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George Winston
Recommended Links

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

Michael Hedges – American guitarist/vocalist/composer

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

Ralph Towner – American guitarist/pianist/composer

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

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

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

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

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)
  • TAILS Humane Society - -Kathy Stelford’s wonderful animal rescue organization

    ;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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