14-18th Aug 2013: Lets go to SPAH 50th birthday
Convention... 
50th
Anniversary !
The
Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica was
founded in Michigan back in 1963 and that makes 2013 the 50th
anniversary. Sure 2013 is going to be a great year for SPAH and for the
harmonica in general, and the staff is working hard behind the scenes
to make this year's SPAH
convention a memorable event. See below to find out more about what
we've been up and what there is to see in 2013.
SPAH 2013 Convention Informations (About SPAH)
9801 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, Missouri 63134 at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel.
(For those who don't know how to Display PDF, lets have a look to the schedule given on 09th/08/2013... Possible small changes original is here)
Don’t miss John Sebastian, Charley McCoy, Annie Raines, Joe Filisko, Peter Madcat Ruth, Filip Jers, Sandy Weltman, Robert Bonfiglio, Stan Harper, Michel Herblin, James Conway, Brendan Power, Steve Baker, etc...
I'll be there to make many
pictures and report my very first trip to USA discovering the SPAH
convention live... Many pictures to come on this page soon...
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Don't miss the
traditional Blow-Off:
The Blues Blow-Off, though not an official SPAH function, is quickly
becoming a Tuesday-night SPAH tradition. This year, it will be held at
BB's Jazz Blues & Soups - 700 South Broadway, Downtown St Louis,
starting at 7:25pm. Vocalist, harmonica player and Blues Music Award
nominee John Nemeth will host, and performers will include Steve Baker,
The HarpBeats, Koei Tanaka, Brendan Power, Brandon Bailey and many
others. Watch this page for more details.
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Some nice websites to discover
about St Louis :
- Get around St Louis
- Highlights of St Louis
- Gateway Arch
- Metro
Transit St Louis
- webcam
- Airport
taxi
- Renaissance St Louis Airport hotel (Fr)
- Gateway harmonica club
For those who could not
come...Sorry for you... You missing something: The feast, many people
also from International and in love with the harmonica, but also the
very pretty town... with the Arch not only the door to the Ouest...but
symbol of something magic currently happening ... "A suivre" !...If
this door could be something also like a symbol of the futur of the
harmonica, without boundaries....all brothers and sisters from mother
music 
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