Guitar Festival rocks La Conner
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May 16, 2018
MADE WITH PRIDE IN THE USA – And in Canada, too. The art of making guitars was on display in Maple Hall last weekend. Music filled the town for the second annual La Conner Guitar Festival. Over 1,500 attendees handled fine, handmade instruments from 52 luthiers who came from as far away as Montreal and New York state. – Photo courtesy of Susan White
The luthiers came to La Conner last weekend, setting up in Maple Hall for the second annual La Conner Guitar Festival. The bait set by festival organizers Shirley Makela and spouse Brent McElroy brought some 1,500 guitar playing enthusiasts from across the country for three days of workshops, cabarets, mini-concerts, concerts and an exhibit hall full of the finest hand crafted acoustic and electric guitars, harp guitars, mandolins and ukeleles made in North America.
Luthiers make stringed musical instruments. Fifty-two, from Alaska, provinces and states down the west coast, and across the c...
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