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Mike Sparber from Sylvan Music discusses Santa Cruz guitars, the retail guitar business, guitar picks and a whole lot more.

Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company talks about 45 years of custom guitar making and the beginnings of the boutique guitar market

Portland based mandolin player Tim Connell talks about his early influences, learning to read music and become a Master Choro player. Tim talks about his teaching methods and shares some very good tips and funny stories. Learn how brutal it is to be a kindergarten teacher of music and "close" the room. Find out more about Tim and his lessons here: timconnellmusic.com

Author, musician and technology magician Teja Greken from Peghead Nation talks about his career, music and on line learning. As the Senior Editor of Acoustic Guitar Magazine for 16 years, Teja might be the most connected person in the world acoustic guitars. Find out more about Teja here: www.tejagerken.com

Richard Hoover founder of Santa Cruz Guitar Company shares upcoming projects including new STRING styles. Richard goes into depth about "The Beginners Mind" and gives us a down to earth perspective on being better at what you do. Richard also goes into detail about building guitars for Tony Rice.

Designer, engineer and musician James May give the inside scoop on acoustic guitar pickups. Check out James and this amazing product, The Ultra Tonic Pickup and Tone Dexter here: http://jamesmayengineering.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3o5jkjj-KE

Frederico Ciosi Franciosi or Ciosi is an Acoustic guitarist flatpicker “Mediterranean” and singer endowed with a voice blues from the tones vintage amalgamates his own vocal style to the acoustic guitar that plays with mouth harmonica and table-neck. The repertoire of Ciosi founds him on original passages and on the reinterpretazione of the great teachers of the American folk where languages flatp...

Singer songwriter SONiA describes here Signature SCGC guitar, and talks about songwriting and life.

Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company answers some questions from the Santa Cruz Guitar Players Forum and gives an overview of the last couple of months

Scott Law talks about music and his life in music

Happy Traum, musician, author, video producer and educator talks about his life in the center of the folk music world

James Nash of the Waybacks talks about his guitars and set up, The creative process and playing music from his heart.

Keith describes his SCGC guitar along with his relationship to the song and the community

Richard Hoover recaps the last couple of months and talks about a virtual NAMM

Michael Gaither talks about songwriting, KPIG, the foundations of Americana music and his approach to Covid.

Jamie Stillway talks with Tad Laird and Richard Newman and living on an island and finding the songs with-in each guitar

Eric Skye talks about fiddle tunes, storm windows, and learning to play acoustic guitar at the highest level possible,

Catfish Keith talks about his life in the blues. He has over 200 YouTube videos. Catfish has been nominated for 13 Grammys and 4 Blues Music Awards. Catfish is a powerhouse that gets inside a song, finds the groove and then takes the listener on a magical journey. He has a new record out shortly called "Blues at Midnight".

Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company discusses construction and materials Santa Cruz acoustic guitar necks. Find out more information at Santa Cruz Guitar Players Forum.

NYC based jazz guitarist Lisa Liu talks about her love of music and working through a pandemic

Richard Hoover answers questions from the Santa Cruz Guitar Players Forum, to join the forum go to scgpforum.com

Adam Traum is a Santa Cruz Guitar Player, songwriter, video producer, instructor, devoted husband, father, dog lover with an amazing musical legacy. Here's Adam's 411, let's give him some support! Homespun artist page: https://www.homespun.com/instructors/... Patreon: AdamTraum My Indiegogo page: https://igg.me/at/adam-traum/x/139896... Soundcloud: adamtraummusic Homespun titles: Basic Mandolin fo...

Carolyn Sills takes center stage this month with a frank discussion of working and building custom acoustic guitars during Covid

Richard Hoover discusses the changes and the challenges to custom guitar making during a pandemic. This is our first video Podcast, we hope you enjoy it. Participating in today's Podcast are Richard Hoover, Tad Laird and Richard Newman, we hope you enjoy it.

Richard Hoover continues his discussion of what goes into choosing a top for an acoustic guitar