"wonderful presentation and performance! It was so inspiring!"
-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society (2023)
-Hilary Field, Seattle Classic Guitar Society (2023)
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January 2025, Happy New Year!
Dec. - A warm thank you to everybody at SCGS, all the performers and volunteers, and the full house for a great 2024 holiday concert! A special thank you to Elizabeth CD Brown, so nice to share lunch, a couple rehearsals, and our performance of the Shostakovich! Thank you Mark Wilson for the photo!
Friday, 12/13, 7:30pm, 2024 Seattle Classic Guitar Society Fundraising Concert, Faith Lutheran Church, 8208 18th Ave. NE - Looking forward to a great evening of guitar music with wonderful friends, playing with my long-time duo partner, colleague, and friend Elizabeth CD Brown, playing my arrangement of a beautiful Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue, go to the SCGS website for more info, See you there!
Sunday, November 17, 2024, 1-3:30pm, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Anacortes, WA
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Dr. Stephen Howland - “Borrowing from Bach,” hosted by Jamie Findlay. Howland will share his love of exploring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural concepts found in the music of Bach as material to play with in jazz improvisation and practice. Students will get to focus on using small musical motives (figures) built around embellished target tones, using stepwise approaches, neighboring tones, enclosures, and arpeggios. They’ll learn how to use these figures to anticipate and stress harmonic choices in common chord progressions and jazz standards, and add further interest by exploring options of melodic and harmonic development, through ideas like repetition, sequence, inversion, imitation, and rhythmic displacement.
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Dr. Stephen Howland - “Borrowing from Bach,” hosted by Jamie Findlay. Howland will share his love of exploring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural concepts found in the music of Bach as material to play with in jazz improvisation and practice. Students will get to focus on using small musical motives (figures) built around embellished target tones, using stepwise approaches, neighboring tones, enclosures, and arpeggios. They’ll learn how to use these figures to anticipate and stress harmonic choices in common chord progressions and jazz standards, and add further interest by exploring options of melodic and harmonic development, through ideas like repetition, sequence, inversion, imitation, and rhythmic displacement.
June - Great gig last night playing for the Seattle Luthiers Group, featuring steel and nylon acoustic guitars built by members! Much gratitude to gregory scott, jay de rocher, john parchem, tahle patton, laird o’rollins, robert hinrix,… wonderful instruments, fun evening! Sorry to not take any photos and report my video camera failed. Look forward to doing this again!
March - Wonderful 2024 PLU Guitar Festival weekend, much gratitude to Elizabeth CD Brown, our awesome guests Stella Kosim, Elliott Turner, EJ Crocker, all the great students, everyone from Chiawana High School under the fantastic direction Charith Bagley, PLU, Seattle Classic Guitar Society, Seattle Jazz Guitar Society, our Volunteers,…!
