Teja Gerken on the AG Community

With this being Back to School season, I feel a bit like talking about “What I Did Last Summer.” Without a doubt, one of the guitaristic highlights was attending the Healdsburg Guitar Festival in August. Now held in Santa Rosa, California (just a few miles south of the original location in Healdsburg, California), the biannual festival turned the city’s Wells Fargo Center for the Arts into a custom guitar and guitar music temple for… Continue

OK, so here's the follow-up to last weekend's Summer NAMM posts. I don't know what I was thinking that I could get them up on the first day back in the office, so please accept my apology for being a day late...

The Czech Republic’s Stonebridge guitars have been making a splash with fingerstylists such as Antoine DuFour and Richard Smith, and now the company has added to its already extended lineup of models. A new Maccaferri-styl… Continue

Myself and several other Acoustic Guitar staffers--including fellow Senior Editor Scott Nygaard and Editorial Director Dan Gabel--are headed to Nashville, Tennessee to attend the annual Summer NAMM show, which starts Friday, and goes through Sunday. Summer NAMM of course is the slightly smaller version of the primary Winter NAMM show (held in California in January), and it is where many of the industry's main manufacturers and distributors… Continue

I took a drive up the lovely Mendocino coast to visit Goodall Guitars’ new shop in Fort Bragg, California, a couple of weekends ago. From 1992 until late last year, Goodall was located on the Big Island of Hawaii, and became closely identified with their ex… Continue

I’ve been immersed in 12-strings for the past few weeks, the main reason being an upcoming review of six such instruments in the August 2009 issue of Acoustic Guitar. Following the format of our recent reviews of dreadnoughts and mid-size guitars, the article will feature six guitars ranging in price from $330 to $3,900. Frequent Acou… Continue