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Sample Press Releases

Here are a couple of sample press releases that you may customize to help you advertise and promote your event:

Release #1:

Reverend Richard "Stonefingers" Johnson to Do Concert in [name of your town]

Coming soon...[name of your organization] will present CFR recording artist Reverend Richard "Stonefingers" Johnson in concert, on [day & date], at [location and address of concert]. Doors will open at [time], the fun will begin at [time].

Stonefingers is known throughout the US and Canada as the leading purveyor of "Christian swamp music," his own unique and original blend of blues, folk, and gospel. His "good pickin' and good news" style, played on his collection of rare and unusual instruments [including the first electric guitar ever made], his easy, laid-back manner, and his wry sense of humor appeals to people of all ages and musical tastes.

If you've ever wanted to see someone play the guitar using an electric junction box, here's your chance!

An evening with Stonefingers is definitely not church as usual.

For details about Stonefingers' background, ministry, music, and the rare guitars he plays, visit the Stonefingers Concert Ministry website at www.stonefingers.org.

For tickets, directions, or other information about the concert, contact [name of contact person] at [phone number].

Release #2:

The First Electric Guitar Ever Made Comes to [name of your town]

Coming soon...[name of your organization] will present CFR recording artist Reverend Richard "Stonefingers" Johnson in concert, on [day & date], at [location and address of concert]. Doors will open at [time], the fun will begin at [time].

One of the instruments Stonefingers will be bringing with him is the first electric guitar ever made; a rare 1934 Rickenbacker Electro Lap Steel, nicknamed "The Frying Pan Guitar." First produced in 1932, 2,700 of these guitars were sold during the 1930's. At the time Stonefingers found his guitar, at a music store in the northeast back in 1975, it was only the third one known to have survived, and the only one in private hands. A few weeks after he found it, a collector offered him six figures for the instrument, an offer which Stonefingers turned down.

Since the seventies, hundreds of "Frying Pan Guitars" have been found in attics and garages all over the country, and while the instrument is no longer worth six figures, its value has not diminished in Stonefingers' eyes:

"I've had the pleasure of playing the Frying Pan in prisons, in churches, in concert halls...all kinds of places, for all kinds of people. Over the years, thousands of prison inmates and other folks have come to hear me play because they were curious about the guitar, and left with a lot more than they came for; a second chance, a new life in Jesus Christ. 

"I would like to personally invite everyone, whether they like church or believe in God or not, to come to the show. We're going to have a good time."

For details about Stonefingers' background, ministry, music, and the rare guitars he plays, visit the Stonefingers Concert Ministry website at www.stonefingers.org.

For tickets, directions, or other information about the concert, contact [name of contact person] at [phone number].

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