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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gibson Guitar Corporation
Gibson Guitar is a privately held corporation (its stock is not publicly traded on a stock exchange), owned by chief executive officer Henry Juszkiewicz and president David H. (Dave) Berryman.
Valley Arts Guitar is a small electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Musical Instrument Company.
A steel string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gibson-Guitar-Corporation   (1015 words)

  
 Valley Arts Guitar - ActoGuitar
Valley Arts Guitar is a small electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
They began building custom guitars from scratch in 1977, and by 1983 demand for these guitars had increased to the point of requiring a separate manufacturing facility.
Most of their guitars were modifications of the basic design of the Stratocaster.
www.actoguitar.com /wikipedia-guitar-manufacturers/6907-valley-arts-guitar.html   (367 words)

  
 Gibson's Valley Arts Guitar Announces 1st Annual Rally in the Valley Friday, September 19th, 2003 to benefit Muscular ...
Valley Arts Guitar will celebrate its unique entertainment venue in downtown Nashville with the 1st Annual Rally in the Valley, featuring free musical entertainment from top regional and local bands, plus a drawing for a free Valley Arts guitar.
Prizes and contests for a Valley Arts guitar, Epiphone electric guitar player packs and Epiphone T-shirts are all part of the excitement of this event.
Gibson Guitar and Valley Arts invite Nashville to the downtown event of the season
www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2003/sept15a.html   (421 words)

  
 Valley Arts Guitar Team in Conway, Arkansas Produce Exclusive "Live 8" Guitars for Worldwide Concerts Raising Awareness ...
Inside the Valley Arts guitar plant, part of the Gibson Guitar Company, stand a few, select American citizens who have worked tirelessly in an effort to provide Bob Geldof and his host of award-winning performers exclusive handmade, Live 8 guitars.
These Valley Arts LIVE 8 guitars, created in the shape of the African continent, are each made from select, native African Zebrawood.
If you ask anyone who has lent their hand in making the guitars why they did it they would tell you it's a chance for ordinary people to do an extraordinary thing and call on world leaders at this year's G8 summit to stop the needless deaths of 30,000 children every single day.
www.modernguitars.com /archives/000881.html   (673 words)

  
 Valley Arts Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valley Arts Guitar is a small electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
Most of their guitars were modifications of the basic design of the Stratocaster.
They quickly became dissatisfied with their positions in the company and the quality of the guitars manufactured by Samick, and by 1993 they had moved to positions at Gibson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valley_Arts_Guitar   (370 words)

  
 Santiago Almeida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The style originated during the 1920s and ’30s along the Texas-México border out of the interaction of Mexican music with styles brought to Texas by central European immigrants.
The lead instrument is the Hohner button accordion, and the rhythm instrument, the bajo sexto, which he played, is similar to a guitar, but with twelve strings and a much lower bass.
In 1993 Señor Almeida received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
www.arts.wa.gov /progFA/heritageAwd/1993_almeida.htm   (157 words)

  
 about: pre-Gibson, pre-Samick Valley Arts Guitars
My guitar path began around the age of 16 when I heard about VALLEY ARTS from a friend of mine that took guitar lessons there.
I was looking for a quality 12 string and not only found this guitar but found a major influence on the rest of my life.
Over my 30 plus years in the guitar industry, I have seen many companies come and go and correct information always seems to be lost.
www.valleyartsguitars.com /about.htm   (612 words)

  
 South Valley Sound
Since 1999, the South Valley Arts Group has selected outstanding local students aged 6-21 to perform as special guests at the awards concert.
is a collaborative effort between the South Valley Arts Center and local artists to increase the community's exposure to and appreciation of the Arts.
Fields of study include keyboards, vocal arts (singing and public speaking), guitar, percussion, dance and creative writing.
www.southvalleysound.com /southvalleyarts.html   (568 words)

  
 Guitar Lessons In Orange County
I also teach more advanced aspects of guitar on six-string or seven-string, acoustic or electric, in any style and at any level.
I'm also a student in the tradition of the legendary and pioneering jazz virtuoso Lenny Breau, and am experienced in aspects of the Lenny Breau Style such as harp harmonics and keyboard-style jazz chord-melody playing.
I've been developing and applying guitar methods in Standard and Uniform Tunings for about 14 years (with the aid of my own software).
lilytears.com /arts/music/guitar/lessons.htm   (379 words)

  
 Valley Advocate: Annual Manual 2002 - Who's Who in the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Once you start assembling a list of influential movers and shakers in the Valley arts scene, it's easy to start feeling like a novelist in the opening paragraphs of a grand epic.
Aloha Steamtrain: One of the most popular bands in the Valley scene for most of its five-year existence, this '60s-influenced power pop trio is planning to call it a day in October.
Dar Williams: Until recently a resident of the Happy Valley, Williams is a nationally acclaimed singer-songwriter blessed with a truly gorgeous voice.
old.valleyadvocate.com /annman02/arts.html   (3020 words)

