics" and Vahagn Turgutyan "Flamenco-Ology", John Knowles, John McClellan and John Standefer. Also included is new Master Workshops by Tom Boyer and Tim Thompson. The companion CD contains 13 tracks including Chet Atkin's rendition of "America the Beautiful."
Nov 7th 2009
Just finished Steve's Wariner's interview for the next issue. Great Chet Stories and a heartfelt tribute. Will also feature a full transcription of "Leavin' Luttrell."
Nov 4th 2009
Just finished transcribing an new interview with Tommy Emmanuel - What a great interview! On his part, I mean.. It will run in the next issue #70.
Oct 29th 2009
John Knowles gave a clinic in Nashville last night - he played great! Look for John's series in FG and feature story in our next issue.