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Special Offer - Michael Messer

Born in Middlesex, Michael Messer is a critically acclaimed blues guitarist, and one of only 3 guitarists to be graced with sleeve notes written by the late great Johnny Cash. It is his words that sum up this Great British Bluesman best

"What I hear here is the real thing - Bare-bones blues gut-bucket rural rock"
PS...Don't squeeze the trigger, if you can't stand the recoil.” Johnny Cash

Special Offer - Wizz Jones

Cited by John Renbourn and Eric Clapton as an important early influence Wizz Jones has been a renowned guitarist on the folk and blues scene for the past 45 years. His groundbreaking style and touching lyrics have earned him many fans and with his unique guitar style, an eclectic repertoire and "a right hand worthy of Broonzy". Featuring folk giant Martin Carthy interviewing and performing alongside Wizz...This DVD is a must have for any folk fan.

Special Offer - John Etheridge

March’s Special Offer is the magical John Etheridge DVD.

John Etheridge is one of the greatest Jazz Guitarist you will meet. He manages to capture the mood whenever he plays and Performing live in our studio was no exception. John had everyone transfixed from the moment he picked up one of his many guitars. We also get to know about John himself with fantastic stories from a massive musical career.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic offer.

For the month of March just £9.99.

Special Offer - Martin Simpson

Martin Simpson’s DVD is on special offer for the month of February.

Recorded live in the Coach House, this DVD captures Martin Simpson at his best. Nominated at this years folk awards for Best Musician.

Like his friend and fellow Martin, Martin Carthy, still plays the British folk club circuit as eagerly as the grandest music rooms that the world of music can offer. Please go and see him live if you can.
Fantastic***** Just £9.99

Special Offer - Gordon Giltrap

Gordon Giltrap, is an amazing guitarist whose guitar playing is heavenly, Gordon Giltraps pure talent is something to behold. On this particular DVD he manages to show us an array of styles and kindly brought along some of his much cherished collection including a double necked electric guitar. Each of the pieces is played with passion and leaves you with a sense of well being. The conversations between Trevor Dann(Presenter) and Gordon are fascinating and give a true insight into Gordon Giltraps musical career.

This DVD has the benefit of 9 Additional tracks plus a superb must see bonus feature. All tracks are all performed live in the Sound Techniques studio. Tracks include Sallie’s Song, Appalachian Dreaming and the legendary Heartsong plus many many more. For full track listing click on the DVD.

Happy Christmas!!!!

This Month we have the Martin Carthy DVD on special offer at Just £9.99… On this DVD Martin Carthy performs some brilliant pieces of music such as Lovely Joan, Georgie and the The Devil and the Feathery wife. Martin speaks with Trevor Dann about his life in the music scene, and his passion for Folk music and his much loved guitars. His performances are captivating and will live with you forever.

This DVD is a must for any folk!!

Only £9.99 - Throughout December.

Steve Tilston Octobers DVD special Offer.

October's DVD special offer is the talented singer/song writer Steve Tilston. This is a brilliant insight into a musician whose career started some 30 years ago. Steve is well known for his song writing ability. Check out on this DVD the brilliant live performance of "The Naked Highwayman", and "Here's to Tom Paine". Grab this offer while we still have them available.

Steve will be playing live on Wednesday 8th October in Halifax at the Victoria Theatre. If you get a chance go and see him you will not be disappointed.

Look out for the Xmas Guitar Maestros box collection next month.

This months (September) special offer from the Guitar Maestros series is the fantastic Big Jim Sullivan DVD. This is a must for all guitar fans and also features rhythm guitarist Doug Pruden.

Big Jim Sullivan is an English musician, whose career started in 1959. Best known as a session guitarist, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s and has performed on more than one thousand charting singles over his career.

As well as amazing guitar work this DVD captures a true insight into a working musicians life. Brilliant!!

Special Offer
Each month we will have a special offer on one of the DVD’s in the Guitar Maestros series. August’s special offer is the Michael Messer DVD- JUST £9.99

Look out for September’s offer displayed on the right hand side of our home page. These will be available by telephone order please call 01284 778 787...............

We will also be running a Guitar Maestros DVD collectors offer Details out soon!

This offer is only available through our website

Congratulations to Michael Messer on the launch of his two new resonator guitars

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With over thirty years experience of playing, collecting & reviewing resonator guitars, Michael Messer has been working with a small guitar workshop and UK importer to create what he believes are the most authentic & playable 1930s style resonator guitars at an affordable and realistic price.

The body dimensions, neck profile, headstock, spun aluminium cone & set-up will give the player the classic tone, volume & feel of a 1930s metal-bodied resonator guitar. Michael believes these are the only budget priced resonator guitars available that can boast these features.

Congratulations
Congratulations to all those who won at Monday nights BBC2 Folk awards, Huge congratulations especially to Guitar Maestro Martin Simpson who won Best Album for Prodigal Son and Best Original Song for Never Any Good...both are truly deserved

Happy new year, to ease you into 2008 we are continuing our offer of all DVD's in the Guitar Maestro and Piano Maestros collection reduced to £14.99 each plus postage so grab yourself one of these stunning DVDs to watch on these cold winter nights or even order as an early Valentines gift for a loved one.

Congratulations Martin Simpson
Congratulations are in order to Guitar Maestro Martin Simpson, Nominated for an incredible 5 BBC Folk awards. The winners are announced Monday 4 February 2008 with Martin in the running for the following FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR BEST ALBUM -Prodigal Son BEST ORIGINAL SONG - Never Any Good BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK-Andrew Lammie MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR Martin will also be performing on Later with Jools Holland on Friday 14th December BBC 11.35pm...be sure to tune in!

COMING SOON
On sale soon, Two new Piano Maestros. The legendary Peter Katin and the extraordinarily talented Yuki Negishi

ON SALE NOW!!!!
On sale now..our brand new John Etheridge DVD!!

Piano Maestro's
Our new DVD series, Piano Maestro's launches 15th May 2007. The first two DVD’s in the series feature classical pianists Angela Brownridge and Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, click the Piano Maestros button at the top of this page for more info on this innovative series

Congratulations
Congratulations to Guitar Maestro John Etheridge; nominated for Musician of the Year in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. 24th April 2007

Gordon Giltrap DVD -ON SALE NOW!

Congratulations
Congratulations to Guitar Maestro Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – winners of BEST DUO at BBC Radio 2’s Folk Awards 2007

New Signing!!!
We are pleased to announce our next Guitar Maestro will be none other than the outstanding Jazz legend John Etheridge. John Etheridge enjoys a glowing reputation throughout the jazz world and beyond and has rightly been described as "One of the best guitarists in the world". He has toured with both the magnificent Stephan Grappelli and the legendary jazz-fusion group Soft Machine. As well as being a superb electric guitar player, John is equally at home playing acoustically and as recently formed a duo with John Williams. We are looking forward to welcoming John as Guitar Maestro number 9 Guitar Maestros -John Etheridge will be available to buy from March 07