The Portland Guitar Society is a 33-year old association of local musicians, aficionados, guitar makers, and like-minded people who love the guitar and support guitar music in all its forms. We meet at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis Street, Portland, the first Monday of every month (or the second, depending on some holidays: please refer to our website for the January, July, and September dates). Meetings are from 7:00 to 9:30 PM, and are always free and open to the public, and all ages are welcome. PGS supports all styles of music and all skill levels. At any meeting, expect to hear classical, jazz, blues, flamenco, fingerstyle, Nashville picking, ensembles, vocal accompaniment, and more. Come to play, or just come to listen. It's an open-mike format with a featured performer the last half-hour. For more information visit: www.pdxguitarsociety.org
Admission $5, Children Under 12 Free
Free Parking
Free Parking
Join us for our 45th annual exhibit celebrating the wealth and diversity of handmade musical instruments here in the Pacific Northwest. Expect to see guitars of all kinds, the violin family, mandolins, banjos, dulcimers, Native American flutes, drums, keyboards, organs, medieval instruments, wood suppliers, and much more. Meet the makers, see and play their instruments, and hear performances all weekend long.
Visit our website for a list of the exhibitors and their instruments with links to their websites, a schedule of performances, and directions to the exhibit: www.nwmusicalinstrumentshow.org. Also, follow "Northwest Musical Instrument Show" on Facebook and @nwmusicalinstrumentshow on Instagram.
Visit our website for a list of the exhibitors and their instruments with links to their websites, a schedule of performances, and directions to the exhibit: www.nwmusicalinstrumentshow.org. Also, follow "Northwest Musical Instrument Show" on Facebook and @nwmusicalinstrumentshow on Instagram.
Summer 2020
The Guild of American Luthiers
23rd Convention/Exhibition
July 22—26, 2020
Tacoma, WA
Pacific Lutheran University
A Great and Glorious Festival of Lutherie
• Instrument Exhibition • Concerts • Informative Lectures •
• Hands-on Demonstrations • Traffic in Lutherie Materials •
• Old Friends • People You Want To Meet •
The original great and glorious festival of lutherie, often copied but never duplicated, the Guild of American Luthiers Convention/Exhibition is legendary and highly anticipated in the lutherie community. It’s another avenue the Guild uses to bring together luthiers from everywhere, of all specialties and skill levels, seasoned pros and part-timers, in a spirit of cooperation and camaraderie.
It features four-and-a-half days of stimulating educational lectures, demonstrations, and workshops presented by respected luthiers on a wide range of topics of interest to the lutherie community; an exhibition of member instruments where members have an opportunity to show their creations and receive feedback from their fellow luthiers; sale of lutherie woods, tools, and supplies; three nights of concerts and open mikes; and the much anticipated GAL Benefit Auction. Visit www.luth.org for details.
