Please come and see us! Running from April 30th to May 2nd, this event was started originally in 1991 as a meeting point for guitar collectors, but in a very short time the festival became a classic appointment not only for the vintage and high-end guitar fans, but also for all those who consider themselves music lovers. Soave 2010 Guitar Festival – the 19th edition of the event – will celebrate 50 years from that 1960 This event will run along three days. Please click here to go to the Soave guitar festival site

The fantastic Acoustic guitar meeting in Sarzana is of course taking place also in 2010. Come along and find us!

ACOUSTIC GUITAR MEETING
Festival internazionale di chitarra acustica – Appuntamento a Sarzana (La Spezia)
19-20-21-22-23 maggio 2010 FORTEZZA FIRMAFEDE
SARZANA (SP) ITALY
13a edizione

Please click here for the official site

For those of you that are in Australia at the moment or going there in January 2010…

Them Crooked Vultures (abbreviated as TCV), the rock music Supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2005 is on the way Downunder. Comprising vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss and Eagles of Death Metal), drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) and bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), making the term “Supergroup” a wee understatement.
The band also features Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age) as a live rhythm guitarist.

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Messiah is happy to announce that we will be offering special custom shop guitars from Maton for the Italian market.

Maton’s Custom Shop provides you with the ultimate personal guitar experience. As the customer, you are invited to specify body shape, colour, decorative inlays and be involved in the selection of premium tone woods.

Get inspired!  - Download the Custom Shop catalogue

The Maton Custom Shop experience provides you with the opportunity to have a say in the dynamics of the desired sound speaking face-to-face with the craftsman who will build the guitar for you.

You can be guaranteed that Maton will build a guitar that you can truthfully say is unique, a one-off.

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Australia’s premier rock act Powderfinger have recently been spied around Australia promoting their new album “Golden Rule”, set to be released on 13 November 2009. When you have an Acoustic Job to do – what brand do Powderfinger choose?

Check out this article and pics from Australian newspaper “The Age”.

A number of additional promotional events have been organised for the week prior to Sarzana in collaboration with selected authorised dealers (“rivenditori”) where Patrick, Michael, Julia and Leesa will all participate in presentations performances, workshops and music school demonstrations.

There are now two major events confirmed for our Pre-Sarzana tour:

A Custom Shop Exposition at Musical Box on the 17-19th May in conjunction with a workshop and clinic on Monday 18th featuring Michael Fix and the Hussy Hicks.

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