LINKS
PERFORMERS
CHRIS MORETON
Britain's top flat pick guitarist and all round nice guy. A good friend of the club.
THE AMIGOS
Wales' premier hot club trio/quintet.
DYLAN FOWLER
Wales' top roots guitarist.
A virtuoso who's eclectic style incorporates jazz, Latin American,
Celtic and Eastern European influences.
BOB EVANS
One of Canada's premier acoustic guitarists. Due to visit the club in 2003.
DUCK BAKER
One of America's finest finger style guitarists. Played at the club in September 2002
MAGENTA
Magenta, a superb South Wales based progressive rock band
featuring our honorary president, Chris Fry on guitar.
CHARTISTS
New website featuring the Chartists Folk Rock Band
PETE SMITH and JOHN BUCKLEY
An excellent acoustic duo featuring Pete Smith and John Buckley, two seriously talented fingerstyle and flatpick guitarists playing a mixture of Jazz, country, swing, blues, ragtime, folk and their own self penned originals
ERIC ROCHE
One of the U.K.'s leading fingerstyle guitarists
WIZZ JONES
Wizz Jones is one of the remarkable individuals of the English folk-blues scene.
An outstanding acoustic guitarist, singer-songwriter and blues man.
DANIELE BAZZANI
Chet Atkins influenced Italian virtuoso. Best know for his transcriptions of Tommy Emmanuel’s work
JACQUES STOTZEM
Belgian guitarist who is one of European acoustic guitar’s most respected figures
PETER FINGER
Germany’s finest guitarist and one of the most impressive guitar virtuosos on the Planet. Founder of the excellent Acoustic Music Records –see link below
MARTIN SIMPSON
Britain’s leading folk blues guitarist and one of the most well highly regarded folk and roots musicians in the world.
CLAUDE BOURBON
Excellent British based French bluesman
ROD FOGG
English jazz and fingerstyle guitarist. Highly regarded for his excellent workshops and entertaining style of playing
JOHN RENBOURN
One of the world's foremost acoustic guitarists who has made the "folk-baroque” style of playing his own.
JOHN GOLDIE
John Goldie is a Scottish jazz guitar virtuoso who is best known for his work with Martin Taylor in 'Spirit of Django'.
CONTRABAND
South Wales based early music ensemble featuring baroque guitar, oud, lute, hammered dulcimer, recorders, hurdy-gurdy, english bagpipes, shawm, percussion and more in programmes of medieval, renaissance, Baroque and seasonal music
KEITH CHRISTMAS
Seminal 1970s British singer-songwriter, bluesman and acoustic guitarist.
STEVE TILSTON
One of the UK's finest young solo guitarists.
TRISTAN SEUME
One of the UK's leading singer-songwriters and acoustic guitarists.
JON AIRDRIE
Talented local singer-songwriter and leader of excellent south Wales acoustic band 'The Shelleys'
GARETH PEARSON
Britain's most talented young acoustic guitarist
BOYS FROM THE HILL
BFTH are a trio who mix guitars with bouzoukis and play a mixture of Welsh, English and Balkan traditional songs and instrumentals.
SILD
Sild are a duo of guitar/bouzouki and fiddle/bowed lyre who play a mixture of music from Wales and the Baltic regions.
STUART RYAN
Award-winning solo fingerstyle guitarist
JON GOMM
Innovative virtuoso acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter
ALLEGRIA
Excellent Newport based gypsy jazz and rumba trio
MIKE SILVER
Outstanding Cornwall based singer-songwriter
NEWPORT FOLK CLUB
Our nearest acoustic music club
PONTARDAWE ACOUSTIC MUSIC CLUB
ALLAN YN A FAN
South East Wales leading celtic music band
CLUBS, SOCIETIES AND LISTINGS
SOUTH WALES GUITAR SOCIETY
A classical guitar society which meets once a month at the Norwegian Arts Centre in Cardiff Bay
CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETIES DIRECTORY
Links to classical guitar clubs in the U.K.
GUITAR FOUNDATION LINKS
Links to guitar societies worldwide
TAPLAS
Wales and the Marches essential roots magazine and listings
SUTTON ACOUSTIC GUITAR CLUB
Maurice Dolphin's excellent guitar club at Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
SLIM'S BLUES
Gordon Wride's excellent blues site centred on blues activities in the Swansea area.
FEDERATION OF GUITAR SOCIETIES
New UK organisation centered on Martin Shaw's Greenwood Classical Guitar Society in Middlesex which seeks to link up all UK guitar (and lute) societies. Mainly classical in orientation.
FINGERS AND THUMBS ACOUSTIC GUITAR SOCIETY
Fingers and Thumbs Acoustic Guitar Society run by David Whyte. The society specialises in Jazz, Blues, Classical, Ragtime, Country Picking. Situated in Nottingham.
PLATFORM FOLK CLUB
Local folk club run by Laurence Eddy and Wynford Jones.
MAIL ORDER ACOUSTIC GUITARS, C.D.'s
ACOUSTIC MUSIC RECORDS
German based guitarist Peter Finger's outstanding acoustic music record label.
Recording artists include Duck Baker, Jacques Stotzem, Dylan Fowler and Peter Finger
Outstanding on-line catalogue and mail order service
GUITARCDS.net
wide choice of acoustic, celtic, folk, jazz guitar cds for sale direct from the artist
ACOUSTIC MUSIC RESOURCE
Another excellent acoustic guitar recording company.
Very good on-line catalogue and mail order service. Arrives in days from the U.S.A.
AVANDEL GUITARS
Sheila and Russell Rose produce custom build acoustic guitars from their base in Garnant, just outside Ammanford