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The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase is an annual acoustic guitar festival for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados, presenting a gathering of the finest handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments from around the world!

Join us not only for the show, but for the continuous musical events throughout the three days of the show. Check our calendar for the event schedule.

Join us for this year's show:
October 21, 22, & 23, 2016
Bearsville Theater / Utopia Soundstage , Woodstock, NY

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Calendar of events

I am still asking if there is interest from the community for these features, or if you've got ideas of your own....

Post from May 3...

Here are some ideas I've been kicking around to add to HVmusic, but what would you like to see?

My ideas:

• "Sponsored" songs featured on the home page. Like sponsored listings these would cost a little bit, but give you the ability to feature your mp3 on our home page.
   
• Help wanted listings. Do you need to hire someone for your music-related business? Would you use HVmusic to advertise for this opening? Do you think people would come here to look?
   
• Post your concert photos. Kind of like facebook for Hudson Valley Music. Tell others what concerts and shows you have seen and post photos.
   
• Add videos to Musicians Available or Musicians Wanted classifieds. (Update Sept 2016 -- This one is DONE)

Now, what are your ideas? Please add a comment to add your idea or to vote for one of the above. If you don't want to leave a public comment, just email your opinion to me.

It’s a new world.  Now we can present a better concert to you — and on that cold, snowy or rainy evening you don’t even have to leave your home to get inspired.

Is Anybody Listening, A Theatrical Concert and Webcast produced by Watchfire Music will debut and webcast in February of 2016 at the Sheen Center, a state-of-the-art theater and webcasting facility in NYC.  We’re raising funds now to make it all happen. We ask for your support.

Welcome to the new HVmusic 3.0
This is our third major version since we launched this site way back in 1997. With this revision we have created an attractive new look, and a "responsive" website that works equally well on all types of devices — traditional web browsers, tablets, and mobile phones. You can now manage all your listings from your mobile phone too. So if you had tried visiting us in the past on your mobile phone, please try again, we think you'll love the experience.

The beta test is now over and I want to thank all the HVmusic users who tried out the new code and gave us feedback before we went live.

We hope you like the new HVmusic as much as we do. 
Click Here to Report any Errors or Weirdness.

I hope that you have had a chance to check out the beta of the new HVmusic 3.0. That version contains some cool new functions, like the ability, in the calendar, to see events near you. But what else would you like to see me working on in the future?

Here are some suggestions I have had in the past:

• For those who create listings -- the ability to see a log of the email responses you have received.
• Feature audio files of your songs on the home page.
• Help Wanted classifieds -- people looking to hire someone in the music field.
• Post your concert reviews and photos.

Please add your own suggestions in the comments, or vote for one of these above.

Thanks,
-- Steve

The Seventh Annual Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase (and Tonewood Festival) will be held October 23, 24 & 25, 2015, at the Bearsville Theater and Utopia Soundstage, 291 & 293 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498. The Woodstock Invitational is an alternative guitar show, featuring fine, contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments, exhibited by their makers.