Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project

Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project

Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project

Friday, November 17 at 8:00 PM
General Admission $18 Folkus Members $15

"One guitar. One week. One song."

The 10th annual Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project features Chris Merkley, Tiesha McNeal, Ryan Burdick, Alison Mullan-Stout and Loren Barrigar.

The Acoustic Guitar Project is an international songwriting project that originated in New York City and has spread around the world, from Amsterdam to Asheville, Havana to Hanoi, Minneapolis to Moscow, and São Paulo to...Syracuse.

In each city, a guitar circulates from songwriter to songwriter, and each person has one week to write a song on that guitar, capture it on a handheld recorder, sign their names to the guitar and pass it along. This year’s Syracuse-area songwriters will be announced as they complete their songs. Each will perform the new songs (as well as other originals) in this unique concert presented by the Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project and Folkus.  

The Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project began in 2014, curated by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, with a guitar handmade in Maryland by Minor Bird Instruments. To date, 55 songs have been written on the Syracuse guitar.

The project was created to help musicians reconnect to the original moment that inspired them to be singer/songwriters. Rodgers says the beauty of the project is its spontaneity. Songwriters may go into the project thinking they’ll write a particular kind of song, but often finish the week with a drastically different creation. Join us as we listen to where the guitar takes them. 

 “We’re definitely one of the smaller places [with an Acoustic Guitar Project] out there but I feel like the music scene here can hold its own against the music scene in all these much larger places.” --Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Acoustic Guitar Project curator, quoted in Syracuse New Times 

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.

 

Onondaga County Seal BW – ArtRage Gallery This project is made possible with funds from the Tier Three Project Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of the County Executive and administered by CNY Arts.  

 ~ This project is also made possible through the support and generosity of our Folkus members. ~

Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project photography by Jack Bocchino

In memory of Jack O. Bocchino, 1952–2020. Music: "Twenty One Rounds" by Mike Powell. Listen to all the songs: http://theacousticguitarproject.com/project/syr...