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City: Canberra
State: ACT
Country: AU
Signup Date: 11/22/2007

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Monday, November 24, 2008 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Music

Chris Harland has been awarded as the Canberra Blues Society's Instrumentalist of the Year for 2008

Many thanks to all those involved and big apologies for not being able to attend the awards ceremony evening - Chris

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 

Category: Music

A review of the CHBB and Steve Russell show at the Folkus Room on 31st October 2008 can be read at www.culturazi.com/?p=1299


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Sunday, October 19, 2008 
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Canberra Bluesman Steve Russell has recently had his home broken into and the following guitars were amongst the items stolen:

Candy Apple red '62 Fender Telecaster Custom re-issue. Made in Japan. In fabric soft case Monterey brand, black with purple trimming. The scratch plate has been replaced with a slightly off white three ply (black/white/black) plastic plate.

Ephiphone Casino. The scratchplate is missing and it has a different tailpiece – it is a tremolo style tail piece with a chrome handle that extends up to the bridge. This guitar was in a black moulded plastic hard case.

Fender Telecaster (Made in Mexico). A slightly darker “chocolate” coloured rosewood body in a fabric soft case (gig bag) which was fairly worn. It has a chip in the finish where the neckjoins the body, which has been “repaired” with brown coloured wax.

Fernandes Revival brand. Gold and has 3 enclosed tubular chrome pickups rather thanthe white plastic on the photo. It has a large chip in the rear bottom edge. It was in a Fender gig bag.

Line 6 Variax 700 acoustic (Black). This guitar was in an olive/brown Line 6 fabric gig bag.

Gibson Les Paul Standard (black). The guitar has a dent on the rear edge and a small crack in the cream plastic pickguard at the screw near the neck. It also had a a small silver and black Ying/Yang sticker on the headstock under the brand name.  Hinges on the case are broken.

Danelectro Convertible. Cream with a dark brown trim around the sides, not in a case.

Regal Dobro. Worn condition with 2 control knobs on the front a a plastic tortoiseshell plate between the chrome resonator and the neck. The strings had been raised with a v shapedmetal string raiser at the nut to adapt it for Hawaiin style playing. It was probably in either a blackfabric covered hard case or a moulded black plastic hardcase with the brand “Takamine” moulded into it.

Violin. An antique Italian violin, the label reads Carlo Storioni Cremonensis Faciebat 1898 (or something similar). In a blue fabric covered hard case with 2 bows. 

There was also an older Ibanez brand 12 string acoustic which had a circular orange “your rights atwork” sticker on the front covering a small hole in the face, and a black Yamaha “thinline” electroacoustic with “f” holes and a gold plated pick up at the neck.

If you or anyone you know are approached to buy any of the above guitars, please contact your local police or contact the Canberra Blues Society.

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