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Experience these blues and fingerstyle guitar masters ahead of their week of instruction at Menucha Retreat for Blues in the Gorge, $37 general admission, minors OK with parent/guardian, doors open at 6 pm, show 7 pm.

Alvin Youngblood Hart
The cosmic American love child of Howlin Wolf and Link Wray! Known as a “musician’s musician,” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to Brit guitar gods Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor.

Vance Gilbert
Vance was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. He started out hoping to be an R&B and jazz singer, but once at college, he discovered his affinity for storytelling.

Bill Kirchen
From performing with his Who Knows Pickers jug band in Ann Arbor High School’s senior talent show (also on the program: the future Iggy Pop), to birthing the Americana genre with the original “hippie country band,” Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen.

Mary Flower
Mary Flower is a brilliant fingerpicking guitarist in the roots blues/ragtime/early jazz tradition. She’s made fourteen recordings that document her profound command and love for blues guitar. It’s entirely appropriate that Jorma Kaukonen called her “a national treasure in your own backyard.”