Newport Guitar Festival 2010 Dates Announced
September 3, 2009
APRIL 16 – 18, 2010
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Greetings from the Newport Guitar Festival in South Florida!
The Festival will be held April 16-18, 2010 at the amazing Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.
The Seminole Hard Rock has a huge “campus” setting with a modern Hotel ballroom and meeting rooms, and amazing indoor, climate controlled, stadium attached called the Hard Rock Live, along with more than a dozen restaurants, a Casino filled with vintage acoustic and electric guitars, all kinds of shops, and lounges set up for live performances which we will be using as well.
The Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, in short, is Guitar Central. In future years they are even adding another hotel in the shape of a guitar with a thousand more rooms. The campus has free parking for thousands upon thousands of visitors and exhibitors, and it is minutes away from modern, clean hotels with which we have negotiating special rates for our out of town visitors.
The Hard Rock is only ten minutes from the Fort Lauderdale Airport, so this venue is convenient for exhibitors, out-of-town guests, and is right in between Miami and the Palm Beaches, where we draw from a population of six million, made up of some of the nation’s most affluent guitar enthusiasts and collectors.
We will have the Modern Masters that are the mainstay of our show, along with vintage collections and enough room to divide acoustic and electric instruments, as well as high end amplifiers and accessories which the public expects to see at a show like this.
We will have special exhibitions such as Denis Merrill’s Sonic Sitka exhibition, a special Blue Electric Guitar Exhibition to commemorate the late Scott Chinery’s Smithsonian Exhibit. Ans as usual, we will have the best builders and instruments from around the world, and will have mini-concert demonstrations from the world’s best musicians. Many of you have seen the concerts in which we are putting up on YouTube and linking to our site, and this effort will be doubled so that every performance from every builder will be uploaded almost immediately after the show, while we will continue with photographing the instruments for the Blue Book and for the use of any luthiers who wants them. This year we will also be having live broadcasts and a host of other benefits you would expect from a show that has builders at its heart.
And, of course, there will be no ticket price increases from 2008 and you can expect even more for your dollar. Watch our website, www.newportguitarfest.com, check out the Seminole Hard Rock link, and watch your email for more information.
To the trade, in the meantime, let us know if you have special projects, instruments, or promotions you want to link with us, sign up on our site to reserve your spot and to make sure we have all your info, and we will be talking to you soon.
Register here –> www.newportguitarfest.com/2010registrationform.pdf
To those who want to attend and see all the eye candy, TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW at Ticketmaster, and het Hard Rock Live box office in Hollywood.
Hope to seel you all in April!!
Henry Lowenstein, Eric Garcia, and Ron Hill
Master luthier Denis Merrill will be displaying the initial results of his Sonic Sitka Project at the 2010 Newport Guitar Festival at the 
Denis has provided identical Sitka spruce to a host of the nation’s finest guitar builders to compare the sonic results from using the same wood in a variety of acoustic guitar contexts.
Check this area for more updates on the project or contact Denis at 
