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Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Announces Dates for 2013

The Fifth Annual 2013 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase (and Tonewood Festival), to be held October 25, 26 & 27, 2013.

Woodstock, NY (March 12, 2013) – Announcing the Fifth Annual 2013 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase (and Tonewood Festival), to be held October 25, 26 & 27, 2013, at the Bearsville Theater and Utopia Soundstage, 291 & 293 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498. The Woodstock Invitational is an alternative guitar show, featuring fine, contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments, exhibited by their makers.

The Fifth Annual Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase is an intimate gathering for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados, and has become one of the premier events of its kind in North America. Fine, handmade acoustic instruments such as these are not usually available in music stores or other retail environments. This is a rare opportunity for the public to see, hear, play, buy or commission custom-made instruments - the finest examples of the luthiers’ art - gathered together in one place. Nylon-string classical and flamenco guitars, steel- string guitars - flattops, archtops, manouche, resonators, hybrids - plus mandolins, lutes, ouds, ukuleles, banjos, and stringed oddities will be on display in the Bearsville Theater. Other vendors include tonewood dealers, parts and tool suppliers, string and accessories manufacturers, publications and instructional materials, our Sponsors, plus a Special Exhibit of rare and significant historic, vintage and contemporary instruments loaned by major collectors, all right next door to the Bearsville Theater in the Utopia Soundstage Vendors Annex. Also in the Vendors Annex, in conjunction with Northwind Timber, is Tonewood Festival, a pre-Showcase shopping opportunity featuring a number of fine tonewood dealers, open to the public with free admission on Friday October 25, and included in the price of admission Saturday and Sunday October 26 & 27.

There is continuous live music, including luthier mini-concerts, demos and special appearances throughout Friday and Saturday, by some of the nation’s finest musicians, in the Bearsville Theater Lounge, included in the price of admission. There will also be a series of instructional clinics and workshops for players, plus seminars and colloquia for builders, by separate admission. Plus our annual String Sampler Concert of acoustic music featuring internationally-known artists, venue and details to be announced.

The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase is nationally advertised in the guitar press, locally promoted in regional journals and papers, and draws attendees from the populous heart of the northeastern seaboard. The 2012 Woodstock Invitational featured 54 exhibitors, and drew approximately 1500 attendees, before Hurricane Sandy sent everyone scurrying home.

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