Stephen Bennett - Harp Guitar
Stephen Bennett
About Stephen Bennett
Whether playing his great-grandfather's harp guitar, his 1930 National Steel or a standard 6-string, Stephen Bennett is a musician to hear. His playing has won awards and critical praise. In live performance and on record, his diverse musical influences and interests are joined with a lifelong love affair with the sound of guitar strings.
New cd has arrived!
October 28th, 2010
It’s a beautiful day in New England today – and to top it off, my new cd In-A-Gadda-Da-Stephen arrived moments ago and is hereby declared to be available for purchase! The title of course, is a play on the classic rock tune by Iron Butterfly. The cd is a collection of arrangements for [...]
New cd heading to the presses!
September 20th, 2010
Okay, so they’re not really presses exactly, but you know what I mean. My new cd of rock tunes for harp guitar is very nearly ready to take the world by storm. Okay, maybe storm isn’t the right word. Nevertheless – it’s nearly here for your listening pleasure. Check back in [...]
Heading to Europe!
September 20th, 2010
Greetings all ~
I’ll be heading overseas this week to play some shows (and also to spend a little time sightseeing and visiting friends).
September – 24 – Schwerte – GERMANY
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New harp guitar projects with TrueFire
September 2nd, 2010
I’m in St. Petersburg, Florida this week working on 2 new projects of harp guitar instructional materials with TrueFire.com.
One is called Harp Guitar Basics and in it I present 5 tunes to get new harp guitarists going with these wonderful instruments. I teach in great detail The Water Is Wide, a beautiful [...]
Gigs in Connecticut
July 23rd, 2010
September 2nd update:
I had a great time playing in South Norwalk a few weeks ago at the SoNo festival – and another great time on the 28th at the Milford Fine Arts Center. It’s nice to be playing some live music in the state I now live in! More shows in Connecticut are [...]
Summer doings…
July 23rd, 2010
Greetings to the world. I’m clearly not so good at keeping up here as I haven’t written anything in a few months. Oh well…
The latest news, hmm, let’s see:
- The next cd project is rapidly nearing completion. This is the collection of rock tunes for harp guitar that I recorded a few months ago. It’s [...]
New Magazine Appearances
April 23rd, 2010
I hope everyone is enjoying the beauty of Spring.
For those of you interested, I’m in a couple of guitar magazines currently out on newsstands. There’s an article on harp guitars in Spring Issue of The Fretboard Journal in which my name appears not unfavorably. And for those of you who speak [...]
Recording for new cd finished!
March 30th, 2010
Greetings one and all,
I’m back home after a couple of weeks away. I spent the bulk of last week in the studio with my friend and intrepid recording engineer, Kim Person. Together we recorded the next cd. It’s my arrangements of an assortment of rock tunes from 1967-74. I picked [...]
Harp Guitar Gatherings
January 7th, 2010
The Eighth Annual Harp Guitar Gathering is scheduled for November 12-14, 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana. To have a look at our last event, held in Williamsburg, Virginia October 30 – November 1, 2009: click here Mind you, it was Halloween!
And to read a recent interview with my most illustrious partner in harp guitar [...]
On the cover with TE in Japan!!!
January 7th, 2010
I’m very excited to announce that I’m currently on the cover of Acoustic Guitar Book, the premiere Japanese acoustic guitar magazine, for their December issue. And I’m there with my friend (and the source of much inspiration) Tommy Emmanuel, which makes it even more of a delight for me. Tommy’s arguably the most [...]