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New Orleans R&B Piano

Henry Butler – New Orleans pianist - he is an incredible live performer and every concert is an event and a phenomenon.

James Booker – New Orleans pianist. The first one to take rhythm & blues, soul music, the blues, and New Orleans music and make a whole solo piano style out of these traditions and others.

Professor Longhair – New Orleans pianist- The founder of New Orleans R&B piano scene in the late 1930s.

Dr. John – New Orleans pianist

Jon Cleary- New Orleans pianist

Allen Toussaint - New Orleans pianist and composer

Jazz & Melodic Piano

Phillip Aaberg – American pianist/composer

Vince Guaraldi – American Jazz pianist/composer

Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar

Keola Beamer – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist/composer

Sonny Chillingworth – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist

Cindy Combs – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist

Ledward Kaapana – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist

George Kahumoku Jr. – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist/composer. Also see www.slackkey.com.

Moses Kahumoku – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist/composer

Dennis Kamakahi – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist/composer

Ray Kane – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist

Ozzie Kotani – Hawaiian slack key guitarist

George Kuo – Hawaiian slack key guitarist

Leonard Kwan – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/composer

Cyril Pahinui– Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist

James “Bla” Pahinui – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/vocalist

Martin Pahinui – Hawaiian slack key guitarist/ bassist/vocalist

Other Guitarists

Ted Greene – American guitarist

Chet Atkins – American guitarist

Bola Sete – Brazilian guitarist/composer

Pierre Bensusan – French/Celtic guitarist/vocalist/composer

Bob Brozman - Acoustic steel guitar and guitar - Hawaiian, blues and beyond

Bruce Cockburn – Guitarist/songwriter
  – Cockburn Project - good Bruce Cockburn site

Alex DeGrassi - American guitarist/composer

Michael Hedges – American guitarist/vocalist/composer

Michael Lorimer - Great classical guitarist and beyond

Taj Mahal – Blues and beyond guitarist/singer/composer

Stephen Robinson - Great classical guitarist, teacher, and host of the Stetson International Guitar Workshop

Ralph Towner – American guitarist/pianist/composer

Doc Watson – American Old-Time/Bluegrass guitarist

Michael Barry-Rec - American guitarist/steel guitarist & composer

Harmonica-Appalachian, Cajun, Celtic & other

Amede Ardoin - Cajun accordionist

Deford Bailey – early blues/country harmonica player

Bruno- English/American Morris Dance and Celtic band

John Hartford – American fiddler/ banjo player/ composer

Oliver Schroer - the late great Toronto fiddler

Sam Hinton – American/ Celtic harmonica player

Marc Savoy –Cajun accordionist

Crooked Still - Great modern old time ensemble

Michael Barry-Rec - Great contemporary Appalachian guitarist

Rebekah Del Rio – Spanish/American vocalist

Resources for Old Time Music:

  • The Field Recorders' Collective - Ray Alden's great record company documenting many wonderful old time fiddlers, both older and younger, with a lot of great field recordings. Fiddlers include Tommy Jarrell, Marcus Martin, Wade Jarvis, Wilson Douglas. Esker Hutchins, Lynn "chirps" Smith, John Summers, & many more.
  • The Old-Time Herald - Great magazine on old time country music
  • Fiddler Magazine - Great magazine about fiddlers from various traditions including Appalachian, Celtic, Quebec, Cajun, and more.
  • County Records - A great record company and distributor of old time music.
  • Smithsonian Folkways - A great collection of old time music and much, much more

Harp

Patrick Ball—Celtic harpist

Kim Robertson – Celtic/American harpist - additional Kim website

Andreas Vollenweider – European harpist

Chinese Traditional & Classical

Wei-Shan Liu - Wonderful gu-zheng player (Chinese zither/ harp) and composer and founder of the San Francisco Gu-Zheng Music Society.I will be co-producing many new solo recordings with her.

