The dates for the upcoming festival will be August 22-24. Keep an eye on the website and Facebook for more information. All news will be posted as soon as it becomes available. Read more

August 21, 22, & 23 in Shreveport, Louisiana

We are looking forward to seeing ALL of you to celebrate this great 3-Day Event! We have lots of great artists lined-up!

“The James Burton Foundation” promotes music in the lives of children all over the world.“ Read more

The James Burton Foundation has donated guitars to the Boys and Girls Club and the Volunteers of America “Lighthouse” program for Children.

Read more at the Foundation’s website. Read more

The James Burton Foundation is featured in the premiere of episode 6 of season 7 of GearZ, titled ‘The P38 Warbird-Kaase Engine-James Burton’. The episode will air on Tuesday, April 9 at 8pm EST on Speed Channel. Read more

The 2 James Burton Foundation cookbooks can be ordered here.
Remember you are not just buying a cookbook, you are helping to buy a guitar for another child.

The cost of the book is $25 & $5 for US shipping and handling and $15 for International orders. Read more

For the first time ever, the James Burton Foundation has made a donation of guitars outside of the US. Stichting Tante Lenie was the grateful recipient of guitars yesterday. The Dutch Foundation helps families with chronically ill children by providing them with a vacation and all kinds of activities. Read more

Nice interview with James, with video from the Foundation’s office and the James Burton Studios

We are still looking for cookbook recipes for the new cookbook. We are adding a holiday section now so please share your favorite holiday (Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, B-day, etc.) dessert recipes. Read more

Hey everyone we are looking for dessert recipes for our new dessert cookbook we are going to put together. We also wanted to do a section for diabetes dessert recipes. Read more

Two Grammy Award Winners and One of the World’s Most Acclaimed Guitarists in Concert Saturday Night, October 15th, Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas An Evening of Musical Celebration with James Burton, Billy Swan & Doyle Dykes to Benefit Local Charity 3rd October 2011 —

James Burton, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legendary guitarist for Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson, will be honored for his efforts to bring music to children at St. Read more

Hey,

I’m putting together a cookbook that will have some of my favorite recipes in it.

If you have any recipes that you would like to have considered to be put into this cookbook please email them to me at jamesburtonfest@aol.com Read more

New York, NY… Mojave Audio, a leading manufacturer of world-class microphones for the recording professional, is pleased to announce it recently donated two of the company’s most popular microphones to the Shreveport, LA-headquartered James Burton Foundation. Read more

The Foundation recently shipped guitars to rural Georgia in response to a support request. Your donations made this possible.

Randy Young, at Thomas County Central High School in Thomasville GA, teaches a media production course that includes music recording and engineering. Read more

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and multiple Grammy winner James Burton will make a special appearance at the Natchitoches Jazz/R&B Festival this weekend to present free guitars to the Natchitoches chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of El Camino Real. Read more

KTBS has put up a video of James donating the guitars: http://www.ktbs.com/video/27121969/index.html Read more

From KTBS.com:

Students at a Shreveport school are singing a local musician’s praises this morning.

Guitar legend James Burton made a special donation to the students at Linwood Public Charter School, giving them 24 brand new guitars.This Read more

The James Burton Studios was officially opened yesterday. Below is a news article from KTBS news. The original article can be found here and has a video of the opening.

James will donate three signed guitars at MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY’s WESTFEST 2010, which takes place FRIDAY (8/13) through SUNDAY (8/15) at the GARFIELD COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS in RIFLE, COLORADO. BURTON will be donating the guitars through his JAMES BURTON FOUNDATION, which is dedicated to providing musical scholarships and instruments to children as well as young adults. Read more

D&N’s Elvis Presley Fan Club invites you to join them and their guest star, James Burton, Elvis’ TCB Band lead guitarist, in his only Elvis Week 2010 appearance. Austin, Texas DJ Tyke Harrison hosts. Read more