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| Gibson Summer Jam Gibson Guitar announced the 1st Annual Gibson Summer Jam and the official opening of its new Gibson Custom factory and headquarters which will be celebrated with a 3-day extravaganza July 28-30, 2006. Press are invited to attend a series of daily guitar clinics hosted by such legendary performers as jazz great Larry Carlton and guitar techs Greg Howard from Aerosmith and Kevin Brier from INXS. On July 28, Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz will join Carlton at a special ribbon cutting ceremony officially opening the new Gibson Custom plant at Elm Hill Pike. Tours of the new facility along with expert luthier appearances will also take place each day. Press are invited to attend and cover. All Gibson divisions will be represented at the event. On Friday July 28, 2006 Devon Allman's Honeytribe and Marty Casey and the Lovehammers (Rockstar:INXS) perform. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will host the regional finals of the Fortune Battle of the Bands on Saturday, July 29, 2006 beginning at 5pm and in the evening press will enjoy special performances by country great Lee Roy Parnell, award winning female artist Gretchen Wilson and legendary rock group Cheap Trick. The 6th annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands will hold their qualifying regional finals for the very first time at the Gibson Custom Summer Jam on Saturday. Six corporate bands made of up musicians who would rather quit their day jobs to make music will compete for a place in the final competition to be held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in October in Cleveland, Ohio. The competing corporate bands include executives from "The Loaners" from Quicken Loans (Livonia MI), "VanGo" from Bank of Montreal Financial Group (Chicago IL), "Soul Focus" from American Century Investments (Kansas City MO), "Center Stage" from Wells Fargo (Minneapolis MN), "SUGI Band" from SAS Institute (Rocky Hill, CT), "Miller Rhythm & Brews Revue" from Miller Brewing Company (Milwaukee, WI). Competition begins Saturday. Band members range from men and women in executive suites to mailroom workers and truck drivers. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |