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Wayne Henderson has been called the world’s greatest guitar maker. There’s a 10-year waiting list to get one of his guitars. He once made Eric Clapton wait seven years to get one.
The host of the annual Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival & Guitar Competition, Henderson is a past recipient of a National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the subject ...
The 18th Annual Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Grayson Highlands State Park—rain or shine.
This year, at the upcoming Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition on Saturday, June 18, the master craftsman and musician is giving away a guitar during the day-long celebration ...
WAYNEFEST: Wayne Henderson is a world-renowned guitar-maker (ask Eric Clapton), master picker and all-around good guy. He also puts on a heckuva festival in a beautiful setting.
Guitarists competing in the 15th annual Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition have a shot at a Henderson original, made of Brazilian rosewood and Virginia red spruce.
Mouth of Wilson, Va. — Registration is open for guitarists who wish to compete in the 23rd annual Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition at Grayson Highlands State Park.
Paste Studio “On The Road” rambles on, this time to Wilkesboro, N.C., for the 36th annual MerleFest! The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and features ...
Nick Keen, 15, of East Bend, N.C., won what had to be considered the big prize -- a Wayne Henderson guitar, the 373rd made by the blue-jean-clad Stradivarius of the steel-string guitar.
WAYNE Henderson pieced together his first guitar when he was only 12. Some 35 years and a couple of hundred guitars later, he got an order to build one for Eric Clapton – even though he&#8217… ...