New York Guitar Festival

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[1]. 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.

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Commissions and Premieres

NYGF 2010: The festival commissioned scores by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver[2], 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[3], Daniel Lanois[4], Bryce Dessner[5], Dominic Frasca, Gyan Riley[6], Leni Stern, Henry Kaiser, Brandon Ross, and Alex de Grassi.

Featured Performers

About John Schaefer

John Schaefer has hosted and produced the popular new-music radio program New Sounds since 1982. Schaefer's program was called "The #1 radio show for the Global Village" by Billboard magazine. He is also executive producer and host of the nationally-syndicated series Chamber Music New York. Since 1986, he has produced and hosted New Sounds Live, an annual series of live broadcast concerts devoted to many types of new, unusual and overlooked forms of music. Since 1991 he has produced and hosted WNYC's programs of classical performances, both in studio and in various concert halls. He has been heard regularly on the BBC, the ABC (Australia), Taipei Public Radio and Radio New Zealand. Schaefer's writings include New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music (Harper & Row, NY, 1987; Virgin Books, London, 1990); a biography of composer La Monte Young (in Sound and Light, Bucknell University Press, 1996); and Songlines: The Voice in World Music (Cambridge Companion to Singing, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2000). He was contributing editor for Spin and Ear magazines, and has written numerous articles and reviews. His liner notes appear on more than 100 recordings, ranging from The Music of Cambodia to recordings by Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, and Terry Riley.

In 2003 Schaefer joined an elite group of honorees when he was presented with the American Music Center's prestigious Letter of Distinction for his "substantial contributions to advancing the field of contemporary American music in the United States and abroad."

In May 2006, New York Magazine cited Schaefer as one of "the people whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York" in its Influentials issue[7].

About David Spelman

David Spelman was educated at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the New England Conservatory. In addition to his work with the New York Guitar Festival, he works as a music supervisor in the film industry[8] and serves as an artistic advisor to festivals at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Australia’s Adelaide Festival Centre, and Toronto’s Luminato Festival.

As a visual arts curator, David has organized gallery exhibits by photographers Ralph Gibson, Danny Clinch, Andy Summers, Jack Vartoogian, Steve Sherman, Rahav Segev, and Hank O'Neal. He has also organized an exhibition of vintage music posters by Milton Glaser.

David created several concert tributes to landmark record albums. In 2004 he produced the Blood on the Tracks Project, a concert at New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic Bob Dylan album[9]. The event was broadcast live on WFUV and as a two-hour radio special, syndicated to over fifty NPR affiliates. His 2006 Nebraska Project, featured a wide range of performers, including Dan Zanes, Michelle Shocked, The National, Chocolate Genius,Martha Wainwright, and Bruce Springsteen, and received extensive press coverage, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, Billboard, and Pitchfork. The concert was filmed, with Fugazi’s Brendan Canty directing, for future DVD release. In 2007 his two-night American Beauty Project included performances by Jay Farrar, The Holmes Brothers, Sex Mob, Jim Lauderdale, Ollabelle, Dar Williams, and the Klezmatics, drew capacity crowds at New York’s Winter Garden, has toured to several cities in North America, and in January 2009 had a repeat performance at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the American Songbook series.

In 2005 and 2006 David served as curator of Other Words/Other Worlds, a festival celebrating National Jazz and Poetry Month at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York. The festival featured workshops, film screenings, musical performances, and a 24-hour poetry jam session. Musicians who performed included Matthew Shipp, The Nat Jones Trio, Peter Apfelbaum, Chris Cheek, as well as local high-school jazz ensembles. Readings included Spanish, Russian, Korean and Chinese poets, a second grade poetry club, and poets Everton Sylverton, Bob Holman, and Hal Sirowitz.

In the early 1990’s David served as the music director and co-producer of Third Friday Respite, a series of literary readings and classical music at Manhattan’s Church of the Advent Hope. Highlights included a reading of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters as well as a year-long, complete reading of John Milton’s epic 17th century poem Paradise Lost[10].

In the 1980s, David trained in acoustic guitar design and construction under luthier Jeff Trougott.

Guitar Harvest

Guitar Harvest is a two-CD recording produced by David Spelman and John Schaefer in 2003, featuring Andy Summers, Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, Ralph Towner, Henry Kaiser, Alex de Grassi and other artists. Mojo gave it a four-star review, saying “This largely acoustic set is guaranteed to leave guitar buffs drooling,” while Total Guitar noted that “Not only does it feature some of the most astonishing guitar playing we’ve heard all year… but all proceeds go to buying guitars and guitar lessons for inner city kids.”

Notes

  1. ^ "The festival with strings attached" The Age 5 June 2007
  2. ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/673fa6c4-09d6-11df-8b23-00144feabdc0.html
  3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/arts/music/31fris.html?_r=2
  4. ^ http://www.nypress.com/article-12892-finding-his-groove.html
  5. ^ http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/arts/music/18guit.html
  6. ^ http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/arts/music/18guit.html
  7. ^ http://nymag.com/news/features/influentials/16903/
  8. ^ http://www.vidalsassoonthemovie.com/music.php
  9. ^ http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2004/06/28
  10. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/nyregion/playing-in-the-neighborhood-yorkville-with-words-and-music-deviltry-in-church.html?pagewanted=1

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