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Electronic Sheet Music Downloads now at CGT Direct!
New at CGT Direct:
Sheet Music and Tabs for Download

Latest CGT News:

Hear the CGT on Live from Tin Angel

CGT Downloadable Sheet Music

Live MP3 Album Download from Boulder Theater

CGT Featured on Katrina Relief Benefit CD

Jon Anderson, TLev and the CGT Jam at NAMM

Whitewater now in stores

CGT Japan Website On-Line

All Songs Considered selects CGT Tune

CGT DVD - Following the Music




Click Here for California Guitar Trio Tour Dates

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CGT LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA!

The CGT recently performed for National Public Radio courtesy of WXPN at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia. Interview and live performance. Classic CGT music, as well as previously unlreleased material including "Andromeda". Listen here...

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CGT DIRECT OFFERS CGT SHEET MUSIC WITH TABS ONLINE

Over the past few months the CGT has received many requests for scores from fans, most of them young guitar students. In response to this demand we have decided to post the scores on our website at low price of $7.95.

Melrose Avenue is the first piece available and in time we look forward to having a complete catalog of CGT pieces online, we hope in the near future.

The pieces will be in the Adobe PDF format, and compressed into a zip file, with four separate files contained in each each zip file: one complete score with three parts, and three individual parts with both musical notation and tabs as played by Bert, Paul and Hideyo. Click Here for more info.

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Live at the Boulder Theater with Tony Levin

Available Exclusively through CGT Direct MP3 Album Downloads:

CGT Direct Collectors Series Volume 3
Live at the Boulder Theater with Tony Levin

Live at the Boulder Theater with Tony Levin

Recorded Live by CGT soundman Tyler Trotter, this superb recording includes the first movement of the Jon Anderson Guitar Concerto, music from the Penguin Café Orchestra (featured in the film Napoleon Dynamite), a new surf cover from the Ventures, an improvisation with guest violinist Sandra Wong, and other recent material performed live at the Boulder Theater. Order and Listen Today!

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"AFTER THE STORM" KATRINA BENEFIT ALBUM AVAILABLE

Pre-ordering is now available for the "After the Storm". The price for this special 2CD compilation is $20.00 plus shipping and handling. The album is set for release on Tuesday, January 17th. Pre-orders will be fulfilled upon receipt of payment and then sent out for arrival as close to the release date as possible. Payment is accepted via PayPal, credit card (using PayPal without a membership), check or money order. Thank you for supporting this effort and the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Please go to http://afterthestorm.nearfestrecords.com to place your order.

SUMMARY
"After the Storm" is an effort by the progressive rock community to do its share to help out the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. All of the artists involved have graciously donated music to this project, and many have contributed previously unreleased live or studio material, including New Orleans' own Woodenhead. The costs of manufacturing have been donated by NEARfest and NEARfest Records and all proceeds from the sale of this unique compilation will be donated to aid the survivors of Hurricane Katrina through Habitat for Humanity.

TRACKLISTING

Disc One:
1. Echolyn, "15 Days"
2. Happy the Man, "Ibby It Is" (Live)
3. FM, "Random Harvest"
4. Camel, "After All These Years"
5. Mike Keneally, "Time Table"
6. Spock's Beard, "Shining Star" (Live)
7. IQ, "Chemical Rain"
8. Kraan, "Silver Buildings"
9. Mostly Autumn, "Ghost in Dreamland"
10. IZZ, "My River Flows"
11. Nektar, "Phazed by the Storm"
12. Sean Malone, "Grace" (Live)

Disc Two:
1. Kansas, "Song for America"
2. The Flower Kings, "A King's Prayer" (2005 Remix)
3. Woodenhead, "Buzz Beat" (Live)
4. Djam Karet, "The Shattering Sky"
5. Neal Morse, "Sleeping Jesus" (Live)
6. The Muffins, "Essay R" (Remix)
7. Caravan, "Love Song with Flute" (Live)
8. Änglagård "Gånglåt från Knapptibble"
9. Little Atlas, "On and On"
10. Arjen Anthony Lucassen, "Pools of Sorrow/Not Over You"
11. California Guitar Trio, "Zundoko Bushi" (Live)
12. Pendragon, "Sou' by Sou'west"

Producer: Gayle Ellett of Fernwood Pacific
Executive Producers: Chad Hutchinson and Robert LaDuca
Mastering: Gayle Ellett and Wayne Yentis
Artwork/Layout: Michael Bennett
Manufacturing: Action Duplication

Further details online at http://afterthestorm.nearfestrecords.com

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Bert Lams featured on NPR

What music would you need to survive if you were marooned on a desert island? That's the question Ellen Hughes asks when guests take their turn to be castaways on WITF 89.5’s Desert island Discs. Bert will be featured on this NPR program on Saturday November 26 at noon and on Sunday, December 4 AT 6 PM. For more information visit http://www.witf.org/temps/FM/FM.shtml

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Jon Anderson, Tony Levin and the CGT Jam at NAMM


Jon Anderson of Yes performing with Tony Levin and the CGT

Jon Anderson, lead singer with the prolific and popular rock group Yes, performed with Tony Levin and the California Guitar Trio at the North American Music Merchant's Conference (NAMM) in Anaheim, California on January 21st to a packed audience. The concert took place in the convention center's "Acoustic Cafe", a large ballroom, and was well received by the many musicians and vendors attending the conference.

Click Here for Video Clips of the Performance

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WHITEWATER Now in Stores!


Whitewater - The newest album by the CGT
Order Whitewater
Whitewater official release August 17, 04. The new studio album from the California Guitar Trio with producer Tony Levin.

"A legend among guitar-watchers since the dawn of the '90s, California Guitar Trio revolutionize the term progressive instrumental on their 2004 masterpiece, 'Whitewater'"
- 20th Century Guitar Magazine

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CGT Japan Website Debuts


CGT Japan
CGT Japan
The CGT Japanese website debuted at the end of June 2004 as a way to keep Japanese fans closer in touch with the CGT. Spearheaded by the CGT's Hideyo Moriya, the website will offer news, information, and merchandise sales in Japanese. Webmaster Yuta Saito will assist Hideyo with the site as it grows and continues to take shape. Point your Japanese language enabled browser to http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cgt/japan/. Domo arrigato Yuta and Hideyo!

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All Songs Considered Selects CGT Tune

The CGT classic cover of Classical Gas was selected for NPR's All Songs Considered, a collection of favorite music of NPR Producers and Directors. The CGT's rendition of this Mason Williams tune caught the ear of Day to Day's Associate Producer and Director Katherine Fox. The tune appears on the CGT's 1998 recording Pathways.

Listen to it here

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CGT DOCUMENTARY DVD
ON SALE NOW

Following the Music - on the road with the California Guitar Trio The New CGT DVD, Following the Music is now available! Scott Lambson of Stone Chapel Films has been following the CGT on several of the CGT's tours and brings you behind the scenes. Orders are Now Being Accepted at CGT Direct.

The DVD has been a year in the making and features concert clips and behind the scenes action on tour with the CGT as they travel around the world and throughout the US.

The DVD is on sale now! It features 60 minutes of documentary footage on tour with the CGT, plus 60 minutes of bonus archival concert footage. The DVD is available only through CGT Direct, Stone Chapel Films, and at CGT Shows. For more information including previews visit stonechapelfilms.com.

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