For decades, Gibson built its acoustic guitars at a factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Artists such as B.B. King and Johnny Cash made the instruments famous. Mandolin designer Orville Gibson opened the ...
While employees at the Nashville headquarters of Gibson Guitars were ordered to stay home starting last week, the company is forcing more than 300 factory workers to continue reporting for duty ...
Image via Gibson’s Facebook page. On Mar. 20, Gibson closed all of its U.S.-based operations, including its headquarters in Nashville, due to coronavirus concerns. According to a press release, Gibson ...
With coronavirus leaving countless workers without a paycheck for the foreseeable future, Gibson Guitars is stepping up to provide relief pay to their factory workers. Gibson announced they’ll be ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A guitar manufacturer is planning a major expansion at its factory in Bozeman amid increasing ...
KALAMAZOO, MI -- A fire at the former Gibson guitar factory site in Kalamazoo was quickly extinguished, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said. Firefighters responded around 2 p.m. on ...
Kalamazoo — People who don’t often make it to Kalamazoo’s north side could be excused if they’re puzzled by the sounds of rock ballads echoing inside the former Gibson Guitar Co. factory. It’s not the ...
If nothing else good came out of 2020, we can say that we at least have “Instrument of the People” — some 1967-era footage of Gibson Guitars’ “craftory”, which was discovered sometime in the fall of ...
Editor's note: This is one in a series of stories about Kalamazoo's guitar-making heritage. Go here to read the full series. KALAMAZOO, MI-- Anyone strumming a Gibson guitar made before 1975 is ...
KALAMAZOO — People who don't often make it to Kalamazoo's north side could be excused if they're puzzled by the sounds of rock ballads echoing inside the former Gibson Guitar Co. factory. It's not the ...