Steve Krenz

I'm not familiar with this one but I will check it out! -Steve

Great ideas from a great instructor. David always puts out great things. - Steve

Naming an instrumental song has always been pretty easy for me because it has no reference. You can name it anything! For example, I was working on the Fingerstyle course and had just written out this short song that I was using as an example. It needed a name so I yelled across the office hallway to one of the video editors in the next office... "Grant, what's your daughters name?" He yelled back... "Carolina". The song has been "Carolina" ever since. Another example, was a song that I did in the key of G for our Fingerstyle retreat last year. After working it out a bit with the working title of "Song in G". I went downstairs with great trepidation and played it for my wife. She said it reminded her of the Sunday drives she would take as a child. The song was then forever titled "Sunday Drive".

Fantastic play by play as always. I love your pictures. We're often too busy to grab many shots so it's wonderful to see these. Hope you made it back safely. We are catching up on our sleep and basking in the afterglow of the fantastic time we had. Love you guys. - Steve

I fixed it. It might be something in the program. - Steve

Absolutely wonderful! I loved reading all of the updates and got a few ideas for how to make our events better. Looks like a wonderful time! - Steve

Doug, We can accommodate 24. Currently we have about 17 registered. Always a great time. I look forward to it all year. -Steve

Hey all, I wanted to give an official announcement about our annual Summer Guitar Gathering conference. We will not be having a Summer Guitar Gathering conference this year. We're not stopping the summer conferences - we're just taking a break for the year. The reasons... 1) Our previous venue - Trevecca University - has dramatically increased their facilities use expenses. Trevecca has made the decision to start charging "facilities" fees. This has happened across the board, in every department, for every use, for every building. The fees they are requiring are to the tune of over half of our current conference budget. The conference has always been a bit of a labor of love and not a huge money maker by the time everyone got paid. The addition of these new "facilities fees" just took it out of reach and over the top. So, long story short, we're looking for a new host venue and didn't want to try to force it this year just for the sake of having the conference. 2) Paulette and I have put on the conference for 10 or so years by ourselves - from months of planning, to moving every chair to writing every check - and in short, we simply felt we needed a year to rest, and get new vision for the event. So, we're not stopping the summer conferences - just taking a break for the year to regroup, find a new venue and get some new ideas and vision for the future. Just wanted everyone to know. It's a joy serving you all in this way. Looking forward to 2025 and getting it back going again. BUT, the 2024 Fall Fingerstyle Guitar Retreat is still on and un-affected. (And it's going to be a great retreat). Love you all, - Steve and Paulette

Such wonderful insights. A decade of music making. A day of making music - however big or small - is so much better and greater than a day not making music. Thank you Diane. - Steve