The NASHVILLE SUMMER NAMM SHOW.  June 20 -22,  2008

What a weekend.  Great guitars, music, dealers and artists.  Lots of  friends stopped by to visit.  Here's a picture of your narrator (me) with Ricky Skaggs and Skip Cherryholmes. 

 
Skip Cherryholmes, Bonni Lloyd & Ricky Skaggs!

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Sunday was a great day. Ricky Skaggs came to the booth at noon to check out his new Ricky Skaggs Limited Edition Style 42 model.  He hung around till 4PM!


(Ricky Skaggs and the RS Ltd Edition Style 42)

(Ricky signing labels for the Limited Edition)

While Ricky was signing autographs and getting pictures taken with fans, some other friends stopped by:

(Ricky, Seymour Duncan, Dana Bourgeois & James Burton) Thanks for this "Mount Rushmore" picture of this foursome to our friend and fine photographer © Ryan Pavlov!

and then another !

(Vince Gill & Ricky) 

And this shot shows Vince Gill & RIcky with Jim Greenhill who now OWNS that DBJC.  

(Vince, Jim Greenhill & Ricky).  

Cia & Skip from the award winning Bluegrass band, Cherryholmes spent some time with us.  Check out the ad in Bluegrass Unlimited that we are running with Skip.  Skip plays a D-150, a Vintage D Brazilian and an A-350.  

Cia Cherryholmes, Skip Cherryholmes & Dana

Great Flatpicker Adam McIntosh (Dry Branch Fire Squad and Jett Creek) picked some in our booth with his dad Jon.  

(Adam McIntosh & Jon McIntosh)

Bourgeois Player, Danick Dupelle from the band Emerson Drive stopped by.  Danick plays a JOMC with a Bearclaw sitka top.  

Bonni, Danick Dupelle & Dana 

We also got a visit from  our old friend Nashville Guitarist and Songwriter, Jeff Dayton.  Jeff plays an OM and a Vintage D in Honduran RW.  He toured with Glen Campbell for 15 years and has recorded and toured with many others including Lee Greenwood and Kenny Chesney.  

(Skip Cherryholmes, Dana and Jeff Dayton)

Got in some nice visits with dealers too!  Here are some of the folks that stopped by to see us:  

Bryan Rankins, James Gast, Dana & Mike Fazio from Fazios Music in Ellisville, Missouri

Dana and Jon Garon of My Favorite Guitars in Florida

Dana with Julie and Wil from Spruce Tree Music in Madison, Wisconin.  

Dave and Scott from West Chester Music in West Chester Pennsylvania

 
Jim Curley and Mike from Mountain Music Shoppe in Shawnee Kansas 

Here is a picture of our newest dealer, Richard Johnston of Gryphon Stringed Instruments.  We are very proud to be in that fine California shop.  

 
(Richard Johnston & Dana)

And we got to hang with the young but passionate and knowledgeable, W.T. Warmoth of Artisan Guitars.  

(W.T. Warmoth and Ricky)

While visiting the booth, Ricky, an avid gear nut, tried every guitar in the booth.  We got shots of him with some of them...  Here's what we got:

The Macassar Soloist.

The Pao Rosewood OM.

Old "Panama Red" 

And the pictures below show his reaction to the Short Scale Slope D Burst: 

We had a great time and as you can see, the guitars were beautiful and well received.  To find out more about them and to see where they can be purchased, click  here.   

Thank you for your interest in our guitars.  Support your local music store whenever possible and, whatever else seems hard to do, keep playing!

Bonni Lloyd

P.S.  Thanks to our good friend Kari Estrin for doing a great job working with us in our booth and for taking a lot of pictures for us.  Thanks again to Ryan Pavlov for his pictures!

Page last updated:  July 21, 2008