College hosting guitar festival

Published 8:21 am Monday, November 7, 2016

BENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Local musicians will come together for a free public Guitar Fest at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center.
LMC music students will perform along with a variety of southwest Michigan’s premier guitarists, including LMC guitar instructor Rob Lunn; master luthier Jan Burda; guitarist and Grammy Award-winning sound engineer Dave Carlock; Notre Dame and LMC guitar instructor Don Savoie and bassist Jonathan Kohn.
Educational clinics will be offered for electric, acoustic and base guitars, and ukulele.
Guitar Fest is free to attend and will be located in The Deckmann Studio of The Mendel Center on LMC’s Benton Harbor campus at 2755 E. Napier Avenue.
Contact Director of Music John Owens at jowens2@lakemichigancollege.edu with questions regarding Guitar Fest.
For information about LMC’s performing arts programs, visit www.lakemichigancollege.edu.