The Musician’s Birds of a Feather gathering at RailsConf was great. We had a room full people, two guitars, a ukulele, a flute, several harmonicas and an improvised drum set. Unfortunately, one of the guitars was an electric travel guitar which had a dead battery, therefore no way to really hear it.

However, the other guitar was a nice Epiphone accoustic which was passed from player to player. It became the quickly became the basis for most of the music performed that night.

I want to thank Artichoke Community Music for supplying the guitar. Travelling with a guitar by plane is a big pain, so I arrived with nothing to bring to the music BOF. I called several local music stores looking for a guitar that I could rent for an evening. Artichoke music said they had a “not-for-profit” guitar that they would let me borrow for a day. Not many stores would do that for an out-of-town stranger.

So, if you’re in Portland looking for a good guitar store, check out the great people at Artichoke Community Music.