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

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.

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.

AGS continues its annual holiday shows with an always-sold-out show at the historic Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield, Washington, a short distance north of Portland along the Columbia River. 115 North Main Avenue. (360) 887-7260.  Tickets. Directions.