Voyage-Air sponsors the Nashville Music Business Directory

Shoring up its support for musicians in general and Nashville musicians in particular, Voyage-Air Guitar is a proud sponsor of the N M B D 2009-2010 edition. If you're a singer, songwriter, or musician that's interested in the Nashville music scene, you need this book!

The NMBD is a convenient-sized, 136 page guide that is packed with music information, color pictures of Nashville and priceless career advice from stars like Taylor Swift, Trisha Yearwood, Charlie Daniels, Craig Morgan, Aaron Tippen and more. Celebrating its 26th year of publication, the NMBD has become the top directory for the Nashville music and entertainment industry.

In fact, the NMBD has established itself as the main referral source for the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, directory assistance, musicians union, BMI, ASCAP, record labels and publishing companies. Why? It contains many listings not available in the Nashville Phone book!

Your local Voyage-Air Guitar dealer has (or can order) this book for you. Or you can order direct from the publisher at: www.NashvilleConnection.com.

Where Music Meets Art Hotel Indigo Nashville West End

And it's FREE! One night only, a host of Nashville's power songwriting talent gets together for a demonstration and tribute to Voyage-Air Guitars.

Drop by the Lounge at the Hotel Indigo West End on October 20, 7-10pm, and hear up-close and personal performances from some of the top songwriters in Nashville - all performing on their favorite Voyage-Air guitars!

Here's the lineup: Sarah Lenore, Lisa Carver, Lorna Flowers, Josh Dunne, Chris Wallin, Shawn Mayer, Dave Gibson, Mark Dreyer, Matt Kennon, Hollie Jett, Damien Horne, Pino Squillace and Dakota Grove (featuring Daisy Dern, Camille Wallin and Scott Sanford). If you don't recognize some of these names, you will remember them all by the end of this evening - guaranteed!

This will be an awesome evening of live music - all by musicians who are into the Voyage-Air guitar. If you're in Nashville, BE THERE!

Elliot Easton goes Voyage-Air

The Cars - smash-hit rockers from the 80s... Yeah! And Elliot Easton was lead guitar for their chart-topping tunes.

Recently, Elliot was a judge on the panel for the Guitar Player Live 2009 festival held in Livermore, CA. Elliot helped judge and pick the winner for Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Player of the Year award. Competition was intense, and the evening brought some amazing talent to stage before a host of hyper-critical judges. Having a SuperStar rock-veteran like Elliot Easton onboard for the judging was a must for competition at this level.

But you know what? Because the event was sponsored by Voyage-Air Guitar, Elliot had more than a bit of exposure to the breakthrough folding travel guitars. And by the end of the event, Elliot had to have one: he was on the phone to Michael Ferrucci, VP of Sales and Marketing at Voyage-Air. The problem? Elliot plays left-handed!

"Left-handed instruments are in the future for sure," said Ferrucci. "We want all guitar players to have a Voyage-Air guitar that's exactly right for their needs. In this case, we happened to have an experimental, early-production model that was professionally converted to a left-hand guitar. And YES - we're shipping that guitar to Elliot ASAP."

Cool! Stay tuned for pics and comments from Elliot and his new guitar!

Voyage-Air Makes the Cover:Guitar Player Annual Holiday Edition Ultimate Gear Guide

Well, maybe not a big thing. Wait, YES it is a big thing! A breakthrough guitar from a small company in California... a product that's been available for less than a year... made the cover of Guitar Player's Annual Holiday Edition "Ultimate Gear Guide."

And note: it's the only acoustic guitar on the cover of the magazine. This, against really special new guitars from the big big manufacturers. Heck yeah!

Fact is: the Voyage-Air guitar can transform the way you think about your music. It becomes natural to spend free minutes composing, practicing, jamming, or just playing when you always have your guitar with you. A breakthrough guitar? Worthy of a spot on the cover? Something really special that you need to check out? Yes, Yes, and YES.

Look for this 2009 Edition of Guitar Player's Annual Ultimate Gear Guide... oh, about the first week of November at newsstands everywhere.

Ronnie Montrose - Hands-on with Voyage-Air

Rock legend Ronnie Montrose took a break backstage at a recent gig, and had a chance to try a Voyage-Air Songwriter OM guitar. Veteran of the Edgar Winter group as well as his own band Montrose, Ronnie has worked with Herbie Hancock, Boz Scaggs, The Neville Brothers, Van Morrison and dozens of others.

Ronnie knows his way around a guitar. Period.

His comment? "Hey ... this is great! And it fits in that case and stays in tune? Noway. Why didn't they do this a long time ago?"

Indeed. And this was just a Songwriter.

We can't wait for his reaction to the upcoming Electric Voyage-Air!

Have an iPhone? You need this...

It's called Guitar Toolkit, and it's an application you can install on an iPhone (or a second-generation iPod Touch). Fact is, I always have my iPhone with me, and this application takes the place of a bunch of other stuff that I used to have to pack around.

What is Guitar Toolkit? Well... put it on your iPhone and you have: a tuner (for standard and dozens of altered tunings), a notated fretboard (showing notes and note positions for all tunings), a metronome, a chord finder, and ... all of this for a 6-string, 12-string, and bass guitar.

This is a seriously cool application, and will change the way you think about your guitar. I mean it. Suddenly: it's easy to find a chord, a variation of a chord, tune your guitar, practice difficult runs with a metronome... and all of this: with the iPhone that's already in my pocket.

Ever spend a relaxed afternoon, learning new music with keyboard (or other) players, when they call you out and say "wait, stop... that should be a C#M7sus!" Which is... what? Like I had memorized those finger positions for a chord I've never heard or played? Yep: Guitar Toolkit will show you that goofy chord with the flick of a finger.

I used to have a 'Favorite Tuner' and chord charts and etc that I would move among the cases for my guitars. Which meant I would sometimes get somewhere, missing the tuner that was packed with another guitar. This Guitar Toolkit solves all of that and so much more, and YES you need one.

Go to the App Store and search on Guitar Toolkit, from Agile Partners. Or check their website at: http://www.agilepartners.com/apps/guitartoolkit/

Roger Kardinal at Guitar Player LIVE 2009

Roger Kardinal is a familiar face to fans of the acoustic guitar in California's Bay Area and Central Valley. Roger is another convert to the Voyage-Air guitar, and carries one with him wherever he performs.

Here, he opens and gets started with a Voyage-Air at his performance for the Guitar Player LIVE 2009 festival in Livermore, CA.



It's amazing. Those professional musicians who love the convenience of a folding travel guitar are also amazed by how good it sounds, and how easy it plays. Roger is no exception, and loves to brag about the Voyage-Air before each performance.