  
 SUNY Oswego set to hold annual Jazz Guitar Festival
Aiming for both an intellectual and passionate presentation, the longtime teacher and performer is widely considered the country's leading authority on flamenco guitar in part due to his best-selling threevolume method book, "Keys to Flamenco Guitar."
Born on the Indian subcontinent and educated at both the University of Southern California and Manhattan School of Music, Abbasi brings many influences to his performances.
All three artists will also teach sessions at the daylong Jazz Guitar and More Festival, which features a range of musicians offering workshops, master classes and performances geared to educate and entertain players of all skill levels.
www.valleynewsonline.com /news/2006/1104/entertainment-arts/012.html   (431 words)

  
 Guitar Player - Ike Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Guitar Player magazine is the complete acoustic and electric guitar package.
His personality manifested itself in a raw, biting guitar tone and his domineering leadership of super-tight bands that unleashed powerful and thrilling live shows.
Turner was also instrumental in the early careers of B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf, bringing them to the attention of Modern Records in Los Angeles while working as a talent scout for the label’s owners, the notorious Bihari brothers.
www.guitarplayer.com /story.asp?sectioncode=17&storycode=16246   (908 words)

  
 Valley Arts Guitars T-Series Bent Top | Sweetwater.com
Valley Arts was founded in North Hollywood in the early 1970s by guitarists Mike McGuire and Al Carness.
Although they left the business in 1993, both were working for Gibson when Gibson acquired Valley Arts in 2002.
Inside the new Valley Arts building in Nashville, the spirit of the original Valley Arts continues.
www.sweetwater.com /store/detail/VABTH1TB   (401 words)

  
 Guitar Festival
The UTB/TSC Guitar Ensemble Festival began in March of 2001for a duel purpose: to give young guitar students the opportunity to perform in a competitive though encouraging environment and to bring some of the best guitarists to the Valley so that these young and maturing musicians can see great artists perform.
Auditors (people who sit in the audience for the class) are invited no matter what level of guitar expertise and may at no charge.
Patterson is founder of the San Francisco International Guitar Competition, Director of the Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts concert series in San Francisco and head of the Guitar Department at Notre Dame University.
blue.utb.edu /finearts/guitarfestival.htm   (926 words)

  
 Valley Arts Guitar - Shopping.com
The Valley Arts Bent Top Hollow T-Series has a special top contour that brings a new experience in playing comfort to a classic American guitar design...
The Valley Arts Custom Pro is hand-crafted to exacting specifications, using only the finest materials available.
Valley Arts was founded in North Hollywood in the early 1970s by guitarists Mike McGuire and Al...
www.shopping.com /xGS-Valley_Arts_Guitar   (629 words)

  
 Gibson's Valley Arts Guitar
Blues guitar master Larry McCray unveiled the new Valley Arts guitar line at the 20th annual Chicago Blues Festival on Friday, May 30, 2003.
With the introduction of Valley Arts, Gibson has re-created the legendary custom guitar line and "pro shop" guitar store whose client list was once a who's who of Los Angeles guitarists, from Larry Carlton to Lee Ritenour to Tommy Tedesco.
Valley Arts Guitars began in 1970 as a retail store in the Los Angeles area and eventually became a world-renowned custom guitar shop.
www.barryrudolph.com /newtoys/toys/gibsonvalleyarts.html   (329 words)

  
 GUITAR PERFORMANCE OPTION
The newly instituted Guitar Performance Option at Radford University is a program intended to prepare students for the wide array of performing situations available to today's professional guitarists.
The Guitar Program is directed by Dr. Robert Trent, the first and only guitarist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
They may include the Guitar Ensemble Departmental Student Recitals, Junior/Senior Recitals, recitals that include musical collaborations with singers and instrumentalists, and possible performance with band or chamber orchestra.
www.radford.edu /~arts/music/guitar_performance/guitar_perf.htm   (229 words)

  
 ASU News & Information from the Office of Media Relations and Public Information
The popular guitar concert series presented each year by ASU's Herberger College School of Music continues this spring with two concerts, one featuring guitar soloist Cem Duruöz, the other violin and guitar duo Finn Svit and Jochen Brusch.
It features musicians who play the guitar, as well as those who play guitar-related Renaissance and Baroque instruments such as the lute and the vihuela.
Duruöz, who won first prize in the Turkish National Guitar Competition at the age of 17 and studied at Juilliard with Sharon Isbin, has appeared at festivals in Brazil, Greece, Peru, Turkey and the United States, and as a soloist with the Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra.
www.asu.edu /news/arts/spring_guitar_011904.htm   (491 words)

  
 Re: VALLEY ARTS GUITAR INFO (GuitarSite.com)
Valley Arts originally began as a retail store in N. Hollywood during 1967.
In 1992, Samick was involved in a joint venture with VA, and in June 1993 Samick acquired the company entirely, relocating to the City of Industry, California.
But some players prefer BC Rich, Rickenbacher, ESP Guitars, the Gibson SG, or a good selection of Left-Handed Guitars.
www.guitarsite.com /discussion/messages/80779.shtml   (278 words)

