| Martin Introduces The HD-35 Nancy Wilson "Heart" Signature Edition Guitar
After more than 30 years as guitarist, songwriter and singer for Heart, Nancy Wilson knows fine acoustic guitars. Much of the credit for the beauty and tone of the Martin HD-35 Nancy Wilson Signature Edition guitar goes to Wilson herself, who collaborated closely with Martin on the design. A rare combination of premium solid tonewoods gives the HD-35 Nancy Wilson Signature Edition distinctive tonal character. The top of beautiful Engelmann spruce - a tree that grows in the Northwest, where Heart got its start - combines with forward-shifted scalloped braces for full, powerful tone. The sides and the three-piece back wings are East Indian rosewood, while the center wedge is "heart" bubinga, a beautiful and unusually hard African tonewood that provides outstanding projection. A Pisces fish Yin Yang design is inlaid in rare pink heart abalone, mother of pearl and red composite beneath the Old Style "C.F.
HD-35 Nancy Wilson "Heart" Signature Edition Guitar
Much of the credit for the beauty and tone of the Martin HD-35 Nancy Wilson Signature Edition guitar goes to Wilson herself, who collaborated closely with Martin on the design. A rare combination of premium solid tonewoods gives the HD-35 Nancy Wilson Signature Edition distinctive tonal character. The top of beautiful Engelmann spruce - a tree that grows in the Northwest, where Heart got its start - combines with forward-shifted scalloped braces for full, powerful tone. The sides and the three-piece back wings are East Indian rosewood, while the center wedge is "heart" bubinga, a beautiful and unusually hard African tonewood that provides outstanding projection. A Pisces fish Yin Yang design is inlaid in rare pink heart abalone, mother of pearl and red composite beneath the Old Style "C.F.
Mews launches PopFest with success
Another puzzle piece in downtown Des Moines cultural Renaissance fell into place Thursday with the first of three nights of the inaugural Midwest PopFest at Vaudeville Mews.
Not to heap undue significance on a club show that drew 100 or fewer bodies on a rainy night, but it was an auspicious launch and ambitious lineup nonetheless. The three-day fest is intended as an annual rally for both local and national indie-pop acts bands whose only common denominator, really, is a deep love of eclecticism.
The launch wasnt free of snags. The first bands keyboardist arrived late, so Matt Ryan jumped on stage with the rest of Like Knives in time for the third song of gleeful geek-pop. Rain shut down the outdoor stage in the courtyard, so Java Joes Coffeehouse next door accommodated a makeshift second stage for acts such as Sedalia (solo singer-guitarist Ross Nervig).
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