Here's an interview with Jason Kostal an American luthier who has been building top quality acoustic guitars for several years.
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Stuart Hamm is a bass player discovered by the guitar players through his work behind Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.
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Day 2 of the Holy Grail Guitar Show 2016 was busy with a nice series of interviews that you can watch below. The first series of videos is online in this article. Day 2 interviews Thierry André, luthier from Québec, Canada (André Instruments) Isaac Jang, american luthier (Isaac Jang Guitars) Jamie Gale, luthier agent and consultant (Jamie Gale Music)
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Nir Felder is a jazz guitarist that I met thanks to the official adviser on the subject for The Guitar Channel, namely Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert (a big thank you Bruno!).
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You want to know the point of view of the luthiers about the Holy Grail Guitar Show? Here's a compilation of the reactions from the builders during the 2016 edition with input from Jason Kostal, Nik Huber, Jamie Gale, Peter Malinoski, Sam Evans, Christina Kobler, Isaac Jang and Chris Larkin.
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Jens Larsen is a Jazz musician discovered through his great YouTube channel which is full of lessons about this style of music and many guitar techniques.
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Eric Johnson goes on acoustic guitar and piano for an album titled EJ changing much from his usual register. A great guitarist in general remains a great guitarist regardless of the instrument used, electric or not.
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As for the previous two editions of the Holy Grail Guitar Show, the level of lutherie was extremely high so doing a selection among the 135 luthiers exhibiting was quite a challenge.
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Popa Chubby is quite a character so imagine doing an interview Guitar in Hand to talk about his latest album The Catfish.
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Joanne Shaw Taylor is a British musician now installed in the United-States who proposes a powerful Blues with her soulful voice and great guitar playing. Her latest album titled Wild is excellent.
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Here's Tobias Lund interview, luthier for TLL Guitars during the Holy Grail Guitar Show in 2015 where he was one of the exhibitor. Tobias website: www.tllguitars.com Tobias Lund interview (TLL guitars) during the Holy Grail Guitar Show Until the next interview from the Holy Grail Guitar Show or elsewhere, keep on playing the guitar! Pierre Journel. [cta_video]
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Luthier Sharleen Simmons interview at the Holy Grail Guitar Show
Sunday, 28 August 2016
Here's a luthier Sharleen Simmons interview recorded during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show.
Sharleen Simmons website: www.simmonscustomguitars.com
Luthier Sharleen Simmons interview during the Holy Grail Guitar Show
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Pierre.
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Gilad Hekselman is a Jazz guitar player discovered by The Guitar Channel thanks to Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert who is our official Jazz advisor.
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Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop. This year, the idea was to record a series of Luthier Chronicle with Michael to give a full visit of his luthier workshop and to have a better idea of the way he build his wonderful acoustic guitars.
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Francisco Rodriguez is a luthier I met at the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show. It happens he is not only a luthier but also a guitar tech once in a while. So he gets the experience of maintaining and managing the guitars he built on the road. Francisco is the guitar tech for the Dire Straits tribute band Brothers in band.
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Luthier Rainer Tausch interview during the Holy Grail Guitar Show
Sunday, 14 August 2016
Here's luthier Rainer Tausch interview done during the 2015 edition of the Holy Grail Guitar Show where he was exhibiting.
Rainer website: www.tausch-guitars.de
Luthier Rainer Tausch interview during the @HolyGrailGuitar Show
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Oscar Rosende is the lead guitar player and singer of the Dire Straits tribute band, Brothers in Band. I met him through his guitar tech Francisco Rodriguez who is also a luthier. Brothers in Band were in Paris to play La Cigale, a big concert hall. The way the band has mastered the Dire Straits repertoire is truly amazing.
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Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop. This year, the idea was to record a series of Luthier Chronicle with Michael to give a full visit of his luthier workshop and to have a better idea of the way he build his wonderful acoustic guitars.
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Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop.
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Here's a Japanese luthier Kaz Goto interview from Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars done during the Holy Grail Guitar Show in 2015.
Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars website: www.jerseygirlhg.com
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Joe Jackson and his band were part of the official indoor schedule of the 2016 edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival.
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Last year while The Guitar Channel was in Canada to cover the Montreal Jazz festival, we did a video interview with the master luthier Michael Greenfield in his wonderful workshop.
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Tommy Emmanuel was part of the indoor programmation of the Montreal Jazz Festival, a great opportunity to record a video interview Guitar in Hand with this major musician of the fingerstyle community.
Tommy's website: www.tommyemmanuel.com
Tommy Emmanuel interview during the Montreal Jazz Festival
The Guitar Channel archive about Tommy Emmanuel
Back in 2009, The Guitar Channel was then only an audio podcast, I have the opportunity to meet and interview Tommy at the New Morning in Paris. He was the very first major non-French speaking guitar player I had on the show.
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Here's Matt Schofield interview done during the 2016 Montreal Jazzfest. Matt had just arrived from Miami where he now lives. We talked for more than 30min about his life on the road, his views on the music business, his SVL Guitars and many more subjects.
Matt's website: www.mattschofield.com
Matt Schofield interview at the Montreal Jazzfest
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In 2013, The Guitar Channel interviewed Matt for the first time when he was promoting his Far As I Can See album.
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Here's a Belgium luthier Hilko Nackaerts interview recorded during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar show in Berlin.
Hilko website: www.hilkoguitars.com
Belgium luthier Hilko Nackaerts interview at the Holy Grail Guitar show
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Charlie Hunter interview, a 7-string guitar player at the Montreal Jazz Festival
Thursday, 07 July 2016
Discovered in the excellent podcast No Guitar Is Safe produced by Jude Gold, The Guitar Channel is very happy to present you with an interview with Charlie Hunter, a 7-string guitar player. This Guitar in Hand interview took place during the 2016 Montreal Jazz Festival before his concert. Charlie plays an electric guitar built by luthier John Traugott with 3 strings from a bass guitar and 4 string from a regular guitar.
This instrument allows Charlie to sounds like two musicians playing when there's only him.
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In January 2016, while The Guitar Channel was in California to cover the NAMM, the opportunity presented itself to not only do a factory visit at the Taylor Guitars El Cajon facility, but also do an in-depth interview with the founder Bob Taylor and record three video chronicles with the in-house master builder Andy Powers
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Here's an interview with an Iceland luthier, Gunnar Orn who was an exhibitor during the 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show in Berlin.
Gunnar Facebook page: www.facebook.com/OrnCustomGuitars
Iceland luthier Gunnar Orn interview at the Holy Grail Guitar show
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Here's Ana Popovic interview done in Paris to talk about her triple album called Trilogy. You have to admit that it takes a lot of courage to release a triple album nowadays. Ana proposes three different moods in those three CDs: Blues, Funk and Jazz. It's the second time I meet Ana, last time was in 2013 in audio, this time we did it in video.
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