  
 CalArts - News and Events: Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Valencia, November 26 - On Saturday, December 13 from 2:00 -4:00 p.m., CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and the Santa Clarita Valley Arts Partnership (SCVAP) present local middle and high school students performing a variety of musical genres in a recital in the Main Gallery at CalArts.
The afternoon concert includes jazz, improvisation and string ensembles, Latin percussion groups, and young musicians performing Djembe drumming, guitar and jazz vocals.
The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) offers in-depth arts training programs free-of-charge for middle school and high school students in jazz, printmaking, photography, video, drawing, graphic design, dance, digital arts, theatre, puppetry, chamber music, world music, animation, and writing in 40 neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County.
www.calarts.edu /news/pressrelease/2003-1-12capscvap.html   (146 words)

  
 MP3tunes.com
He stayed in the area and was known as a session player; jingle writer and performer until moving to L.A. in 1993 after signing an endorsement deal with Valley Arts Guitar.
He played at the 1994 NAMM show with Bunny Brunel for Valley Arts as well as performing in Europe on their behalf.
So, throw in a solo guitar cut recorded at local 47's studio in L.A. and then all I needed was a good mix.
www.mp3tunes.com /artist_details.php?artist_id=2031&display=full   (903 words)

  
 Shenandoah Valley Virginia - Information - Arts and Small Business Networking
Our dealership is uniquely positioned in the Shenandoah Valley Market-Place to service Winchester, Leesburg, Woodstock, Martinsburg WVA and the surrounding suburbs.
Each wedding that I photograph is an original body of art that evokes the essence of your love experience.
Americana Rhythm brings together the richly talented music community and provides a vehicle from which a broader audience will be able to access that community, and appreciate its talent and culture.
www.shenandoahconnection.com   (1191 words)

  
 List of guitar-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seven string guitar The Russian Guitar and Electric guitar
Guitar Freaks An arcade game featuring playing guitars
Guitar Hero Like Guitar Freaks, except for home use
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_guitar-related_topics   (85 words)

  
 Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions® Webzine | Paul Jackson, Jr. - How I Got Started as a Guitarist in Los Angeles | October ...
I recall there was a blue, $20.00 guitar on the wall which she could easily afford.
At the age of 17, on a suggestion from Lee, I entered the University of Southern California as a music performance major.
My signature model guitar (Gibson ES 347) came as a result of my relationship with Mike McGuire, who years ago ran the repair department at Valley Arts Guitar Center in Studio City.
www.guitarsessions.com /oct05/lascene.asp   (1004 words)

  
 Joseph Pecoraro, Guitarist
Pecoraro is also frequently featured on radio and television broadcasts around the U.S. His recordings features major works by Domeniconi, Ponce, Hirsh, Bach, Merlin, and others.
and are distributed by Orchard.  He is also the author of the guitar reading text ‘Read This First’.
Both committed educators as well as performers, the duo offers concerts and educational programs in a variety of venues and is included in the North Carolina Arts Council’s Touring Artist Roster.
mis15.ncarts.edu /music/guitar/pecoraro.htm   (309 words)

  
 FY 2006 Cities List
The Texas Commission on the Arts funds a wide variety of arts and cultural activities across the state.
It is one of the many ways TCA works to ensure that all Texans have access to high quality arts in their communities and schools.
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin
www.arts.state.tx.us /cities/06   (267 words)

  
 Become.com - Shop results for valley arts guitar
Valley Arts Electric Guitar Brent Mason Signature Model
The Valley Arts Brent Mason Signature Guitar When Nashville master session king Brent Mason retired his famous customized studio guitar, he...
The Valley Arts T-Series With hand-crafted attention to detail, and top quality hardware and electronics, the T-series from Valley Arts elevates...
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 Valley Arts Guitars T-Series Bent Top | Sweetwater.com
Because of our great relationship with Valley Arts Guitars, we normally can get this item as quickly as you need it.
McGuire is currently operations manager for the Gibson Custom Shop and Carness is is the Valley Arts product specialist.
The Valley Arts T-Series Bent Top guitar is hand-crafted, using only the finest materials available.
www.sweetwater.com /store/detail/VABTH1NM   (409 words)

  
 Silicon Valley Arts Coalition
The Silicon Vally Arts Coalition is supported in part by a grant from Farrington Historical Foundation.
Representing 18 member arts organizations, the Silicon Valley Arts Coalition announces its third annual Fete the Press luncheon.
This year SVAC will honor Heather Zimmerman, Arts Writer for the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers and the Artsopolis Marketing Partnership team of Arts Council Silicon Valley for bringing community attention to our small budget arts organizations.
www.svarts.org   (416 words)

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