Links

Instrument Makers & Luthiers

• Goodall Guitar (www.goodallguitars.com) - great instruments with an almost mythical sound.
• Kinnaird Guitar (www.kinnairdguitars.com) - one of the best luthiers out there now, very responsive to customer suggestions and more than fairly priced for the quality of instrument he produces.
• Steve Kovacik guitar repair (www.guitar-repair.com) - if mine needs it, that’s where it goes.
• CS Martin (www.martinguitar.com) - great classic guitars since 1833.
• National Guitar (www.nationalguitars.com) - made the good oldies and now a new company, who uses the same name is making the good new resophonic guitars.
• Keith Young autoharps (http://members.cox.net/keithyoungdulcimers) - made mine and still makes them for others. Recommended, obviously.

Music Dealers

• Bernunzio Vintage Instruments (www.bernunzio.com)- you want banjos; he’s got banjos, hundreds of them + other instruments, all vintage.
• Buffalo Brothers (www.buffalobrosguitars.com)- sold me my Goodall. Huge selection and they know what quality is.
• Cathedral Music (www.cathedralmusic.com)- local dealer in fine, hand-crafted instruments.
• Elderly Instruments (www.elderly.com)- they sell everything, and have lots of it.
• Mandolin Brothers (www.mandoweb.com)- thousands of vintage and hand-crafted new instruments in stock
• Medley Music (www.medleynet.com)- another shop that sells the finest.
• Plaide Palette (www.plaidepalette.com)- if it’s Irish, they have it.

Local Musicians

• Annie & Hedonists (http://home.nycap.rr.com/anniehedonists) - friends for decades now, a variety of jazz-tinged and obscure or fogotten songs, beautifully sung.
• Barefoot Boys (www.richbala.com/BarefootBoys.htm) - fiddle tunes and regional music.
• Bill Ackerbauer (http://hometown.aol.com/smokinbill) - I play with him sometimes. We share an amazing symmetry of repertoire and interest.
• Kim & Reggie Harris (www.kimandreggie.com) - what smiles! History, protest, with sunshine.
• SunDial Express (www.sundialexpress.com) - more friends; we play together about once a month.
• Sun Mountain Fiddler (www.sunmountainfiddler.com) - another great entertainer, plays all kinds of music.
• Valley Bog Players (http://valleybog.prometheus.to) - our Irish band, the best ever, naturally.
• Frank Wakefield (www.mossware.com/FrankLesn.html) - the greatest mandolinist and unique individual. I am proud to call him a friend.
• George Ward (www.mulesong.com) - plays everything. He is the one to turn to for local musical history.
• Glenn Weiser (www.celticguitarmusic.com) - local guitarist and harmonica player with special expertise for fiddle tunes, blues and Celtic music. His website has lots of neat links.

Venues

• Caffe Lena (www.caffelena.com) - American’s oldest continuously running coffeehouse. We are fortunate to have it ony an hour away.
• Canajoharie Library & Art Gallery (www.clag.org) - truly local, and a gem for music as well as the American paintings for which they are famed.
• Dance Flurry (www.danceflurry.org) - held in Saratoga in February. Dancing, dancing, dancing - all to live music and plenty left over for listening to or to jam with.
• Friend’s Meeting House (Click for contact info) - on Madison Avenue in Albany, a song circle that meets Sunday evenings, year-round.
• Gates Hill (www.sonnyochs.com) - Concert series often featuring songwriters.
• Golding Park Cafe (www.goldingparkcafe.com) - local winter concert series held in a coffeehouse.
• Great American Irish Festival (www.greatamericanirishfestival.com) - lots and lots of Irish, and LOUD.
• Music on Mainstreet (www.musiconmainstreet.com) - Obviously biased, I feel it is the best of the small town free summer music series.
• Old Songs (www.oldsongs.org) - sponsor concerts throughout the year and the big festival in June. You’ll find me there.
• PSG (www.pickingandsinging.org) - Pickin’ and Singin’ Gatherin’ - welcomes all. These folks know how to sing!
• Schoharie Presbyterian Church (Click for contact info)- winter concert series, often features songwriters plus a song circle on Tuesdays, September through June.

Also Important in My Life

• IOCA (www.ioca.org) - The Intercollegiate Outing Club Association
• Mort Wimple Associates (www.farmsunlimited.com) - country real estate, been with him since 1981.
• NSS (www.caves.org) - National Spelelological Society - if you want to know about caves, this is the place to go.