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NOTE: Bring your guitar. After the Main Presenter each month, we then go into Breakout Sessions based on skill level and interest: Beginners (Rookies), intermediate (Minors) and skilled (Majors). New stuff each month. There's always a place to feel comfortable and welcome. Guitar League's motto is Learn ~ Play ~ Share. You'll learn something, and have fun doing it. Oh yeah, and you'll meet some nice fellow guitar players.
Ada Khoury & Diane Matheson
http://www.theadakhouryband.com/ Ada (pronounced Ahdah) is a dynamic singer-songwriter who hails from Texas and became a professional musician at the age of twelve. Her original band, Shiloh, was made up of the youngest members to ever be placed on the roster of Houston's premier talent agency. While attending medical school, and later a residency in psychiatry, Ada began recognizing the healing power of music and began writing her own songs, many in collaboration with her mother. They developed a large following in the piedmont of North Carolina while touring the southeast region, opening for acts such as Melissa Etheridge, The Indigo Girls, Doc Watson and David Wilcox to excellent reviews. Ada has penned over two hundred original songs and has released three independent albums. Her style ranges from folk, rock, country, Americana and jazz. She currently plays with Diane Matheson in her Asheville-based band called “The Ada Khoury Band” Diane grew up in Chicago and got her guitar playing beginnings at her brother’s knee. She landed in WNC to work with the Outward Bound organization, connected with the mountains and forests and settled. After 40+ year of sharing songs in living rooms, around campfires, and at sing-a-longs, Diane felt the gravitational pull of the bass guitar and began exploring the complex subtlety and intricate nuance of the lyrical heartbeat of music. This led to opportunities to join others in band settings. A relative newcomer to stage and performance, these collaborations have also opened explorations into songwriting. The albums 'Ada and Far Fetched Notion - Fairy Tales' and 'Ada - Opportunity Knocks More Than Once' are prior recordings of Ada's with different bands. The other songs are recent incarnations of some old and some new songs performed by Ada and Diane, sometimes accompanying other artists as well, recorded essentially 'live' in a home studio. We're hoping to continue to grow the collection. |