Posted by admin on February 14th, 2013 in News
Martin Taylor and Peerless Guitars are pleased to announce the establishment of Peerless Distribution LLC in the USA. This company will be handling the distribution for the Martin Taylor range of guitars built by Peerless Guitars across the North American and Canadian territories.
The distribution network for the Martin Taylor ‘Virtuoso’ and ‘Maestro’ archtop guitar models [...]
Posted by admin on January 12th, 2013 in News
Check out the latest cover story in Acoustic Magazine where Martin and Tommy Emmanuel talk about their new album “The Colonel and The Governor”. We’ll have more details on the new album soon but in the meantime you can find out about the live shows they have coming up.
Posted by admin on November 22nd, 2012 in News
Thanksgiving Day – I’m thankful that I left school at the first possible opportunity at the age of 15 to pursue a career in music. This ensured that I had no academic qualifications or second career to fall back on when times got tough. I had to ride out the really [...]
Posted by admin on October 1st, 2012 in News
Last Saturday saw Martin receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ards International Guitar Festival.
The award presentation, took place at the end of his solo set, to a standing ovation from the packed house at the Queen’s Hall, Newtonards, Northern Ireland, and to the surprise of Martin.
“I was totally stunned to receive this award, I [...]
Posted by admin on September 27th, 2012 in News
The nominations have been announced for the 2012 British Jazz Awards, which is always a high point of the British jazz calendar. The 26th edition of the awards will, as always, recognise some of the best talent that the British jazz scene has to offer. Please take two minutes to give Martin your vote for [...]
Posted by admin on May 5th, 2012 in Live, News
Martin will be playing at the Festival de Guitarra in the beautiful city of Santo Tirso in Portugal on May 26th 2012. Other guitarists performing at the month long guitar festival include
Anna Likhacheva
Dimitris Kotronakis
Pedro Jóia e Ricardo Ribeiro Quinteto
Roberto Aussel
Microtonal Guitar Duo
Wolfgang Lendle – Quarteto Solistas Artave
Full details on the festival including booking information can [...]
Posted by admin on May 5th, 2012 in Live, News
Martin will be performing at this years Singapore International Guitar Festival on June 20th. The concert is at the RELC International Hotel Auditorium and details can be found by clicking here.
Posted by admin on April 19th, 2012 in Live, News
We’re excited to announce that Martin Taylor will be performing his ‘Spirit of Django Suite’ at the 2012 BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall on August 31st. With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, this summer’s BBC Proms promises to be unlike any other. Over eight weeks the Proms welcomes a truly international [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2012 in News
Martin Taylor will be appearing at the MusikMesse show in Frankfurt on March 21st 2012 to promote the new range of Martin Taylor guitars with Peerless. The Martin Taylor Maestro and the Martin Taylor Virtuoso guitars will be on display at the Peerless stand G61, Hall 3.1. We’ll be adding more details on the [...]