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About New York Guitar Festival

Since 1999, the New York Guitar Festival, a month-long music and arts festival in New York City, has explored virtually every aspect of the guitar’s musical personality, presenting many of the world’s most distinctive and influential guitarists at venues including Carnegie Hall, The 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall, Joe’s Pub, Barbes, (le) Poisson Rouge, The World Financial Center Winter Garden, Joe's Pub, Jazz Standard, Rockwood Music Hall, BB King's, and various pop-up venues. Among the hundreds of artists, from many aesthetic and cultural traditions, who've performed for us are Bruce Springsteen, Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Pepe Romero, The Assad Duo, Larry Campbell, Vernon Reid, Andy Summers, The National, Daniel Lanois, Mike Gordon (Phish), David Torn, Jorma Kaukonen, Dan Zanes, Bill Frisell, Sonny Landreth, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Cindy Cashdollar, Taj Mahal, Leo Kottke, Kaki King, Ricky Skaggs, Keller Williams, Marc Ribot, Marty Stuart, Gary Lucas, My Brightest Diamond, Lenny Kaye, and many others. Sponsors and marketing/media partners have included: Apple, Brooklyn Brewery, Guitar Center, Avalon Guitars, Marshall/Korg/Vox, Other Music, PBS, WFUV, WNYC, WBAB, Sirius XM, Guitar Player, Relix, and flavorpill. The festival has received favorable press from around the world, including from The New Yorker, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Variety, Spin, and Village Voice. Festival 2016: Join us for soulful celebrations of All Things Guitar throughout the month of May! Spring ’16 brings master classes, free recitals, new mash-ups of silent film with live scores, AND a Mother’s Day tribute to the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe. New venues, new concepts, new partners, new season!