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Gage Brewer
Gage Kelso Brewer (1904 in Gage, Oklahoma – 1985 in Wichita, Kansas) was an American musician, guitarist and bandleader. Brewer is credited with the first staging of a publicly promoted performance featuring the electric guitar,Tolinski, Brad:"The 50 greatest moments in electric guitar history,"March 2, 2023, ''Guitar World,'' retrieved July 9, 2023Aulbach, AshleyApril 4, 2016, 360Wichita.com (includes photo of photo-and-caption clipping, showing Brewer with A-25 "Frying Pan", from ''Wichita Beacon,'' October 2, 1932), retrieved July 9, 2023 as well as the earliest recording using both the electric Hawaiian and electric Spanish guitar. Early career Brewer played primarily in the Hawaiian style with the guitar, face up, across the lap, intonated with a bar rather than fretted by hand. When he was born in Gage, Oklahoma Territory, Hawaiian music featuring the guitar would gain important public exposure at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair. This mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gage, Oklahoma
Gage is a town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 433 at the time of the 2020 census. History Located in the central part of Ellis County on SH-46, thirteen miles north of the county seat, Arnett, and on SH-15, twenty-one miles southwest of Woodward, Gage developed primarily because of transportation access. The military road from Fort Supply to Fort Elliott/Mobeetie, Texas, passed near the future town, and two miles to the northwest a stage stop existed at the confluence of Little Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek. In 1887 the Southern Kansas Railway (later part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) had constructed a line across northwestern Oklahoma from Kansas to the Texas Panhandle. A station called Gage, named for Chicago railroad financier Lyman J. Gage, was established in July near Wolf Creek. Once the domain of various Plains Indian groups, by that time this region had become part of the Cherokee Outlet, opened to settlement by a land r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |