AMIS Loves Musical Instruments! The following select events represent some of the scholarly meetings, musical instrument collection programs, instrument trade shows, auctions, and more that are occurring this month. If you would like to list your event please email: blogs.amis@gmail.com. We reserve the right to include or not include any event for any reason.
November, 2018
November Exhibition: "Trumpets, Weird and Wonderful: Treasures from the National Music Museum"
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey (til March 17, 2019)
November 1-4 The Banjo Gathering - The Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Bristol, VA November 1-4 American Musicological Society Annual Meeting - San Antonio, TX November 3 Rockford Guitar & Drum Show - Rockford, IL November 3–4 Vintage Guitar Show - Oldenburg, Germany
November 4–9 46th Annual Violin Society of America Convention and 23rd International Competition Cleveland, Ohio
November 4
Concert: The Dark Horse Consort - Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, CT
November 5
Demonstration: The Pedal Harps of Erard - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
November 8–17 Jerusalem International Oud Festival - Jerusalem, Israel
November 9 Exhibition: The Electric Guitar: Inventing an American Icon MIM, Phoenix, AZ, until Sept. 15, 2019
November 10–11 Great American Guitar Show - Philadelphia, PA
November 10 Auction: Vintage Guitars & Musical Instruments - Heritage Auctions
November 12 "Musical Instruments Unwrapped: Telling Social Histories Through Musical Instruments" Musical Instruments Resource Network UK, Edinburgh, Scotland
November 14–17
Percussive Arts Society Annual Meeting - Indianapolis, IN
November 15–18 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology - Albuquerque, NM
November 15
Association for Chinese Music Research - Albuquerque, NM
November 16 Concert: Appalachian Music Concert - Carolina Music Museum, Greenville, SC
November 16–December 22 Africolor - African Music Festival Paris, France November 18 Rose Quarter Guitar Festival - Portland, OR
November 20–22
Fifth International Romantic Brass Symposium - Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland
November 25
Merseyside Guitar Show - Liverpool, UK
Alter Seminarraum, Research Institute for the History of Scient and Technology
Deutsches Museum, Munich
November 29–December 1 "Double Reeds of the Silk Road: The Interaction of Theory and Practice from Antiquity to Contemporary Performance"
25th International Council for Traditional Music Colloquium Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China
November 29
Demonstration: Art In Tune - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA