Acoustic Guitar Summit Concerts at the Lake Theater AGS has sold out its shows at the Lake Theater in Lake Oswego, Oregon, every time we’ve played here, so Dean has booked us for two consecutive nights this year! Tickets. Directions.
Acoustic Guitar Summit workshop at Boulevard Music!
SSOH (Shingle Springs Opera House) once again hosts AGS for a scintillating holiday show of outstanding fingerstyle guitar. Limited seating! To reserve a space and for directions, please contact David at dcthomas5256 @ gmail.com. (Delete the spaces when emailing him!) With a sell-out of this matinee show, a second show will be added that evening. Tickets at the door.
Acoustic Guitar Summit brings scintillating fingerstyle guitar chops and great trio arrangements to Boulevard Music for the first time!
Mark teaches Fingerstyle Blues – all levels!
The day after Thanksgiving Mark returns to the Holloran Winery in the Willamette Valley’s lovely rolling hills for three hours of guitar solos in the tasting room. Come enjoy Bill’s great wines (Tempranillo is a specialty) and listen to me play my decades-long list of guitar solos.
Ace fingerstyle guitarists Mark Hanson, Teja Gerken and Pete Madsen entertain at Timbre Folk & Baroque in Berkeley, California.
Understanding “Tri-tone Substitution” Note: This article references my bluesy rave-up fingerstyle arrangement of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” A video of me playing it in Santa Barbara in August, 2017, has been posted here on YouTube: The actual music starts at about 0:35. Perhaps you have come across the term “Tri-tone substitution” in your studies, and had a hard time understanding it. Here’s an easy way to understand tri-tone substitutions: Think of them simply as dominant-seventh chords resolving down a half step – F7, instead of B7, going to E, for example. Most of you use B7 to resolve […]
AGS returns to Walters Cultural Art Center in Hillsboro, Oregon!
Acoustic Guitar Summit in California!