New York Guitar Festival
The New York Guitar Festival is a music festival founded by radio host and author John Schaefer and musician, producer and curator David Spelman, who serves at the festival's Artistic Director. Since 1999, the festival "has been examining virtually every aspect of the guitar's musical personality," and has launched sister festivals in cities in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia. Festival events take place at venues including Carnegie Hall, The World Financial Center Winter Garden, The 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall, Joe's Pub, The Jazz Standard, Le Poisson Rougue, Flushing Town Hall, Makor, BB King Blues Club, The Monkey, Barbes, and The Apple Store, SoHo.
NYGF 2010: The festival commissioned scores by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver,Marc Ribot, James Blackshaw, Gyan Riley, David Bromberg, Steve Kimock, Alex de Grassi, and Chicha Libra, for classic silent films by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harry Everett Smith.
NYGF 2008: Premieres by Arthur Kampela and Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio.
NYGF 2006: New film scores, instrumental works, and multimedia collaborations by Bill Frisell,Daniel Lanois,Bryce Dessner,Dominic Frasca, Gyan Riley,Leni Stern, Henry Kaiser, Brandon Ross, and Alex de Grassi.
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