The Winters Guitar Fest hosts Mark for a weekend of luthier exhibits, concerts and workshops. The 2018 schedule will be online shortly. Here is the 2017 information so you can check it out: Information.
Workshop at 4:00 PM. Prior to their evening concert at Gary Mandell’s Boulevard Music in Southern California, Mark Hanson, Doug Smith and Terry Robb—two Grammy winners and a Blues Hall of Fame fingerpicker—present a hands-on fingerstyle guitar workshop at the store. All three are wonderful teachers as well as players. For fingerpickers at every level! Info: (310) 398-2583. Tickets | Directions
Mark plays two hours of his guitar solos for a green energy firm in downtown Portland.
Mark and Greta provide the music for a wedding in the lovely Portland-area hamlet of Silverton. The beautiful waterfalls of Silver Falls State Park are close by
Mark teaches Fingerstyle Blues - all levels!
Mark and Greta join Mark’s early “Waterwheel” partner Fred Cummins for music during the morning service at Foothills Congregational Church in Los Altos, California. Directions
On Saturday, October 27, brilliant English fingerstyle guitarist Clive Carroll - the late John Renbourn's protege who tours with Tommy Emmanuel - joins Mark and Greta for a scintillating fingerstyle guitar and vocal concert at the Multnomah Friends Meeting House, 4312 SE Stark in Portland, second floor - wheelchair accessible with elevator. Directions Advanced tickets through Eventbrite. $25.00 at the door. For further information: Call Accent On Music at (503) 699-1814.
British fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Clive Carroll - who tours with Tommy Emmanuel - presents a fingerstyle guitar workshop in West Linn, Oregon. Not to be missed! For fingerstyle guitarists of all levels. Clive is a fun, engaging personality, and a wonderful teacher. Location provided with ticket sale. Info: (503) 699-1814. Tickets
The Portland Guitar Society features a local performer at its monthly meetings, which occur on the first Monday of each month. I will play for them on November 5. (Get out and vote the next day!!) To become a PGS member--a worthy organization of classical and fingerstyle players-- costs only $20 for an annual membership. Find them online here.
AGS kicks off its annual holiday shows on Friday, November 30, with this fun event at Meridian UCC (“Frog Pond”) church in Wilsonville, just south of Portland, Oregon. The church is one block west of the traffic signal at Stafford/Boeckman/Wilsonville/Advance roads. Tickets. Location: 6750 SW Boeckman Road, Wilsonville - Directions.