Original Article on Los Angeles Times

There's more than one way to play a guitar. That will be evident at the Los Angeles Guitar Festival at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.Long before rock 'n' roll made the guitar the principal instrument of pop culture, associated with such antics as members of Led Zeppelin riding their motorcycles through the lobby of the Chateau Marmont, L.A. was already in love with the six-string. Generations of singer-songwriters have strummed acoustic guitars in coffeehouses; Les Paul played the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic here in 1944; and legions of film studio composers and session musicians have rocked L.A.'s studios since the earliest days of the movie industry. Several local events pay homage to guitarists, but the inaugural Los An...(read more)