The workshop schedules are now posted on the Wintergrass 2023 site (https://wintergrass.com/) and we are once again doing a Fretboard Journal Vintage Instrument workshop session. For those who have not been, Wintergrass is a fantastic annual event held all indoors at the very nice Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington. A really great line up for the workshop this year with Darrell Scott on guitars and Matt Flinner on mandolin family instruments and perhaps a few other surprise guest artists joining in. This event is set for Friday, February 24th from 10:00 am to 11:30 in the Evergreen Ballroom stage at the Hyatt Regency hotel, Wintergrass headquarters. As we always try to do, we will have the room for some time after the workshop which will end by 11:15 or 11:30 so anyone who wants to look over and talk about the instruments and talk to the artists can do so. We have some very cool and rare instruments lined up for this year’s event.
This workshop has been a highlight of the Wintergrass festival (artists from past years include David Grisman, Mike Compton, Kenny Smith, Chris Eldridge, Julian Lage, Scott Nygaard, Eli West, Tim Stafford, John Reischman, Patrick Sauber, Sharon Gilchrist, Joe K. Walsh, Dale Atkins and many others) and it promises to be great fun again this year with some very cool vintage instruments in the hands of such talented artists. Please come out and support this great festival and this workshop - hoping to see many Mandolin Café folks at this event.
In addition, for the first time, Wintergrass will have a Vintage Musical Instrument Museum event on Friday and Saturday from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Westin Hotel venue which will have a stage and various Wintergrass events this year - just across the skybridge from the Hyatt. If you cannot make it to the workshop, come out to the Museum events where we will have a display of historically significant instruments available to look at, vintage instrument historians to talk to and various artists to demonstrate them. In addition to a few Gibson Lloyd Loar mandolin family instruments and some golden era Martin D-28’s and D-18’s, we will have many other interesting pieces from the mid 1800’s, through the turn of the century, as well as other golden era instruments from the 1930's–1940’s made by C.F. Martin, Gibson, Washburn, Regal and others. Please join us at Wintergrass and don’t miss these Museum and workshop events.
Thanks, as always, to Wintergrass for making it happen, to the Fretboard Journal folks for their support, and to D’Addario for sending us new strings to make the instruments sound their best.
Mark Demaray
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