17 Year Old British Guitar Phenom ZOE MCCULLOCH To Perform At Nokie Edwards Festival
Dave Brodsky
NOKIE EDWARDS MUSIC FESTIVAL (HARRISBURG, OR), JULY 4TH & 5TH 2003
NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 14, 2003 - 17 year old British guitar phenom, Zoe
McCulloch, has been invited to perform at the 4th Annual Nokie Edwards
Music Festival (Harrisburg, OR) during the Independence Day holiday
weekend of July 4th -5th. Zoe's appearance will mark the third time
that she has appeared at "Nokiefest". Zoe's participation in this
prestigious festival marks the kickoff of a month long tour of the
U.S. which will take her to New York City, Nashville, Tulsa, Austin,
Dallas, and San Antonio.
Zoe McCulloch was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the North of England.
When Zoe was just 11years old she became part of "The Youngstars on
Guitars" project and toured all over Europe learning her craft. Zoe
was invited by Ex-Shadow, Jet Harris, to play a duet with him on one
of his albums when she was 13 years old. Shortly after that she
produced her own album of Shadows and other instrumental heroes, "Zoe
With Love". This was to be the last time Zoe was to cover other
people's instrumentals and she set about arranging her own
instrumental covers of great songs. The first attempt was to cover
some Abba tracks. As a result she was voted best new artist that year
by the Instrumental Rock Guitar Hall of Fame and in Brazil they
started calling her the Queen of the Stratocaster when she was still
only 14 years old at the time. A change of studio, amp and musical
director resulted in two critically acclaimed albums, "Girls With
Guitars" (2002), and "Never Give Up Never Give In" (2003). The great
Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel heard Zoe's CDs and loved her tone
and touch. In 2001 Tommy Introduced Zoe to the Chet Atkins convention
in Nashville. While there she ended up on Muriel Anderson's "All Star
Guitar Night". Backstage at this event Zoe was honored and privileged
to meet her idol and mentor, Nokie Edwards (of Ventures fame). Zoe
enthusiastically proclaims, "Nokie is not only a great guitar player
he is a lovely, lovely man. We got on great and before the end of the
show he invited me to play at his festival. From that day on we have
become truly good friends. I love the man. He is like my Granddad in
America." Zoe has since played with Nokie on many occasions, and
introduced him to England for the first time. Earlier this year Zoe
was the special guest artist of The Ventures on a Cruise to Baja from
Los Angeles.
Nokie Edwards is universally recognized as one of the world's premier
guitarists. In 1959, while playing lead guitar for Buck Owens, Nokie
was approached by guitarists Don Wilson and Bob Bogle who asked Nokie
to join and form a band later known as The Ventures. The Ventures went
on to become the seminal surf/instrumental rock band of its era. The
group had a number of hit singles while Nokie toured with them
including ‘Walk Don't Run', ‘Hawaii Five-O', and
‘Wipe Out'. Nokie left The Ventures in 1968 and returned in
1972. He left again in 1984 to pursue his own career which enabled
him to play all styles of music. (However, he has never lost his love
for The Ventures sound or The Ventures themselves, and still tours
Japan performing with the group.) During the past ten years Nokie has
been traveling around the world entertaining old and new fans alike.
He continues to diversify his music career by composing new songs and
adding new arrangements to his favorite songs. His concerts consist
of the famous hit songs of The Ventures as well as Nokie's favorite
country, classical, light jazz, bluegrass, and "oldies" hits.
The 4th Annual Nokie Edwards Music Festival (which includes music, a
car and bike festival, and a guitar clinic) will take place July 4th
and 5th . The Festival will bring together world famous guitarists, a
selection of several hundred classic cars and motorcycles, and
enthusiasts from throughout North America. The weekend event is one
big family party, hosted by Nokie and his wife, Judy Edwards. [The
festival is located at 23005 N. Corburg Road, Harrisburg, OR (16 miles
north of Eugene, OR); phone: (541) 995-9279; website:
www.nokieedwards.org].
Zoe McCulloch's website is located at www.zoemcculloch.com.
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For further information: dasb...@hotmail.com
Rick N. Backer
spewed forth:
The benchmark for phenomena must be a lot lower these days. She
sounded very ordinary to me. And I did give the mp3s on her site a
listen.
Richard
"Rick N. Backer" <ken.w...@NsOhSaPw.cAaM> wrote in message
> The benchmark for phenomena must be a lot lower these days. She
> sounded very ordinary to me. And I did give the mp3s on her site a
> listen.
All the talented young musicians are doing sampling, not playing
instruments.
Richard
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:40:37 GMT, "Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >All the talented young musicians are doing sampling, not playing
> >instruments.
>
> instrument, are they considered to be a musician or a technician?
Depends on who's doin' the considering, I suppose.
In absolute purist terms, if you're not playing in a symphony orchestra
you're not a musician.
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"Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> c1su...@hotmail.comNOSPAM wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:40:37 GMT, "Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >All the talented young musicians are doing sampling, not playing
> > >instruments.
> >
> > If somebody's doing sampling instead of playing a musical
> > instrument, are they considered to be a musician or a technician?
>
> Depends on who's doin' the considering, I suppose.
>
> In absolute purist terms, if you're not playing in a symphony orchestra
> you're not a musician.
Dang, and me playing with that early music chamber orchestra. Oh well.
Robert Barker
> The benchmark for phenomena must be a lot lower these days. She
> sounded very ordinary to me. And I did give the mp3s on her site a
> listen.
