Mix Grammy-winning guitarist Mark Hanson with Young Audiences’ National Artist of the Year Greta Pedersen, add Diana Ross keyboardist/jazz great George Mitchell, and you have the recipe for a fabulous evening of music. The husband-and-wife team celebrates the recent release of their duo album “Then & Now” with a concert on Saturday, March 4, at Tabor Space at 5441 SE Belmont in Portland. Tickets for the 7:00 p.m. concert are $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. Advance tickets are available through their company website www.AccentOnMusic.com, or by calling their office at 503-699-1814. Seating is limited to 125.
Mark visits one of his favorite places – the Dusty Strings store in the Fremont District of Seattle – on Saturday, April 29, for fingerstyle guitar workshops from 10:30-12:30 and 1:30-3:30. Each workshop is $40.00. You’ll have plenty of material to take home with you afterward! To register, please call the store at (206) 634-1662. Topics: #1) Beg/Int Fingerpicking – Mark’s new approach to Travis Picking – play it in one minute! Play it even better after two hours with Mark! #2) Int/Adv Fingerpicking – Improve your mechanics (smoothness, tone), and learn to play with heart (interpretation and understanding). Plus Mark will […]
Every time that Mark, Doug and Terry have played at the Lake Theater Café in Lake Oswego it has sold out! It’s an intimate venue, so make sure to get your tickets in advance! Address: 106 No. State Street. (503) 387-3236. Venue Website | Directions
Mark, Doug and Terry present their ‘Holiday Show Plus’ in an intimate house concert in Sacramento, not far from the state capitol. The venue is a newly restored downtown mansion built in 1897. For details and/or reservations, please contact Carolyn at: carolynbecker2 @ gmail.com, or call (916) 769-7976.
Mark and Greta sing and play during the church service at Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Avenue in Los Altos. Directions
Benefit concert for Vancouver guitarist Mark Martin.
DENNIS MURPHY, of Dateline NBC, is a fingerstyle guitarist and fan of the genre. A question came to me from Dennis that others have asked as well, so I will use it for a ‘Tip From Mark.” Thanks, Dennis! CONSECUTIVE PULL-OFFS: My arrangement of Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the ‘A’ Train”, published in Great American Songbook for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar, starts with a famous, chromatically descending riff. As recorded, I play it in first position, picking the first string/4th fret (a G#), and pulling off each fret down to the open E string. (I have a new way of playing it up one […]
Mark Hanson and Terry Robb rip it up in Hillsboro, Ore.
Mark and Greta perform in a private concert for the Terwilliger Plaza retirement community. It’s always fun with these folks!
The Shingle Springs Opera House hosts AGS twice on December 10, the second show at 7:30 p.m. AGS set attendance records at SSOH during their December, 2014 shows, so we are looking forward to returning! To reserve seats, contact David by email at: dcthomas5256 @ gmail.com. Directions are provided at that time
