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Did you know that the modern acoustic guitar's forebears were first made in the Renaissance? Whether it's a long-held desire or a New Year's impulse, learning to play guitar is easy in San ...
Aimee Nolte Music. San Francisco Bay Blues Piano Tutorial. Posted: March 7, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025. If you watched my performance video and wanted to learn how to play in this Jesse ...
GG Amos has been playing guitar for almost 50 years. Yet she calls herself “a late bloomer.” The singer-guitarist, based in San Francisco, was in her mid-30s when she discovered the joys of ...
Bay Area blues harmonica great Mark Hummel, a longtime friend and collaborator of Thompson’s recalls that the guitarist was part of Hummel’s 2013 touring tribute to Jimmy Reed, along with ...
Jazz news: San Francisco Bay Blues & Jazz Scene. Posted in “Performance / Tour” column. Published: August 6, 2010 ... Jazz was popular in the Fillmore as early as 1930, and as the black population of ...
This story is a blues. A San Francisco Bay blues, steeped in the mythology of musicians like Son House and Robert Johnson -- the former convicted of murder, the latter reportedly poisoned to death ...
Blue Bear School of Music is a nonprofit providing music lessons to children, ... 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay. Welcome, Mickey. [email protected].
He’s only one of the greatest blues musicians of all time, one who can light up the guitar like nobody’s business. So, catch Guy when he performs April 13 at the Masonic in San Francisco.
Jerry Miller, a founding member of the pioneering ’60s San Francisco psychedelic rock band Moby Grape, died July 20 in Tacoma, Washington. Miller had just turned 81 earlier this month. The cause ...
A funny fact, though, ties the event to the San Francisco Bay Area: Eight nominees are directly linked to a hefty, chain-smoking Norwegian from San Jose. Christoffer Andersen — or “Kid” Andersen, as ...
Guitar Lessons With Mike Powell 532 Ashbury St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 621-4165 One of the most important elements to learning anything is to find a teacher that will listen to you wants ...