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About the festival.

The third guitar makers festival is scheduled for Sat 21 and Sun 22 May 2011

details, including performers and makers attending will be updated soon.

 Melbourne Guitar Makers festival is an opportunity to see and play some beautiful handmade guitars, and meet the people who make them, in an intimate setting.

 These instruments are seldom seen in shops, and the workshops of the makers often off the beaten track.

 Its great to see photos online, or occasionally find a gem in a shop somewhere. But nothing compares to sitting with the instruments, playing them and hearing them played.

  To have a range of guitars and makers together, and available for a whole weekend is a rare thing!

 It took a concerted effort to get it all together in 2009, and was well worth it.

 For the 2010 festival we are sticking to the original simple idea. To showcase the handmade guitar by exhibiting work of the highest quality from established makers.

 The exhibition

 The Abbotsford convent provides a great venue for the guitars. The grand halls are a pleasure to be in.

 Showing acoustic instruments always presents the problem of noise. A busy room full of great energy can be too noisy to sit and play a guitar.

  We will set up the exhibition with that in mind, and the convent itself offers many quiet spaces close by.

 There will be a small charge to enter the exhibition. This is to help cover the cost of the event. It also helps with the noise levels in the exhibition by limiting the people coming in to those truly interested.

Player Workshops

There will be a series of workshops with in depth tuition, presented by respected and accomplished musicians, covering many different aspects of the guitar

Details will be posted soon

 The evening concert.

   Last years concert had a great informal feel to it and this one will be something similar…

 SO far the line up for 2011 includes..

  Matt walker
Lucas Michaelidis
Jenny Marie
Sergio Ercole
James Sherlock
Nick Charles and
Jeff Lang




 

Admission prices

Guitar makers Exhibition    $15 per day

Workshops    $45

Saturday evening concert   $30

Some photos of the 2010 festival, with thanks to Andrew Hives and Paul McBride who took these pictures...

  Here are some photos from the 2009 festival...