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DOWN HOME NEWS

GREY FOX BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL JULY 15-18 2010

Down Home Guitars is attending The Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival July 15-18 2010 in Oak Hill, NY. This is the “IBMA Bluegrass Event of the Year” with a great line up of artists. We will have a booth set up in the vending area representing our store as well as Stelling Banjos. Geoff Stelling can’t make it this year and has asked us to represent him. We are really excited to be making the trip and spend the weekend picking, hanging, and catching up with all our friends. If your out that way in upstate New York stop by ands say hi! We’ll have some guitars, banjos and mandolins for sale as well as accessories picks, straps and such. While out that way we are going to stop by the Bourgeois Guitars in Lewiston Maine and hang out with our good friends Dana Bourgeois and Bonni Lloyd. If you need a good reason to hit New England this summer this is it. We’ll see ya there!

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WEEKLY BLUEGRASS JAMS

 MONDAY EVENING LOCAL BLUEGRASS JAM SPONSORED BY DOWN HOME GUITARS at THE TRIBES ALEHOUSE MOKENA, IL

 Down Home Guitars continues the local Monday Bluegrass Jam at The Tribes Alehouse on Rt. 30 and Wolf Rd. in Mokena, IL from 7-10pm every Monday . Bring your acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dobro etc and sit in and play or just come and listen. Good food and drink specials.

EVERY THURSDAY JAM at DOWN HOME GUITARS

Steve and Tom host the Down Home Bluegrass Jam every Thursday right here at Down Home Guitars from 7pm -9pm. Bring you acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dobro etc and pick. Come one come all! Contact Steve at Down Home Guitars with any questions. at (815)469-6321. From May to September also enjoy the Downtown Frankfort Antique Car Show every Thursday from 5-9pm right outside the store.

Grammy and IBMA Award Winning Artists play to sold out crowd at Down Home Guitars

October 6th 2009- Down Home Guitars was pleased to host David Grier and Mike Compton for a day of music with workshops and a sold out concert. Thanks to everyone who came to see some of the best acoustic music there is. It was truly a great performance.

(LtoR)Mike Compton, Steve & Tom of Down Home & David Grier

Mike Compton & David Grier in Concert at Down Home Guitars

DOWN HOME EXPANDING!

MAY 29th 2009-We are pleased to announce the completion of our store expansion. We have added another store front so now we actually have a street view which should make us much easier to find. We opened up the wall between the space we have been in for the past year and put in double french doors opening to the new counter area in front. We now have a high end ‘vault’ room seperate from the rest of the store, along with space for small concerts and classes. With the historic atmosphere of the Trolley Barn, the building we are located in, and Downtown Frankfort, we feel right at home, and are definately here to stay.

   The Trolley Barn is so named because the 100+ year old building used to house the roundabout, where the trains would turn around in the old days, for the old Joliet Trolley Line that ran down Kansas Street right into the new store front. Besides expanding our selection of acoustic instruments, we are adding more group classes, and plan to host more workshops and in-store concerts, like the Greg Cahill/ Alan Munde, Masters of the 5 Banjo Concert on May 31st and the Steve Kaufman flatpicking weekend workshop and concert that was held in September and will be held again the same time this year and was a huge success thanks to Kidsworks Children’s Museum that shared their space with us to make it happen.

  Stop by and see our selection of some truly amazing hand made acoustic instruments by some of the leading people in the industry, and watch us grow. Thanks for the support!

Steve Haberichter

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TOM SMITH SEEN PLAYING LIVE

Frankfort Bluegrass X-Press Oct.24th 2008

Tom Smith of Down Home Guitars, noted trailer guru and bicycle stuntman, was spotted for a rare live appearance this past Wednesday evening for open mic at Jenny’s Steak House down the block from Down Home Guitars. He reportedly blazed through licks, taught personally to him by the great teacher Steve Kaufman, on such tunes as Black Mt. Rag and Foggy Mountain. Also appearing with Tom were Ted “The Doc” Jefferson, and Steve Haberichter also of Down Home Guitars. Tom was quoted as saying,”I can be in the band without being in the band.”

The Trolley Barn

Tom Smith