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Strings attached

Arsenios Corbishley Photo by Shannon Cornman It’s a delight to watch luthier Arsenios Corbishley in action at his shop, Corbishley Violins, in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, 1 Park Ave. Corbishley is an artist-in-residence in the Skirvin’s yearlong program, and you can visit his shop at the Skirvin and have a chat while he works. “I […]

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Tapping tradition

Wayne Cantwell Photo: Mark Hancock An Irish jam session, known as a seisiún in Irish Gaelic, includes an array of musical instruments. Most often, one would find a combination of fiddle; button accordion; flute; tin whistle; guitar; tenor banjo; piano; uilleann (elbow) pipes; and a bodhrán, a goatskin Irish drum. The bouzouki, a Greek stringed […]

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Look who’s Tonking

Like a local Zelig, Friedman — whose father owned Horn Trader Music, where many local musicians got their start — was the mastermind behind Inner State Studio, which produced such acts as The Reverb Brothers, as well as being the brains behind the Acoustic Oklahoma online series. But at the height of his success, he […]

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