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Local guitarist is LouieFest poster child
By Colleen Slater
KP News
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"Poster Child" Peter Sutton plays with the
Fabulous Wailers at Meeker Days in June.
Photo by M. Sutton |
Peter Sutton, an eighth-grader at Key Peninsula Middle
School, will be part of the LouieFest ’06 attempt at a
new Guinness World Record for most guitar players
playing “Louie Louie” together.
“I used to watch guitar players on
television, and thought it would be cool to play one,”
says Sutton. He begged for a guitar, and finally had his
own two years ago, at age 11. He began lessons two weeks
later and still takes them from Jho Blenis.
One day he was playing “San-Ho-Zay”
by Freddie King in a guitar center, trying out a guitar.
Buck Ormsby, bass player with the Fabulous Wailers of
Tacoma, asked Sutton where he learned that song. He said
his guitar teacher taught him. Ormsby invited
Sutton to play with them, and he’s been playing guitar
with them at various places for three
months. At LouieFest, he’ll play a couple of numbers
with them on the main stage.
Sutton is the “poster child” for
LouieFest, and will also be featured on the “Hero Stage”
with great guitar players such as Nokie Edwards.
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LouieFest
’06
The
family festival includes music, food,
cars and bikes. Aug. 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
rain or shine, Sprinker Recreation Center,
Pacific Avenue S. and Military Road,
Spanaway.
Admission free.
See
www.louiefest.com for details. |
The Wailers Performing Arts
Foundation, a nonprofit that presented the first two
fests, provides scholarships and instruments for kids
who can’t afford them, and Sutton thinks that’s a neat
deal. He will continue his music, but plans on college
and some other vocation.
Right now, he looks forward to
playing “Louie Louie” with perhaps 1,000 other
guitarists in August at the LouieFest.
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