guitarsociety

...random bits leading to blues...

Once again the Wahkiakum Acoustic Guitar Society was fortuned to be hosted by the wonderful folks at the Inn at Lucky Mud, relaxing in the warm, comfortable, and acoustically bright main room right off the foyer. Pluck a string, play a riff, unfetter your fingers a bit, and you can hear every tone clearly.

As the first to arrive this evening, I had a chance to talk with a resident musical savant (and one of the professional musicians in the group) Sunrise Fletcher, babbling and bantering a bit about styles, scales,  and other scintillating subjects of a musical sort.

Our scheduled featured performance was delayed due to life's logistical  liquidity (ok, ok, so I'm stretching my alliterations a bit here),  but we hope to see the much anticipated Glen Bristow debut in the near future.

The songs rather rotated around, providing each of us an excuse to trot out any tried-and-true or even transitory demonstration of digital dexterity. The manual manipulation of melodious mastery was interspersed with technical discussions of the relationships between chord changes and scalar structures--bits of which went over my head (but in a good way, in that it helps my understanding of the underlying music/guitar theory grow to encompass new dimensions of jazz, flamenco, and classical). At any rate, it was yet another wonderful evening of guitar, music, theory, and bits O' frivolity.

Our duly (s)elected president (perhaps "drafted" would be more accurate) Rick Nelson came up with a *theme* (blues) for this upcoming meeting on Wednesday the 4th of April (at 7pm, the usual time, at the Inn at Lucky Mud). For Wednesday night's gathering, everyone should bring a blues tune or three.   

Hope to see you there!

...gratifying guitar glimmerings...

This first WAGS meeting of March blew in blustery, like the weather outside--squalls of classical, gusts of flamenco, a drizzle of blues, and followed by rhythmic downpours of innovative guitar from all around the room.

The evening was a bit relaxed and informal--a warm and inviting environment with friendly folks and a meandering cat (Lily) taking up residence on perfectly good laps that weren't doing anything else...

...this evening, the responsibility for guitar recital rotated, circuitously cycling through the circle of  genuinely grand guitarists, gratifying the entire audience with ambient artistry--a seriously sumptuous set of auditory sensations...

Ok, ok, so we really had a bit of fun, each guitarist taking a turn or two, some singing songs familiar enough that many joined in, some playing fascinating instrumental arrangements, as well as some tidbits from singer/songwriters in the group demonstrating personally developed instrumentals and vocals.

This was yet another marvelous meeting at the wonderfully warm and welcoming environment of the Inn at Lucky Mud, and many thanks to our hosts Sunrise and Jessica Fletcher for supporting our musical madness and minor mayhem!

The upcoming featured performer for the March 28th meeting is Glen Bristow. While he cites his uncle Rick as one of his sources of inspiration, his guitar style exudes an eclectic energy derived from a wide range  of musical styles and artists. For those who have been fortunate enough to be at the last couple of meetings, we've been treated to a number of exciting examples of Glen's enticing guitar work, and thus know that this upcoming performance is one not to be missed!

See you there!