Michael DeLalla's Blog (3)

To all my friends and fans in the east and midwest: I'm currently booking a July tour around a guitar workshop I'll be teaching. I would love to fill out the calendar more with a house concert or three. I'll be in VA/MD/DC/WV for two weeks starting July 4th weekend. So I could land a date the week before or on the way back to CO,perhaps in Indiana, Missouri, or Kansas. I have a comprehensive "How To Host a House Concert" guide that helps the first-time concert host through the details. Let me… Continue

I conduct several workshops throughout the year, ranging from an afternoon to two-weeks long, covering a variety of guitar-related topics, from right-hand technique to improvisation to the Creative Process. Without fail, a favorite topic in these workshops is my nail care routine.

This is partly because of a quirky little factoid for which I am known, for better or worse: I haven't broken a playing nail since 1982. That's not a typo--Nineteen Eighty…

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Greetings, Friends and Fans.



After finishing up 2009 with a wonderful tour in Florida I’m home for the next few months, and thought I’d take the opportunity to do a little research regarding live music and its place in our busy lives.



We’re all so busy. We all spend more and more time on “social networks”—definitely networking, but how social is it? Likewise, we access music in so many more ways than live and up-close—we download, we trade files; once in a while we even… Continue