The California Bluegrass Festival holds their annual Father's Day Festival in Grass Valley California at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. There were 17 luthiers exhibiting their instruments in the Luthier's Pavilion, including Cyr Custom Guitars. We brought along all five of the acoustic instruments we've built so far, as well as a sample of some of the solid-body instruments. The following are some of the pictures we took of our exhibit and some of the others who were there:

First, the Cyr Custom Guitars booth -- you can see all five of the acoustics in this picture:

And on the right are the three electrics we brought along, on the left. That Tele-style-copy got as much attention as any of the other instruments I brought to the festival.

Ron Cole with his mandolins:

Williams Custom Banjos:

Hans Brentrup and his custom mandolins, all the way from Minnesota:

Gary Garcia, who lives just a few miles away in Carmichael CA. Gary's attention to detail and finish quality is just out of this world.

This is Gary Garcia again, talking to is next door neighbor Pete:

The Hendricks Brothers and their banjos:

Bruce Sexauer, who specializes in upright basses, spent most of the four days of the festival doing setups on basses:

Here's Bruce again, adjusting the action of an upright bass by filing the nut slots:

This is Michael Lewis, who organized the Luthier's Pavilion, and who spent most of his time doing setups on mandolins and an occasional guitar. Michael also did a couple of workshops on Mandolin setup.

This is a young lady named Molly, who did about three songs with her dad on Friday night. At 13 years old, she can play rings around me on that guitar, and she and her dad harmonized beautifully when they sang together too.

This is the Bluegrass band that played for the Sunday morning gospel concert:

Ron Cole again:

This fellow is new to mandolin-building, and he came from a small town 90 miles east of Reno NV:

Here's a special section for Howard Klepper's booth. Howard and his wife Helen were our next-door neighbors during the festival, and he builds beautiful guitars. First, Howard's booth:

Next, the guitar he calls "Dovetail Madness." This guitar sold on Saturday for $10,000. Howard and Helen both had ear-to-ear-grins on their faces for the rest of the show. :-)