LINCOLN SQUARE — Guitar aficionados and music lovers can take pleasure in a three-day “guitar extravaganza” at Lincoln Sq.’s Outdated City College Of People Music that includes stay music, interactive workshops and guitar makers exhibiting off their creations.
Now in its fourth yr, Fretboard Summit kicks off 10 a.m. Thursday on the faculty, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave., and continues by means of Saturday night.
Tickets for the three-day occasion will be bought at this web site. Single-day passes for Friday and Saturday are $175 and three-day, all entry passes are priced at $425. Single-day tickets for simply the guitar gear showcase are additionally obtainable for $38.
This yr’s headliners embrace Lyle Lovett, taking part in 8 p.m. Saturday in a sold-out present; Cesar Rosas & The Chi-City Playboys; Dave Hill; Charlie Hunter performing with Ella Feingold; and Jonathan Stout and Eric McIntyre. Different featured performers embrace John Smith, Sofia Wolfson, Anna Vogelzang, Dylan Day, Harrison Whitford and Ryan Richter.
The occasion is a collaboration between the Outdated City College Of People and Fretboard Journal, a quarterly publication targeted on guitar tradition.
“There are different guitar reveals across the nation, however what we felt we might carry along with Fretboard Journal is a very deep music neighborhood domestically,” stated Daybreak Patch, Outdated City College’s senior director of operations. “And the power to host the occasion in our buildings, which aren’t an exhibition corridor or, you realize, convention middle, however a faculty and a venue the place we do actually enjoyable issues all yr spherical.”
Along with stay music, the three-day occasion will characteristic practically 80 guitar manufacturers and solo guitar builders, generally known as luthiers, showcasing their wares.
Thursday may also characteristic the 2025 Invitational Pinewood Derby, the place a couple of invited luthiers and different creators will put their woodworking abilities to the take a look at to design a pinewood derby automobile to race on the pageant, Patch stated.
California-based luthier Justin Motander Jones has additionally put in a “sound curtain” interactive expertise on the faculty for the three-day occasion, Patch stated.
“He’s constructed an immersive setting which you can stroll into. And you may see the within of a paddle and play a guitar immediately into the room and manipulate the area within the room,” Patch stated. “It sound mysterious and great and he assures me it’s going to be actually cool.”
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