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St. Louis MO. CBG Club/Workshop

We are organizing a CBG workshop held one Saturday a month at the 61 roadhouse & kitchen in Webster Groves MO. (St. Louis Area). This is also the home to the St. Louis CBG festival each year.

Bill Kunz of 61 has been generous in offering us a place to meet, practice, discussed ideas and what ever members decide to do with the time. Gary Herget and myself are contacts for this club and are open to ideas to make this a fun club. As soon as we have commitment from members, we can set up a Saturday each month to meet mornings. We haven't set a day or start time as of yet. We need to know who can commit at least to a start up and discuss as a group when and how we want to run this. Possibilities are great!

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Permalink Reply by gary herget on January 16, 2017 at 5:03am

Only 6 days to finish up your builds for the looper contest. Hope to see some really nice guits.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on January 17, 2017 at 2:00pm

Looking forward to seeing everyones builds! And jamming!

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Permalink Reply by smilingdog1 on January 21, 2017 at 12:09pm

Announcing the St. Louis Mo. Cigar Box Guitar Club builders contest was tough. We had six entries and the judges tied so we pulled in a forth judge which broke the tie. We judge on three areas, Fine (craftsmanship/play-ability) (re-purposing material) ( uniqueness that caught the eye). And the winner is Jason Carter with his vintage level lap steel. The pickups are hacked transformers/magnets, the jack was an RCA almost never seen, even the tuners were reshaped thumb screws. Very cool and as you can see him here with his son holding
Justin Johnson
loop station ready for some serious jams.

The contest was a blast and we will definitely be having more fun like this.

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Permalink Reply by smilingdog1 on January 21, 2017 at 4:45pm

We are announcing Februaries Club event theme. Calling all swamp witch guitars to the Swampy Jam!

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Permalink Reply by smilingdog1 on January 25, 2017 at 7:24pm

I usually only get a few tags here on the nation but honestly our festival is growing exponentially and local TV and radio plays a big part. I foresee us filling the street and busing folks in just ahead of us because we are over flowing onto the sidewalks now. We remain flexible to change and move on new ideas. Our greatest success is keeping cost down and free to the public. We hire great PR teams and get the event out to a larger crowd. I'm sharing this to not only cultivate interest but to encourage others starting up their own festivals. Locations are important to a point however I feel your event attracts people if it has the atmosphere generated by you that you yourself would enjoy and a momentum that continues throughout the day. Justin Johnson has played all our events and consistently packs the house shoulder to shoulder, literally. This is out 5th and I will step back from vending and be more PR and video photographer. One of my greatest joys comes from meeting new people and sharing our event with other events through gift swamping. It's almost caught on, BSA of France helps keep that going and we invite more so we can globalize this unique subculture.

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Permalink Reply by smilingdog1 on January 29, 2017 at 8:23pm

2017 5th annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival St. Louis MO.

Time: June 3, 2017 from 12pm to 6pm
Location: Hwy61roadhouse & Kitchen
Street: 34 S Old Orchard Ave.
City/Town: St. Louis, MO 63119
Website or Map: http://hwy61roadhouse.com
Phone: (314) 968-0061
Event Type: root, instruments, and, music
Organized By: smilingdog1 - AKA Steven Miles, Gary Herget and Bull Kunz

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on January 30, 2017 at 12:51am

So it's kind of like going to one of our jam session/get togethers. Only with tents and lots of people. LOL REALLY looking forward to this years fest!

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Permalink Reply by smilingdog1 on February 4, 2017 at 6:27pm

https://youtu.be/xLGJuWjncVo

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Permalink Reply by smilingdog1 on February 18, 2017 at 6:06pm

Couple nice guys up at the recruiting office signed the swamp witch, showing support for those returning.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on February 19, 2017 at 6:37am

awesome picture . and an honor ;-)

thanx for posting ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on June 10, 2017 at 6:28am

I have a vid of that awesome guitar getting raffled off. Thanks again Anonymous! I'll have to get it uploaded.

You know how excited I was to be able to go to this months meetup? I drove all the way into St Louis today. That's right. One week early. Thought it best not to wait. Figured I'd really need a shower by next Sat. : ) Hope I can make it then too.