If it wasn't for age and sex, that's exactly what she WOULD be. I saw some
'folkie' they're hyping on TV the other day. Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, even
Judy Collins (the lesser of the three, IMO) she ain't. And the Ventures
guitarist is now a 'great' guitarist?? Not based on anything I've
heard...and, WTF is 'Lite Jazz'?? I heard a Kenny G tune on the radio the
other day, and you know what? Metheney is right...the guy does play
flat...sometimes horribly so....They shoulda shot the engineer on that
tune...and the producer..
reddred
> > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:40:37 GMT, "Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >All the talented young musicians are doing sampling, not playing
> > >instruments.
> >
> > If somebody's doing sampling instead of playing a musical
> > instrument, are they considered to be a musician or a technician?
>
> Depends on who's doin' the considering, I suppose.
>
> In absolute purist terms, if you're not playing in a symphony orchestra
> you're not a musician.
>
In purist terms, it is anyone who composes or plays music. It does tend to
mean someone who plays an instrument.
While it doesn't exclude people who 'do sampling', it's pretty naive to
think that 'all the talented young musicians' are not playing traditional
instruments. Besides, about 99 percent of the talentless losers are 'doing
sampling', so what exactly are you trying to say? And what does it say that
'most of the people' who have been doing samples and loops for fifteen years
are focusing now on traditional skills, like playing a keyboard perhaps, if
they weren't damn good to begin with.
jb
Richard
"reddred" <opaloka....@yahoo.com> wrote >
> > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:40:37 GMT, "Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >All the talented young musicians are doing sampling, not playing
> > > >instruments.
> > >
> > > If somebody's doing sampling instead of playing a musical
> > > instrument, are they considered to be a musician or a technician?
> >
> > Depends on who's doin' the considering, I suppose.
> >
> > In absolute purist terms, if you're not playing in a symphony orchestra
> > you're not a musician.
>
> In purist terms, it is anyone who composes or plays music. It does tend to
> mean someone who plays an instrument.
Yeah, but it ABSOLUTE purist terms I mentioned, it does means someone who
plays an instrument. In a symphony orchestra.
Not that I'm normally so anal about it, but if you're going to split hairs
just so you can bust some chops...
> While it doesn't exclude people who 'do sampling', it's pretty naive to
> think that 'all the talented young musicians' are not playing traditional
> instruments.
Yeah, I guess you got me there. I played with a 17-year-old little Pat
Martino Jr. a couple of years back, and Julliard et al don't seem to be
hurting for qualified applicants. Lots of counterexamples to my assertion
exist. One would think that I maybe I was just taking some liberties with
the use of English in order to make a chuckle, or something.
> Besides, about 99 percent of the talentless losers are 'doing
> sampling', so what exactly are you trying to say?
One guy's talentless loser is another man's Eminem.
Where'd you come up with that 99% number, anyway?
> And what does it say that
> 'most of the people' who have been doing samples and loops for fifteen
years
> are focusing now on traditional skills, like playing a keyboard perhaps,
if
> they weren't damn good to begin with.
I've tried several times, and I'm not sure what that sentence means.
Take a couple of humor pills and post again in the morning?
reddred
>
> "reddred" <opaloka....@yahoo.com> wrote >
> > "Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > c1su...@hotmail.comNOSPAM wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:40:37 GMT, "Richard" <rh...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >All the talented young musicians are doing sampling, not playing
> > > > >instruments.
> > > >
> > > > If somebody's doing sampling instead of playing a musical
> > > > instrument, are they considered to be a musician or a technician?
> > >
> > > Depends on who's doin' the considering, I suppose.
> > >
> > > In absolute purist terms, if you're not playing in a symphony
orchestra
> > > you're not a musician.
> >
> > In purist terms, it is anyone who composes or plays music. It does tend
to
> > mean someone who plays an instrument.
>
> Yeah, but it ABSOLUTE purist terms I mentioned, it does means someone who
> plays an instrument. In a symphony orchestra.
>
Those people need to read a dictionary.
> > While it doesn't exclude people who 'do sampling', it's pretty naive to
> > think that 'all the talented young musicians' are not playing
traditional
> > instruments.
>
> Yeah, I guess you got me there. I played with a 17-year-old little Pat
> Martino Jr. a couple of years back, and Julliard et al don't seem to be
> hurting for qualified applicants. Lots of counterexamples to my assertion
> exist. One would think that I maybe I was just taking some liberties with
> the use of English in order to make a chuckle, or something.
>
I guess it's an issue, but you sounded like you wanted to fight. I just
think this whole thing about instruments going away is just as much BS as it
was 20 years ago.. trends in pop go back and forth, but people still like to
play.
> > Besides, about 99 percent of the talentless losers are 'doing
> > sampling', so what exactly are you trying to say?
>
> One guy's talentless loser is another man's Eminem.
>
Eminem a talentless loser? No, really? Actually, he beats the pants off the
other hit rappers from last year, but that aint saying much.
> Where'd you come up with that 99% number, anyway?
>
Really, there does seem to be a move towards sample based music on the free
internet sites at least, but it seems to me that most of the stuff I get a
hold of is sample based because the kids are too lame to learn about music
or learn an instrument, not because they want to do something with samples
that can't be done with an instrument.
> > And what does it say that
> > 'most of the people' who have been doing samples and loops for fifteen
> years
> > are focusing now on traditional skills, like playing a keyboard perhaps,
> if
> > they weren't damn good to begin with.
>
> I've tried several times, and I'm not sure what that sentence means.
>
It means this is all old news. If a million kids get a hold of a cracked
version of Acid and string some loops together, it means diddly. The first
big hit that was sample-based was 'owner of a lonely heart'. That was a long
time ago. Samples, loops, all of it, it's all been done to death since then.
A lot of people catch a hold of something as it's starting to get less
interesting and fade away, like rap, for instance.
> Take a couple of humor pills and post again in the morning?
>
Make a funny.
jb