Time's Top 10 list of electric guitar greats blew it last year. The magazine forgot to include Frank Vignola. We had the extreme good fortune to snag a seat on stage at the Minstrel in Morris Township ...
Good enough to bum out Les Paul. For the past three years, the Long Island native has backed Paul, the electric guitar's inventor and ultimate senior Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY ...
AUBURN, N.Y. - Frank Vignola strummed so hard on his electric guitar strings that his face visibly scrunched with intensity. He was performing a gypsy jazz style medley of songs by the ...
After several years of performing with Les Paul and sharing the stage with the likes of Ringo Starr, Wynton Marsalis and Madonna, Frank Vignolo knows that a true musical connection involves yes, a ...
Frank Vignola grew up in a musical family on Long Island — his dad and brother both play instruments — and Frank gravitated to things with strings. He first took up guitar, getting lessons from a ...
The Frank & Joe Show's second release finds the group expanded to a sextet—lead guitarist Frank Vignola and percussionist Joe Ascione add rhythm guitarist Ken Smith, bassist Gary Mazzaroppi, and ...
The 4th Annual Django by the Sea festival will kick off on Thursday, Oct. 4 and run through Sunday, Oct. 7. Curated by Jason Anick, this year’s incarnation – which will be held exclusively at The ...
The Return of Myriam Phiro’s critically acclaimed Tribute to Edith Piaf (10/17/21-10/17/21) ...
Ken Peplowski Quartet & Orchestra: Bird with Strings with Special Guest Eric Marienthal (8/27/24-8/31/24) ...
There are guitarists and then there are guitarists’ guitarists. Frank Vignola, who directed a master’s class delivered as a concert in Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza and Live Music last night, is one of ...
John McLaughlin and Frank Vignola present different approaches to the guitar and the music they subscribe to. McLaughlin has explored several musical idioms. He was the fire that ignited trumpeter ...
January 23 marked the 100th birthday of the influential jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt. Today, more than 50 years after his death, musicians are still paying tribute to the man who ...