Misc/Open House

Here’s Dave Montgomery (auction nickname Original Beardo) with Michelle Forman and Alex Jones (auction nickname Brad Pitt.)

(From left) Ron Fernandez, Eugene Clark, Ervin Somogyi, and Jeanette Fernandez grab a bite to eat, but the lutherie info just won’t stop.

Catching a pleasant evening breeze are (from left) Michael Gurian, Tim Shaw, Sylvan Wells, Leslie Brown, Nathan Ching, and Paul Bristow.

Here’s our genial staff photographer Hap Newsom. Hap and his wife Anne keep the high-tech GAL digital photography machine running.

I think this is the sweetest photo we got this year: Manuel Velazquez with New York guitar dealer and longtime GAL member Beverly Maher.

Back at the GAL Headquarters open house, Bill Polfus looks at a display of historical photos of the 1979 GAL Convention.

Now we are just chillin’ out. From left, it’s Federico Sheppard, Jakona Bell, Isaac Olsen, Todd Brotherton, Marshall Brune, and Tim Olsen.

Luthier Robert Desmond was a photographer at Disney World in a previous life. He helped out with photography this year. Thanks, Bob! Here he is at the GAL HQ with staffer Dale Phillips.

Here’s Tim and Deb Olsen with Bob Meltz. Bob was a stalwart convention attender in the late 70s and early 80s, but we hadn’t seen him in 22 years. Great to see you, Bob.

Here are a few folks at the Headquarters open house. Click the thumbnail to see everyone. From left to right it’s Todd Rose, Tim Williams, Frank Ford (standing), Genii Williams, John Mikelson (standing), Chuck Tweedy, and Mark Swanson.

It’s the end of a great day, and a great convention. What better way to wind it down than a sing-along with Fred Carlson and his banjo? Going clockwise around the circle from Fred it’s Gregg Miner, Chuck Tweedy, Tim Olsen, Mike Doolin, Gary Southwell, Todd Brotherton, Jakona Bell, and Todd Rose.

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