World’s Largest Modern Guitar Show to Feature More Than 1,000 Guitars, 200+ Mini-Concerts and Seminars Taught By Renowned Guitarists

The world’s largest modern guitar festival will make its debut at the Hard Rock Live Hollywood, FL, this weekend! To celebrate the “Golden Age” of guitars, musicians of all genres will fill Hard Rock Live to strum the vintage masterpieces and extraordinary one-of-a-kind instruments available for purchase. Hundreds of vendors will display acoustic, electric, vintage, hand-made and modern guitars, at prices up to $400,000.Experts from Blue Book Publications, Inc. will be available to appraise guitars brought to the show and vintage dealers will be in attendance to purchase guitars.

Joining the celebration are music industry leaders:

• Laurence Juber, lead guitarist of Paul McCartney’s Wings.
• Phil Keaggy, internationally acclaimed guitar soloist.
• Muriel Anderson, one of the world’s foremost guitarists and host of Muriel Anderson’s All Star Guitar Night, which will close out the Festival Sunday night at Hard Rock Live.  
• Dizzy G. Gillespie, distinguished blues guitarist who has worked with musical legends such as Bugs Henderson, Doyle Bramhall Sr., Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Kentucky Headhunters. (Dizzy G. Gillespie is not related to the late Jazz legend John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie)
• Distinguished guitarists Mary Flower, Paul Asbell, and Michael Chapdelaine will perform more than 200 mini-concerts to demonstrate the various guitars on display.

WHEN:            
Friday, April 16 from 10 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 17 from 10 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 18 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
*Sunday: Close-out concert, Muriel Anderson’s All Star Guitar Night, from 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

WHERE:          
Hard Rock Live and Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, FL 33314

WHO:              
Newport Guitar Festival sponsored by Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Hard Rock Live, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, Petros Guitars, Blue Book Publications, DHR Music, Pickcard and Noisy Planet.

MEDIA:            
To apply for credentials for Florida’s Newport Guitar Festival, please send e-mails to hwhr.media@seminolehardrock.com.

There will be a media hospitality and workroom located in the Green Room at Hard Rock Live open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily. The media room will have computer workstations with internet access, printer access, fax machine access, interview area, couches, television, Wii Guitar Hero and refreshments.