Gear up for Sweetwater’s GearFest 2021 extravaganza
Music retailer announces all-virtual iteration of its popular annual event

Music retailer Sweetwater has announced GearFest 2021, set to take place June 25 and 26.
As to be expected, GearFest 2021 will be fully virtual this time out. But it promises to be just as spectacular as years past, with two days of online seminars, workshops, live performances, artist appearances, exclusive sales, giveaways and, most of all, lots and lots of guitars and gear.
Among the confirmed artists making appearances this year are Peter Frampton, Judas Priest's Ian Hill, Billy Gibbons, Alan Parsons, Nathan East, Nile Rodgers, and Lita Ford, with more to be announced.
Otherwise, GearFest promises virtual vendors, new release updates and, of course, gear galore.
For more information, head to Sweetwater.
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Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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