About this Event
Guitar League Saint Petersburg will meet on October 9th, 2024 in the band room at Gibbs High School – sign in at 6:30pm. We are excited to have Chad Stivers back for a second time as the Main Presenter! You're in for a treat!
How to get there:
Because of school security, the only entrance to the Gibbs High School campus will be the 31st Street entrance on the back side of the school by the basketball and tennis courts. There is plenty of parking. Click on this link and it will open in Google maps and this dropped pin should take you to that back gate in the parking lot off 31st Street South.
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About our presenter:
Chad started out his guitar journey as an electric rock and blues player, studying the likes of the Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and all the classics. Later on he dove into the acoustic side of things, learning instrumentals by Mark Hanson, Leo Kottke, Eric Johnson, and others. Chad started playing with the Tampa Bay Fingerstyle Guitar Guild and has continued to play with them for over five years now. During this time he met Dr. Jimmy Moore, classical guitar professor at St. Petersburg College and Florida Southern College, who refined his playing with the techniques of Christopher Parkening, and gave him a taste of classical guitar repertoire and studies. Furthermore, Chad would go on to study with LaRue Nickelson, jazz guitar professor at the University of Southern Florida, who gave him years of invaluable musical guidance while he took up singing and continued to dive deep into different styles of acoustic guitar music. Some of his favorites are Bert Jansch, James Taylor, Lindsey Buckingham, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, and more recently getting into bluegrass with Tony Rice. Chad plays around the Tampa Bay, Clearwater, St Petersburg area and had the great honor of opening for the world-renowned fingerstyle virtuoso Richard Smith at Seven C Music in March.
2nd Half guitar playing:
The first half of the meeting will be Chad performing for your entertainment. In the second half of the meeting, we will all play our guitars - so be sure to bring your guitar and a capo! Chad will lead us in 3 to 5 songs and sing them for us while we all play along! If you email our chapter leader Tom Abrassart at [email protected], Tom will send along the five songs that Chad will pick out for us.
Club details:
The Guitar League generally meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month (February and March exceptions) from 6:30 PM to 9 PM (sign in & registration at 6:30) at Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School. The School Board of Pinellas County, FL is neither sponsoring, nor affiliated with this event.
BIG NEWS! The Guitar League meetings will move to the Gulf Port American Legion beginning in November. Stay tuned for the announcement!
At each meeting, the main presenter spends the first 50 minutes sharing a mixture of performing and discussing their craft, something truly unique in the entertainment industry. Next, we take a 20-minute break and the 2nd half is your chance to play your guitar along with the presenter and the rest of the club. Attendees are encouraged to bring their acoustic guitar, capo and tuner if they have one.
A prospective member’s first meeting is always free to test-drive the organization. Membership is $120/year for 12 monthly meetings ($10/meeting) or $15 per month. Membership includes access to a huge curated library of free online lessons from guitar instruction industry leader Truefire and deep discounts on their All-Access plan. The Saint Petersburg chapter of Guitar League is the tenth chapter of the Syracuse, NY based organization. Chapters are located in Syracuse N.Y., Asheville, NC, Boston North, MA, Central Massachusetts, MA, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, Knoxville, TN, Phoenix, AZ, Poconos, PA and Southern Wisconsin, WIS.
Website: https://www.guitarleague.com/saint-petersburg-fl.html
For more information contact:
Guitar League Saint Petersburg
Tom Abrassart
Cell phone: 407-399-1292
Email: [email protected]
Guitar League National:
Jim Horsman
Cell phone: 941-786-8137
Email: [email protected]
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gibbs High School, Gibbs HS back entrance 31st Street South, St. Petersburg, United States
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