Chen Lei-Shi (Louis Chen) - Great gu-zheng player

Wu-Fang - Great gu-zheng player (Chinese zither/ harp)

Chinese Music Society of North America

Chinese Culture Net

Ensemble

The Doors – American rock band

Al Kooper – American rock & soul organist/pianist/composer

Randy Newman – American songwriter and soundtrack composer

Frank Zappa –American composer/guitarist

  • List of Frank Zappa sites
  • Another good Frank Zappa site

Winter Season Recordings

Alfred Burt- American composer
John Fahey-American guitarist

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Additional Music Sites

Dancing Cat Records - George Winston's record label - Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar recordings and eight section information booklet on Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, and more.

Dragon's Eye Recordings - This site sells the sound sheet for George's 3 song medley for Bread Baker's Stomp.

Village School Foundation - Guitarist Tinh Mahoney's foundation helping to empower Vietnamese children with education.

Hawaiian Music Island - Listing of Hawaiian recordings & live performances

Off Beat Magazine - A great New Orleans music magazine - articles and listing of live performances

Roots and Rhythm - Great store for many kinds of traditional and historic music

The Old-Time Herald - Great magazine on old time country music

The Field Recorders' Collective - Ray Alden's great record company documenting many wonderful old time fiddlers, both older and younger, with a lot of great field recordings. Fiddlers include Tommy Jarrell, Marcus Martin, Wade Jarvis, Wilson Douglas. Esker Hutchins, Lynn "chirps" Smith, John Summers, & many more

Digital Library of Appalachia - Then go to "Browse by topic", then to "Music" or go HERE

County Records - A great record company and distributor of old time music

Wendy Waldman - great American singer/songwriter

Eve Rantzer - great American singer/songwriter

Shad Weathersby – Great singer/songwriter.

Frosty Horton – Great singer/songwriter and producer (he produces Shad Weathersby and many more).

Montana Mandolin Society - great mandolin based ensemble in Bozeman, Montana

FolkScene - Howard & Roz Larman's live radio program, which has been broadcasting for 30 years, with many kinds of music

Al Hazen (aka Ali Hassan) - The pianist on the great hit version of Nut Rocker by B. Bumble and the Stingers from 1962.

Other Arts

Tanglewood Forest - The deep, soulful artistry of Marci Wolfe.

Ling-Wen Tsai - Deep and wonderful visual and performance artist, and beyond. Her work has been very inspirational and essential in many ways for my growth on all three instruments that I play, as well as personally

Costanza Knight - Beautiful watercolor art and more from an artist who has inspired and influenced me for decades.

Allyson Adams - Peace as a Women's Job

Margaret Ezekiel - Painter – the beauty and soul of Hawaii and beyond

Harriet Blum - Great photography and hand tinting, of Louisiana and beyond.

Nancy Megan Corwin - Wonderful metalsmithing work

Barbara Stone - Painter - Polar Bears and the Soul

Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics by Heather Busch and Burton Silver (Ten Speed Press). Also visit - The World of Feline Art.

Dancing With Cats by Heather Busch, Burton Silver and Shakya Bahrain (Chronicle Books)

Steve Lankford Photography - Great photography. George uses a photo of his on his solo harmonica concert program.

Health, General Service, Ecology & Science

There are a lot of amazing people doing wonderful work for the benefit of all living beings - there are so many, and it is impossible to list them all (so some of the well known ones are not listed) - here are a few of them:

Health & General Service


  • FEEDING AMERICA - George’s new special edition of the Remembrance album will benefit this organization (formerly Second Harvest Food Bank)
  • Children's Aid Society - George Winston's REMEMBRANCE George Winston’s Remembrance album benefit this organization from 2001-2009.
  • TAILS Humane Society - -Kathy Stelford’s wonderful animal rescue organization
  • UNITED WE SERVE NON-PARTISAN PROGRAM - President Obama is asking all Americans to serve the country this summer as part of the United We Serve campaign. This campaign is one of the key on-going initiatives from the White House designed to make it easy to get involved, to build communities, and move the nation forward. www.serve.gov provides an opportunity for citizens to easily get involved in their individual communities nationwide.

    ;We need your service, right now, at this moment in history. I’m not going to tell you what your role should be; that’s for you to discover. But I am asking you to stand up and play your part. I am asking you to help change history’s course.”
    - President Obama, 4/21/2009

Science/Astronomy

  • Powers of 10- A wonderful scientific and artistic view of physical existence, from the universe itself, gradually all the way down to quarks, in powers of 10.

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