The TSU Guitar Summit is a weekend-long interactive musical immersion for ALL guitarists, from aspiring pickers and artists
to the next number-one hit songwriter. A faculty of Nashville pro players and teachers, guest clinicians. and artists fill the weekend with workshops on topics from acoustic accompaniment styles to fretboard harmony, guitar care, getting great tone, hotlicks country techniques, Delta blues, jazz improvisation, and more. Our instructors & guests are lifelong professionals with well-established recording and performing careers, hit songs, and years of professional teaching to their collective credit.

The Guitar Summit is unlike any other existing guitar festival, bringing Nashville's creative, collaborative culture to the workshop environment. Multiple instructors may work together on a class, creating a dynamic environment that brings every student into the conversation. Some workshops are conducted like interviews, offering a window into the mind of a great musican. Some instructors will be available throughout the weekend for small group or individual breakout sessions.

Each day will also feature special clinics with guest Visiting Artists.
Join in on a rare opportunity to talk guitar and music with a group of Music City's best in a relaxed, intimate setting.

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Presented by the Tennessee State University Department of Music. 

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Visiting artists:

Brian Ashley Jones - Americana artist-songwriter, on signature guitar parts and a songwriter's approach.

Tiger Gagan - slide master gets "Loud & Dirty" on Delta blues styles

Mark Robinson- blues artist, producer, and veteran blues/Americana sideman (Buddy Guy, Tommy Womack, Davis Raines, many more) on essential rhythm guitar

Jack Silverman - improvisational funk-jazz-rock artist on pushing the boundaries.

Joe Doyle - hit songwriter, on creativity



TSU Guitar Faculty:

Dave Isaacs - on blending guitar parts and acoustic accompaniment styles, 

Chip Henderson - intro to jazz improvisation

Tiger Fitzhugh - triadic voicings and steel guitar sounds

Marty Crum - fretboard harmony

and a special Latin and flamenco workshop with
Dr. Carlos Castilla

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