{"id":357093,"date":"2026-07-01T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357093\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:48:13","slug":"marshalls-east-texas-performing-arts-welcomes-students-to-first-guitar-camp-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357093\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall\u2019s East Texas Performing Arts welcomes students to first guitar camp of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marshall\u2019s East Texas Performing Arts welcomes students to first guitar camp of summer<\/p>\n

Published 5:30 am Wednesday, July 1, 2026<\/p>\n

East Texas Performing Arts\u2019 first youth guitar camp this past weekend at The Marshall Arts Collective hit all the right notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEast Texas Performing Arts is a nonprofit public charity, and our focus is largely on youth,\u201d said Preston Taylor, the group\u2019s vice president. \u201cWe do theater and concerts and our big music festival, Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organization also gives away Gibson guitars to dedicated guitarists in high school as part of a collaboration with the Gibson Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guitar camps are a new idea, trying to get young people introduced to the guitar,\u201d he said. \u201cBut at the same time, we have multiple instructors at the camps, so if someone comes in who is advanced, we can do both. We can do the beginners and the more advanced, at whatever level they\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, two beginner students were taught by two members of the Monday Night Pickers, Scotty Welland and Ricky Maxey. Welland also serves as a volunteer of the Texas Sounds International CMA.<\/p>\n

The Monday Night Pickers is a group of musicians who gather weekly to play music in downtown Marshall.<\/p>\n


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The next Youth Guitar Camp is scheduled July 18. Call 925-497-3915 for details or visit easttexasperformingarts.org .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marshall\u2019s East Texas Performing Arts welcomes students to first guitar camp of summer Published 5:30 am Wednesday, July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-357093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}