The Adelaide Guitar Festival is the largest of its kind in Australia and it runs next weekend, August 11 to 14. The Festival will celebrate the high art of classical guitar to the kneeslapping delights of bluegrass, stopping at every fret and note in between. Sarah Bleby from the Festival joins us tonight along with blues legend and Guitars In Bars performer, Cal Williams Junior.

We discuss

Guitar puns
The Guitar Festival, Guitars In Bars
Adelaide - UNESCO City Of Music
Surviving as a muso in Adelaide
How to learn guitar, the clever, Cal Williams Jnr way
History of the guitar
Blues and slavery music
Eric Bogle
Guitar, the most popular instrument
Should you lubricate your fingers?

Also appearing with our Adelaide Guitar Festival banter

In the musical pilgrimage, we hear a track from a gun guitarist, Matt Stillert

The SA Drink Of The Week is a Sidewood Adelaide Hills Shiraz

In IS IT NEWS, Nigel tests us on guitars in Adelaide

News about Nigel and I playing games in Mannum

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