FGH-0024: Interview with First Rate German Acoustic Guitarist Thomas Fellow
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Release Date: 01/19/2023
FGH 0026: Interview with Peppino D'Agostino - Transcendant Guitarist and Composer
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Summary, Episode 26: A native of Italy, D’Agostino has made his considerable international mark as a musical artist on the guitar since he arrived in America 37 years ago. In 2017 Guitar Player listed him as one of the 50 transcendent superheroes of the acoustic guitar. The CD, “Every Step of The Way,” was awarded by Acoustic Guitar’s People’s Choice Awards with a Bronze medal for Best Acoustic Album of All Time. His signature Seagull acoustic guitar has been voted among the ten best signature guitars by Guitar Player magazine. To date, Peppino has recorded 19 CD’s,...
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FGH-0025: Interview with Jon Gomm - Singer Songwriter and Fingerstyle Innovator
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Summary Episode 25: Jon Gomm is a singer songwriter considered to be one of the world’s true virtuoso guitarists possessing a unique style most elite musicians consider revolutionary. Jon was born and continues to live in the North of England. His songs are driven by his use of one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and twisting melodies all at the same time with no external effects. The emphasis remains on his soulful vocals and songwriting with his original material influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead. His live shows combine deeply personal performances...
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FGH-0024: Interview with First Rate German Acoustic Guitarist Thomas Fellow
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Thomas Fellow is a musician with an almost inexhaustible supply of innovative energy. He is a first rate acoustic guitarist,
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FGH-0023: Interview with Muriel Anderson - Multi-Dimensional Fingerstyle Champion
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Muriel Anderson is one of the more multi-dimensional guitarists on the
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FGH-0022: Interview with Billy McLaughlin - His Historic Comeback
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
For twenty years, Billy McLaughlin astounded audiences around the world with his complex and rhythmic music.
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FGH-0021: Interview with English Fingerstyle Guitarist Richard Smith
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Richard started playing the guitar at age 5 and has never looked back. Focusing early on with the fingerstyle guitar of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, he began transcribing classical music, Jazz, the gypsy style of Django Reinhardt, bluegrass, ragtime and the blues to Sousa marches.
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FGH-0020: Interview with Don Alder - Fingerstyle Champion, Composer and Vocalist
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Don Alder plays acoustic fingerstyle guitar with a passion that has quickly earned him a reputation as Vancouver’s “best kept little secret”. Don is a world-class fingerstyle guitarist with a “wow factor” that has let to multiple endorsement deals with major manufacturers and a collaboration with Greenfield guitars to produce a signature acoustic guitar- the “Don Alder G4” model.
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FGH-0019: Interview with Don Ross - 2 time National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Composer
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
In 1988, Don became the first Canadian to win the U.S. National Fingerpick Guitar Championship. He won again in 1996, still the only two-time winner of the competition.
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FGH-0018: Interview with Jazz and Country Master Guitarist Jim Nichols
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Jim Nichols has an unusual approach to the guitar - he uses a thumb pick and fingers to play everything from Chet Atkins style to modern jazz.
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FGH-0017: Interview with Australian Guitar Virtuoso Michael Fix
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Over the past 25 years, Michael Fix has released fifteen albums, together with several DVD’s, songbooks, singles and EPs, tours internationally each year, and has established himself as one of Australia’s finest guitarists and composers, writing evocative music for television, film and documentaries.
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Thomas Fellow is a musician with an almost inexhaustible supply of innovative energy. He is a first rate acoustic guitarist,a stunning virtuoso and is considered one of the best musical collaborators in the guitar world.
His name is associated with the development of the pioneering education program called the "Acoustic Guitar (concert music, world music, jazz, and pop)"at the “University of Music Dresden” (Germany). He's the the artistic director of the "European Guitar Award" and he is also known for authoring the comprehensive book entitled the "FELLOW GUITAR BOOK" - which focuses on the guitars role as an accompanying instrument.
35 years after his first full-length concert (at the age of 17) he has performed over 3000 concerts in more than 30 countries.
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