Line up for Day 1 of the Summit

Couldn't sleep a full night last night (only 4.5 hours) in anticipation of the weekend. I think for Day 1 I'm going to bring my Gibson AJ along.  I'm mainly looking to hit the free setup booth to give it an adjustment (I'm switching from light strings to medium).  I'll even stop by the Open Jamming Space area to see what's up.  I'll probably feel too intimidated to jam by those who I'm likely going to run into, but who knows.  Otherwise, I'll walk around the grounds to see what kind of "free crap" I can pick up.

As for the Summit agenda, I'm likely going to hit the discussions on Lutherie instead of playing technique.  I'm more interested to hear about guitar building and all that surrounds it.  Today's speakers include Richard Hoover from the Santa Cruz Guitar Company, Michael Gurian of Gurian Guitars, and a few other luthiers who will discuss flaming and other building techniques.  There will even be a discussion on Guitars and Environmental Law which I plan to attend.

But what a gathering of talent on the first night of concerts.  Here are the featured artists for tonight:

Courtney Hartman  (sample)

Marcus Eaton  (sample)

David Crosby  (sample)

Bill Frisell  (sample)

More to come!!!