Dr. Slide (left) & The Aloha Cowgirl (right)

Phyllis is a certified fitness instructor and western dance instrutor, specializing in the two-step and line dancing. She is featured on several dance instruction videos. She will be hosting the Aloha Cowgirl Boutique and introducing us to her love of all things western, including fashion, art and household items.                      

Here at the Slide Factor you will find a plethora of slide guitar goodness! Learn about the Dobro, watch video's of sliders, and soon be able to buy T-shirts and CD's, and much much more. 

"Slide Factor" the band features Marty on 6 and 8 string reso guitars and lap steel and Phyllis on lead vocals and rythym guitar. We play a variety of Old Time Country and Bluegrass music.

Also featured is John Little on Harmonica, Ken Luse on Bass and occasionally Ethan Lawton on mandolin. When we are north of the border in British Columbia, Canada Rhonda Shultz joins on fiddle and Rory Dafoe on slide and tenor guitar. Rory also makes some beautiful Weissenborn  style slide guitars with spider resonators. You can see his instruments at his website www.seatoskyinstruments.com

We offer performance options as a duet, trio, or quartet and also offer a 30 minute dance instruction program focusing on the two-step, waltz and line dancing. Phyllis can also customize a line dance for a patron upon request. This program is ideal for community centers, R.V. Resorts and dance clubs. Phyllis is a Fitness Co-ordinator at a Retirement Home and finds that Seniors really enjoy her dance programs. She even has a crack senior line dancing team.

We also offer workshops on Dobro/Lap Steel, Dance, and Musicians Fitness programs.

You may be wondering what is meant by "the slide factor"?

The "slide factor" is the number nine (9). Why 9? Because it is 9 times more fun to slide on the guitar than to play it conventionally. A jam sessions' energy level is raised 9 times when a slider joins in. Bands are 9 times more likely to be successful if they have a slide guitar player. In Chinese mythology one of the original 9 wizards is thought to have been 'the Archduke of the Dobro" who lived on the Hawaiin Islands and taught the original 9 lap steel players there and set them forth with one mandate to uphold. To each teach 9 sliders with each vowing to teach 9 sliders and uphold all to the mandate until one day there will be a slider in every home on earth. This will result in a wonderful resophonic harmony sweeping the planet into an era of peace and musical rejoicing.

As far as I know there is only one decendent of the Archduke of the Dobro left and that is Stacy Phillips.

If you have more thoughts or information to add to this myth please let us know about it in the forums section.

We bring the Slide Factor to Festival campsites as often as we can and so we have a Festival Campology section that we will share camp tips, products and other fun stuff. We have friends who have a fabulous printing company, "The Image Mill" who can print on most everything. They made some side panels for our RV awning with our logo on it and striping that matches our RV striping. Look for  it at the festivals and you will find us. They will do band logos, pictures of anything you desire and print it on any surface imagimable. They can do complete RV wraps, matching tow vehicle wraps, awnings, side panels, tables, chairs, flooring, etc.

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