NOTE: It's with an abundance of caution we at the La Conner Guitar Festival have decided it is in the best interest of all that we reschedule the festival. The new dates are July 10 - 12, 2020. Please be patient while we go through the process of rescheduling the Concerts, Workshops and Special Events.
Thank you!

    Evening Concerts

    NOTE: Workshops are NOT  included in General Admission and require separately purchased tickets.

      Welcoming back by popular demand:

      Mark Goldenberg

      Mark Goldenberg is an American guitarist and songwriter, noted for his session work and composition of successful songs for Linda Ronstadt, the Pointer Sisters, and others. Goldenberg has played on records for Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Frampton, Eels, Natalie Imbruglia, Chris Isaak, Karla Bonoff, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and William Shatner. Goldenberg co-wrote the song "Automatic" which was a hit for the Pointer Sisters. He also wrote "A Kick In The Heart" for Kim Carnesand co-wrote "Novocaine for the Soul" for the band Eels. Goldenberg played lead guitar in Jackson Browne's band from 1994 until 2010. In 2015, Goldenberg finished a two year tour with Hugh Laurie and his Copper Bottom Band.


      Also  welcoming back:

      Sean McGowan

      Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording River Coffee won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been published in Japan’s Acoustic Guitar magazine and Mel Bay’s Master Anthology of Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 3 (2005). His subsequent recordings Indigo (2008) and Sphere: the Music ofThelonious Monk (2011) offer compelling portraits of classic jazz standards performed on solo electric archtop guitar. Sphere was named one of Acoustic Guitar magazine’s “Essential Albums of 2011”, and Sean was recently featured on the cover of Fingerstyle 360 magazine (Summer 2012). His most recent solo guitar recordings include Thanksgiving & Christmas Tidings (2014) a collection of seasonal hymns and carols arranged for acoustic guitar, and My Fair Lady (2015) a collection of songs from Lerner & Loewe’s masterpiece.

      Saturday — May 9th — 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

      Maple Hall / Upstairs
      104 Commercial St.  La Conner, WA - Map


      $20 / Advance - Online
      $25 / at the Box Office (located in Maple Hall during exhibition hours)