Rosewood Guitar

05/06/2025

05/06/2025

GiveBIG, Washington's largest online giving event, starts TODAY!

Take a part in our mission to promote the art of the classical guitar in the Greater Seattle Area by building and sustaining a diverse community of students, performers and listeners through concerts, master classes, performance opportunities, gatherings and outreach.

Any donation you make to SCGS through GiveBIG will help us reach our community involvement goals. Thank you in advance for your donation and for being a part of our mission. 

Click this link or the link on our bio to make a donation:
https://www.wagives.org/organization/Seattle-Classic-Guitar-Society

01/01/2025

There are so many ways to participate in Wintergrass - it's an exhilarating Choose Your Own Adventure! Whether you attend shows, jam till the wee hours, try out a new instrument/skill or fine-tune an established one in one of the many workshops and intensives, or just soak it all in - there's something for everyone.

And we absolutely couldn't do it without YOU! As the end of the year approaches, we'd like to thank our patrons, who are instrumental in making the music, the community, and the opportunities to discover and learn available to all. Your support directly impacts the festival - YOU bring in the artists, support our education programs, and spread joy. We couldn't ask for a better gift this year!

If you'd like to make an end-of-year gift to Wintergrass at any level, you can do so here: https://givebutter.com/y8icBh

Would you like to support us monthly? It's easy and it feels great! Here's where you can do that:
https://givebutter.com/pI3don

Thank you from all of us!

12/13/2024

10/10/2024

Today's featured Intensive Instructor: Douglas Lora
Now a member of Mike Marshall's Choro Famoso, Douglas performed at Wintergrass in 2020 with Trio Brasileiro. He is is also well-known in the PNW as an instructor at Centrum Foundation's Brazilian Choro Workshop in Port Townsend, WA and is the newest member of the award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.. (Bio below)

Registration for Intensives, including the Never Too Late Adult Academy, is now open. Here is one handy link to register for all classes:
https://events.humanitix.com/wintergrass-2025/tickets

Three time Grammy nominee guitarist and composer Douglas Lora moves with versatility through the worlds of Classical and Popular Music, and has established himself as one of the most prominent artists of his generation.

With his wide musical repertoire, Douglas has collaborated with renowned artists such as YoYo Ma, Paquito d’Rivera, Assad Brothers, Anat Cohen, Marco Pereira, Jovino Santos Neto, Ney Rosauro, Marina Piccinini, Paulo Bellinati, among others.

As a member of the award-winning Brasil Guitar Duo, Trio Brasileiro and Caraivana, Douglas has performed extensively at the most important theaters and concert halls in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Douglas Lora is the newest member of the award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

His teaching experiences date from a young age in Brazil and were consolidated in the United States as a part-time teacher at the University of Miami, as well as a guitar instructor at the Miami Conservatory of Music, from 2004 to 2006. Currently, Douglas is pursuing his Doctoral degree at University of Southern California under Scott Tennant, being the recipient of a Teacher Assistant scholarship. Douglas Lora is the guitar instructor and course coordinator at California State University, Fullerton, and at Centrum, in Port Townsend, WA

10/04/2024

Take a deep dive into the topics you love! Registration for Wintergrass Intensives is now open. Five morning classes (10am-1pm), and five afternoon classes (2pm-5pm), all on Thursday.
We are once again offering our Never Too Late Adult Academy on Saturday, from 10am-3pm, led by Cliff Perry and Emmett Pritchard. Here is the link to register for all classes: https://events.humanitix.com/wintergrass-2025/tickets

Our Intensives Instructors: Kimber Ludiker; Jacob Jolliff; Beppe Gambetta; Joe Craven; Mike Marshall; Douglas Lora; John Showman and Chris Coole (Lonesome Ace Stringband); Orville Johnson; and Don Share & Sue Thompson.

09/25/2024

09/25/2024

Here is your Wintergrass 2025 Lineup!

Last year, we went north. This year, we're going global. If the 2025 lineup were a box of matches it would contain at least 30 different ways to spark joy. From the familiar to the first-time-ever-at-Wintergrass, all the way to never-would-I-ever-have-thought-of-that, there is something that sounds either like home or where you'd like to build your next house. Consider your ticket to Wintergrass 2025 your Passport to Joy!

Ticket link: https://events.humanitix.com/wintergrass-2025

01/27/2024

01/16/2024

Support Wintergrass

One of our favorite events of the year is the Wintergrass Festival held this year February 22-25th at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.

We are showing our support by asking you to join us in the Road to Wintergrass fundraising efforts. You can join Team Rosewood here https://givebutter.com/c/KXgZEA to make a donation to support this incredible musical event. We will be there again showing guitars at the Fretboard Journal Vintage Guitar Workshop and at the Wintergrass Vintage Guitar Museum.

This year’s lineup includes: Mighty Poplar, Tony Trischka’s EarlJam, Tim O’Brien Band, Eli West, Mr Sun, Vasen+Hawktail, Laurie Lewis & Nina Ge**er, John Reischman & Old Acoustic, Pharis & Jason Romero, The Paper Boys, Anna Tivel, Nick Dumas & Branchline, Whiskey Deaf, and more… In addition to concerts there will be workshops for guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, bass, singing, songwriting, jamming and much much more!

For more information on concerts, artist, workshops, jamming and fun go to https://wintergrass.com/

Support Wintergrass join Team Rosewood
https://givebutter.com/c/KXgZEA

03/02/2023

https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/benaroyahall/bh-calendar/2022-2023/22scgs3

02/18/2023

If you’re looking for a whole lot of really great music come to the Wintergrass Festival February 23-26. Four days of concerts, workshops and fun!!

https://www.facebook.com/WintergrassMusicFestival

We’ll be there for the Fretboard Journal Vintage Instrument Tasting Session (with Darrell Scott and Matt Flinner!) and the Musical Instrument Museum with some guitars from Rosewood’s private collection including a mid-1800s Aubry Maire, 1848 James Ashborn, ca. 1870 Martin 2-18, 1902 Martin 1-28, 1903 Martin 0-21, 1880s Washburn harp guitar, 1907 Gibson L-1 archtop, 1907 Gibson A-style mandolin and more!