The Nashville NAMM SHOW.  
July 17-19, 2009

We had a lot of great players and dealers come and visit at the 2009 Nashville NAMM show.  Wish we could have seen you all.  Four new models were introduced at this small show...we just couldn't wait.  We brought an O style, OO style, Small Jumbo and even a Parlor size in a coffin case! 

 

 The guitars were beautiful and well received.  You can see pictures of them here.  Below are pictures of some of our dealers, artists and friends that stopped by the booth. 

Thanks for looking! 

 Bonni Lloyd & Dana Bourgeois

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Flatpicking great Bryan Sutton stopped by to play the new guitars and to give us a copy of his new CD "Almost Live" !  Bryan used his trusty D-150 on the recording.  

At one point we had Russ Barenburg, Bryan Sutton, Scott Fore, Brooks & Dunn guitar player, Tony King and Mike Fuller playing our guitars out in the hallway.  It was too noisy in the booth so we went out behind the lunchroom and sat around and played!   

And, the day before the show, Danick Dupelle of "Emerson Drive" came up to Dana's room and played all the NAMM guitars.  Danick just got one of our very first OO's (Mah & Sitka) and loves it.

Dana checking out the Parlor guitar 

 

(Dana & Randy Kohrs)

Grammy winning producer, Dobro Player and Bourgeois buddy, Randy Kohrs always comes by to say hi and check out what's new.  

Nashville Studio Session player Andy Day shows off the back of the JOMC in Walnut!  

Dana and Bourgeois player, Skip Cherryholmes  

  

Our good friend and D-150 player Dave Brown and Chris Martin!

 

Brothers Ted & John Osborne, songwriters and hot pickers.  John plays a Slope D.  Keep a look out for them. Check John's band, Kingbilly  here: http://www.myspace.com/kingbillyband

"Victoria" .  No. 5000.  In her own hand built  "coffin case".  This was a real show-stopper.  Learn about this milestone guitar for us here.  

Bourgeois player Scott Nygaard.   Scott plays a rare Custom Country Boy Deluxe in Cocobolo.  

Our new friend, Tony King of Brooks & Dunn couldn't make up his mind on his favorite at our booth.  I think he finally settled on the Small Jumbo. 

We also got in a nice visit with Jack Pearson.  He adimired the new OO and noted that we finally had a guitar that was the perfect size for him.  Check out who this guy has played with.

And it is always great to hear our friend and Bourgeois endorser Scott Fore play our guitars.  Scott is one of the finest players in the world and we are proud that he loves his Bourgeois guitars.  Check out his Hillbilly HotClub at www.myspace.com/thehillbillyhotclub 

 

Here he is with Dana and Skip Cherryholmes

(Scott Fore, Dana & Skip Cherryholmes)

(Harvey Reid)

Songwriter & Multi- instrumentalist  extraordinaire, Harvey Reid.  Harvey played his Bourgeois all over the  beautiful 4 CD Boxed Set called The Song Train he released this year with his wife Joyce Anderson.  Check it out here:   http://www.songtrain.net/   or in the Sept 2009 issue of "Acoustic Guitar" magazine.  

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We also need to thank our Japanese Distributor, Rokkomann International for believing in our guitars, and for working so hard to bring them to their part of the world.   The photos below show Dana and Shotaro Kido of Rokkomann.

(Dana and Shotaro Kido)

We love our dealers.  We search high and low to find great shops that will take good care of our guitars and take the best care of you, our customers.  Here are some of the dealers that visited us.  They are the best!

Todd Skaw of Guitars, Etc in Longmont Colorado visited and had some fun with Dana:

(Todd Skaw & Dana with parlor)

And here's Steve Miklas of Acoustic Music Works.  Steve took the beautiful DB Signature OM Burst back to his shop in Pittsburgh.    

(Steve Miklas)

Our friends Stan Jay, Bea and George of Staten Island's Mandolin Brothers.  

(Left:  Stan Jay, Bea & George,  Right:  Me and Stan)                   

Here's George Gruhn of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville checking out the Parlor!  

(George Gruhn)

And here are our friends from Artisan Guitars in Nashville.  Ellie, W.T. and Bill Warmoth host a great dinner on Thursday before the show starts.  They give us a wonderful home-cooked meal to fortify us for the show!  Ellie is the best cook I know!  And they've got a great store too!  

(Ellie, W.T. Dana & Bill)

I didn't get pictures of all of our great dealers that stopped by.  

We also saw our friend Pat Rutland from Rutland's Music in Valdosta Georgia.  

And Wil and Julie from Spruce Tree Music in Wisconsin.  They took home the OMS Cutaway in Redwood & Figured Walnut beauty.  

We also saw our old friend Mike Fuller from Fuller's Guitars in Texas.  Nice to see him!  

Thanks for your interest in our guitars.  Support your local music store whenever possible and whatever else seems hard to do, keep playing!

Page last updated:  July 28, 2009