Links

• Colleagues And Friends

  • Alex de Grassi a most expressive painter of musical pictures
  • Allan Neave one of Britain’s foremost classical guitarists
  • Alyth McCormack incredible (not just) Gaelic singer from Lewis
  • Beppe Gambetta wonderful Italian flatpicking maestro
  • David Allison master looping-guitarist and multi-media artist
  • Dylan Fowler great Welsh guitarist/composer/producer
  • Jan Hermerschmidt clarinetist extraordinaire!
  • Jens Kommnick world-class Celtic fingerstylist and multi-multi-instrumentalist
  • Jörg Nassler fiery virtuoso guitarist/percussionist
  • Kerstin Blodig the one and only …..
  • Manfred Leuchter The amazing accordion virtuoso and producer
  • McKinley Black powerful singer-songwriter with a great voice
  • Peter Finger World-class guitarist and head of Acoustic Music Records
  • Peter Jack bass player, guitarist, songwriter extraordinaire
  • Ralf Gauck Solo bass magician
  • Taner Akyol Virtuoso Turkish saz(baglama)-player and composer
  • Thomas Loefke Lyrical harp-player and composer
  • Tony McManus the best Celtic guitarist in the world (John Renbourn)
  • Ulli Bögershausen lyrical guitar player with a great touch
  • Urs Fuchs very groovy bass-player, percussionist, producer
  • Vicki Genfan The tapping, slapping queen of open tunings
  • Vladiswar Nadishana amazing Siberian multi-instrumentalist
  • Wofram (CVC) Clausbruch amazing guitarist, multi-instrumentalist …

• Guitar Sites

  • Avalon Guitars The guitars Ian endorses
  • Chordbook.Com guitar chords, scales and tuner
  • DR Strings The strings ian endorses and really uses!!

• Labels

  • Acoustic Music Records Label for Ian Solo & Leuchter-Melrose duo
  • Stockfisch Records
  • Westpark Music Kelpie & Talking Water

• other sites

  • Manfred Pollert “the” photographer of (not just) guitarists …
  • Overton Whistles great whistles by Colin Goldie

• Projects

  • Clannad
  • Kelpie Celtic-Scandinavian dream team
  • Leuchter-Melrose Duo World Accordion meets Fingerstyle Guitar
  • Norland Wind Celtic Trio including harp
  • Talking Water Celtic folk-pop
  • The Island Tapes Live Celtic music to archive film

• Publications

  • Acoustic Guitar USA magazine for the acoustic players
  • Akustik Gitarre German “bible” for acoustic guitarists
  • Fingerstyle World catalogue of fingerstylists from all over the world
  • Folker The main German folk magazine

• Studios

  • Cauldron Studios my favourite studio in Ireland
  • Surrealis Sounds my favourite sound engineer (Jörg Surrey) and favourite studio!