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New Orleans CBG Fest: Build-Off Contest, DIY Forum & Shane Speal Seminar
Event Details
Time: January 19, 2018 from 11am to 3pm
Location: Bamboula's - The Frenchman Theater in the back of Bamboulas
Street: 516 Frenchmen St,
City/Town: New Orleans, LA 70116
Website or Map: http://neworleanscbg.com/
Event Type: seminar, and, contest
Organized By: Cigar Box Nation, C. B. Gitty and Shane Speal
Latest Activity: Jan 17, 2018
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Event Description
- The next great Cigar Box Guitar Build-Off... Win a Shane Speal cigar box guitar, a $100 Gitty gift certificate and much more
- Meet cigar box guitar author, David Sutton...
- How-To-Build seminars...
- And a special in-person slide guitar lesson by Shane Speal!
C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply and Shane Speal are proud to announce the 2018 New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival Seminars. Spend Friday morning and early afternoon digging deep into all things DIY instruments. The seminars are part of your ticket price.
BUILD OFF: Bring your very best cigar box guitar to enter the Build-Off on Friday morning.
One winner will get this Shane Speal cigar box guitar (above) from www.SpealGuitars.com! Other prizes include a $100 gift certificate from www.CBGitty.com, guitar slides & shirts from www.StubbySlide.com and more!
Meet David Sutton, author of the books, Cigar Box Guitars and An Obsession with Cigar Box Guitars. Not only will David perform on stage later in the evening, he will also be doing a meet-and-greet. Buy a book while you're there, get a photo & autograph, too!
This is all part of the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival, January 17-21 in the historic French Quarter. Ticket info at www.NewOrleansCBG.com
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Comment by Paul Croteau on January 8, 2018 at 2:23pm
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MAN, I wish I could attend. Haven't been to the Big Easy in quite a while... and I've got this crazy steampunk license plate guitar envisioned in my brain right now. Maybe if I can get it done I will make the road trip. :)
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