The Adelaide Guitar Festival is the largest of its kind in Australia and it runs next weekend, August 11 to 14. The Festival will celebrate the high art of classical guitar to the kneeslapping delights of bluegrass, stopping at every fret and note in between. Sarah Bleby from the Festival joins us tonight along with blues legend and Guitars In Bars performer, Cal Williams Junior.
We discuss
- Guitar puns
- The Guitar Festival, Guitars In Bars
- Adelaide – UNESCO City Of Music
- Surviving as a muso in Adelaide
- How to learn guitar, the clever, Cal Williams Jnr way
- History of the guitar
- Blues and slavery music
- Eric Bogle
- Guitar, the most popular instrument
- Should you lubricate your fingers?
Also appearing with our Adelaide Guitar Festival banter
In the musical pilgrimage, we hear a track from a gun guitarist, Matt Stillert
The SA Drink Of The Week is a Sidewood Adelaide Hills Shiraz
In IS IT NEWS, Nigel tests us on guitars in Adelaide
News about Nigel and I playing games in Mannum
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| 00:00:00 | Outtake |
| Level headed | |
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Theme |
| Theme and introduction. Our original theme song in full is here, Adelaidey-hoo. | |
| 00:00:00 |
Talk Of The Town |
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David is on extended leave and will return later in 2016. David Washington, editor of In Daily, gives us a midweek wrap of the news we’ve been talking about in South Australia this week. |
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| 00:02:58 | SA Drink Of The Week |
| 2014 Sidewood Adelaide Hills Shiraz … tasting notes coming Sunday | |
| 00:08:54 | Items Without Notice |
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Nigel and I will be at the Games Obsession Expo in Mannum on Sunday, August 7. Let us know if you are going and just how obsessed you are with gaming or hobbies. Listen out to Steve’s daughters at the end of the episode. They have recorded a new “outro”. |
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| 00:13:47 | Sarah Bleby and Cal Williams Jnr |
| The Adelaide Guitar Festival is the largest of its kind in Australia and it runs next weekend, August 11 to 14. The Festival will celebrate the high art of classical guitar to the kneeslapping delights of bluegrass, stopping at every fret and note in between. Sarah Bleby from the Festival joins us tonight along with blues legend and Guitars In Bars performer, Cal Williams Junior, who also runs The Guitar Academy. | |
| 01:32:18 | Is It News? |
| The news history quiz with Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. Read the stories. They get published each Sunday. | |
| 00:00:00 | Adelaide Visa Council |
| No cases this week. | |
| 00:00:00 | Made To Move Minute |
| Max Martin from iNform Health and Fitness Solutions, Norwood, present a thoughtful minute for pondering more ways and reasons to get moving and improve your health. This week: Max is on leave |
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| 01:46:54 | Musical Pilgrimage |
| And our song this week is Little Yellow Wand by Matt Stillert, selected by our musical curator Dan Drummond, from iSA Radio, an online station streaming independent SouthAustralian music 247. | |
| 02:38:00 | Outtake |
| Steve rings himself … Cal gives the clap | |
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