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Elly Wininger Elly plays the tune on the home page here. She's a wonderful musician who brings her deep life experiences to her music and audiences. Book her for your club or home concert. EllyWininger.com Marc Silber Marc is one of the great sources of information on American peoples' music and instruments. He is the person most responsible for my lifetime of repairing, restroing and building guitars and other fretted instruments. He's also one of the best finger style guitar players around. His web site is a font of great information. MarcSilberMusic.com Lyn Hardy As you can see Lyn Hardy plays guitar, she also repairs and builds them. She is the go-to person for repair in the Woodstock, NY area as well as being one of the great people in the north east musical scene for lo, these many years. Check her website at LynHardy.com Joel Zoss Joel is one of the great singer-songwrtiters, having written such tunes as Bonnie Rait's hit "Too Long at the Fair". He's now living in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he is available for house concerts and bookings anywhere. JoelZoss.com Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders, US Senator from Vermont, Brooklyn, N.Y. originally, and the only truly independent member of the Senate. If you want a political voice you can trust, try Bernie. He's a socialist that the conservative voters of Vermont have elected over and over again. His web site, Sanders.senate.gov Sylvan Cycles Yes, it's a wooden bicycle built by Sylvan Cycles. John Fabel and Sam Kelly have combined their love of cycling and their belief in sustainable, low carbon emission technology to create a bicycle which is light shock absorbent and comfortable to ride. Check them out at SylvanCycles.com The Institute for Musical Arts IMA is... a non-profit teaching, performing and recording facility dedicated to supporting women in music and its related businesses. View their site at IMA.org Fretted Instruments School of Guitar and Banjo Jack Baker, one of New York’s foremost teachers of guitar and banjo, possibly uke also, used to have a little studio right next to Marc Silber’s Fretted Instruments shop. When Marc left for Berkeley, he gave jack permission to use the name. If you want to learn anything about playing, Jack’s your man. As I remember Roy Bookbinder learned a lot of blues stuff from him. Check his site at frettedinstrumentsnyc.com Roy Book Binder Roy is a disciple of the Reverend Garry Davis, one of the greatest blues artists of the last century. If you want him to do a house concert, he is availavle at roybookbinder.com If you can get to Woodstock on Oct. 23 or 24 come to the Woodstock Invitation Luthiers Showcase at the Bearsville Theater. This is the only guitar show I do and it’s a great way not only to see guitars, but hear music played by some of the best musicians in the country. I will be there late Saturday an all of Sunday. Elly Wininger will be at the booth and can help you with any questions you may have. Check out the show web site: woodstockinvitational.com Marc Aroner is one of the finest craftsman I have ever met. You might think that a fishing rod is not something comparable to a guitar, but it takes Marc about the same amount of time to make a rod as it does for me to make a guitar. Take a look at his site spinozarods.com to see just how far one can be sucked into fly fishing. Can’t live without it myself.