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	A SONGWRITING Workshop with PETER MULVEY Saturday , January 14, 2006 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "Mulvey's way with a word and a melody leads to gem-like moments." - The Tab
	A FREE In-Store Concert by The Neptune Quartet Saturday , January 21, 2006 01:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments "...a sound we might call cosmopolitan bistro music, remembering...Django...."
	A FREE In-Store Concert by Louisiana's LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS Saturday , January 28, 2006 12:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments "...high-spirited and soulful...between country and cool" (and they sell Cajun Hot Sauce at their concerts!)
	"So You Want to Play the Mandolin?"--a Workshop by ALAN EPSTEIN Saturday , February 11, 2006 01:00 pm - 3:00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments Look no further! Mandolins are provided for this class, and you'll be playing your first tune!
	A Free MATTER AND GHOST Performance by Neil Woodward & Sheila Graziano Saturday , February 25, 2006 12:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments A FREE show by Matter and Ghost, highlighting traditional music, songs and dance representing American culture
	An Old-Time Stringband ENSEMBLE Workshop with NEIL WOODWARD Saturday , February 25, 2006 01:00 pm - 3:00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments Timid about playing with others? Unsure of the "protocol?" You're not alone anymore!
	A Beginners' CLOG-DANCING Workshop with SHEILA GRAZIANO Saturday , February 25, 2006 01:00 pm - 3.00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments Take this class and in 90 minutes you'll be clogging to live music!
	A FREE In-Store Concert with Midwest Favorites SETH BERNARD & DAISY MAY Saturday , March 04, 2006 12:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments A "wordmonger of the first order" plus a voice "between a cowgirl lilt and a honey warble."
	An Acoustic Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop with PAT DONOHUE Saturday , March 11, 2006 01:00 pm - 3:00 pm workshop ($40.00) Location: Elderly Instruments Tunes, turnarounds, and licks of legendary bluesmen, taught by a topnotch teacher
	"Foundations of Arranging for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar I" Workshop by BOB McCLOY Saturday , March 25, 2006 10:30 am - 12:30 pm workshop ($40.00 ) Location: Elderly Instruments "Solo guitar stands on its own, truly a portable piano" - Bob McCloy
	A FREE In-Store Bluegrass Concert by LARE WILLIAMS & NEW DIRECTION Saturday , March 25, 2006 12:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments "LWND" are returning to Elderly to share that "high lonesome sound"
	An Old-Time Banjo Workshop with Clawhammer Maestro JOEL MABUS Thursday , March 30, 2006 06:30 pm - 8:00 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "What I had in mind was...playing some favorite old time tunes...." - Joel Mabus, circa 1993
	A FREE In-Store Concert by Singer/Songwriter PHIL WINTERMUTE and Friends Saturday , April 08, 2006 12:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments ",,,the wisdom of an elder" with a "timeless wispy warble...."
	"Foundations of Arranging for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar II" Workshop by BOB McCLOY Saturday , April 15, 2006 10:30 am - 1230 pm workshop ($40.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "...It's all hands-on. Students learn by doing" - Bob McCloy
	A FREE In-Store Concert by San Francisco's STAIRWELL SISTERS Saturday , April 15, 2006 11:00 am in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments "...and a wall of sound approaching rock 'n' roll intensity" - Old-Time Herald
	"The Art of Arranging for Acoustic Guitar"--a Workshop by DAKOTA DAVE HULL Saturday , May 06, 2006 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm workshop ($40.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "...lush finger-picking and quicksilver flat-picking...also a sly raconteur...."
	A FREE In-store Concert by mid-Michigan Singer/Songwriter MEDICINE CROW Thursday , May 18, 2006 06:30 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments Ballads, blues, jazz, and a mix of "things spiritual and political"....
	The Creole Gallery presents Bill Evans--"One of the best banjo pickers on the planet." Thursday , June 01, 2006 07:30 pm concert ($14.00) Location: The Creole Gallery "High kudos to Bill Evans" - Tony Trischka
	A FREE Breedlove Concert/Clinic with Virtuoso RICHARD GILEWITZ--and FREE Prizes! Thursday , June 08, 2006 06:30 pm - 8:30 pm in-store event (free) Location: Elderly Instruments A little o' this, a little o' that--great fingerstyle guitar, humor, Q&A, prizes....
	Another FREE In-Store Concert by HONEST D & THE STEEL RESERVE Saturday , July 01, 2006 12:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments "They pride themselves on being entertainers as much as musicians."
	A Lap Slide/Hindustani Slide Guitar WORKSHOP with HARRY MANX Tuesday , July 11, 2006 05:30 pm - 7:00 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments Multi-instrumentalist Harry Manx has an especially high "wow" factor.
	A Blues Harmonica WORKSHOP with Harry Manx' protege STEVE MARRINER Tuesday , July 11, 2006 05:30 pm - 7:00 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "With players like this, the future of the blues is safe." - Bob Margolin on Steve Marriner
	A Ukulele Workshop with TRAVIS HARRELSON Saturday , July 22, 2006 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "'Tis no harder to play a 'drop dead, knockout' jazz chord, than it is to play the old dull one!" - Travis Harrelson
	A "Building Ukulele Technique" Workshop with Uke Wizard LIL' REV Thursday , September 28, 2006 06:30 pm - 8:00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "Listen to this! Lil' Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger
	A Blues Mandolin Workshop with Acoustic Roots Artist STEVE JAMES Thursday , October 12, 2006 05:30 pm - 7:00 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "...his hokum has all the wild, entertaining feel of the best good-time outfits of the 1930s..." - Living Blues
	A Boogie-Woogie Guitar Workshop with Blues/Ragtime Whiz DEL REY Thursday , October 12, 2006 05:30 pm - 7:00 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "Bored with the boys and their bottlenecks....? Then check out Del Rey...." - Folk Roots, U.K.
	A Bottleneck Blues Guitar Workshop with STEVE JAMES Thursday , October 12, 2006 07:00 pm - 8:30 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "This is raucous, rowdy, and deeply rooted music...and a real pleasure from start to finish" - Living Blues
	A Fingerstyle Ukulele Workshop with DEL REY Thursday , October 12, 2006 07:00 pm - 8:30 pm workshop ($30.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "Here is an artiste, who is indeed a first rate blues musician... [and] very much more than that." - Blueprint Magazine, U. K.
	A NOVICE MANDOLIN Workshop with ALAN EPSTEIN Saturday , October 14, 2006 10:30 am - 12:30 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments YOU can learn to play a tune on the mandolin in less than two hours!...
	A Fingerstyle AND Slide Guitar Workshop with Fingerstyle Wizard PETER LANG Thursday , October 19, 2006 06:00 pm - 8:00 pm workshop ($35.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "Nothing pretentious, streamlined, or new-agey here. Simply genius at work...." - Sing Out!
	A "Playing by Ear & Jamming" Banjo Workshop by ROSS NICKERSON Saturday , October 21, 2006 01:00 pm - 5:00 pm workshop ($60.00) Location: Elderly Instruments "...I would be the first to sign up for another [Nickerson] workshop be it Lansing, Detroit, or...." - a satisfied banjo student
	"Holiday Tunes for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar"-a Workshop with Bob McCloy Saturday , November 18, 2006 10:30 am - 12:30 pm workshop ($40) Location: Elderly Instruments Learn this festive fingerstyle music to ring in the happy holidays!
	A FREE In-Store Performance by The Kruger Brothers Saturday , December 09, 2006 03:00 pm in-store performance (free) Location: Elderly Instruments "Take a chance, take a chance....if you want to get somewhere, you gotta take a chance" - The Kruger Brothers