Beehive Productions

11/12/2025

Here's the final in our series for the The Handmade Music School's annual Cunningham Handmade Instruments Guitar Raffle! YOU STILL HAVE 2 DAYS TO GET A TICKET and support music education at the same time! !

11/03/2025

We were honored to be able to capture this project from tree salvage to finished guitar! Check out all the details, watch all the videos and get a Raffle Ticket at: http://handmademusicschool.org/guitar-raffle

Proceeds benefit a great cause! Drawing is November 14, 2025!

When Hurricane Helene tore through Appalachia last year, it devastated mountain communities across Virginia. But it also left behind a rare gift.

Among the fallen were centuries-old red spruce trees, prized for their rich tonewood. This summer, luthier and Virginia Folklife mentor Jackson Cunningham, along with Raistlin Brabson and fellow craftspeople Chris Testerman, KT Vandyke, Greg Troxell, and Ian Snyder, hand-harvested the wood.

Now, the first guitar made from this storm-fallen spruce is the grand prize in the Handmade Music School’s annual Guitar Raffle, featuring a top from a 200-year-old tree and Virginia red spruce bracing, the same wood once used in early Gibson instruments.

🎟️ Raffle drawing: November 14
🔗 Learn more and get tickets: https://loom.ly/XIQRJrI

10/17/2025

The Cunningham Raffle Guitar: Salvage to Top - Part 2

We are happy to be a part of this project once again. This is the 4th year of the Cunningham Guitar Raffle for The Handmade Music School mademusic here in Floyd, Virginia.
Each year luthier Jackson Cunningham of Cunningham Handmade Instruments builds a beautiful, custom-made guitar that the school raffles off with all proceeds benefitting their music education programming and scholarship fund.

This year's guitar was built with red spruce salvaged from Hurricane Helene blowdown in the Grayson County highlands of Virginia.

For the past four years we've been lucky enough to document each guitar build as well as capture live performances of various talented players demonstrating the beauty and sound of these incredible instruments. This year's model is a stunner! Thank you to Peluso Microphone Lab, LLC for helping us do justice to this project 🙂

I will be shamelessly promoting this project on our socials! Share with your guitar loving peeps!

Guitar comes with a custom hardshell case from Harptone's Redline series (worth the price of a ticket by itself!)

TICKETS are $25 - Drawing is November 14th, 2025!
Available online here: http://handmademusicschool.org/guitar-raffle

10/17/2025

We are happy to be a part of this project once again. This is the 4th year of the Cunningham Guitar Raffle for The Handmade Music School here in Floyd, Virginia.

Each year luthier Jackson Cunningham of Cunningham Handmade Instruments builds a beautiful, custom-made guitar that the school raffles off with all proceeds benefitting their music education programming and scholarship fund.

This year's guitar was built with red spruce salvaged from Hurricane Helene blowdown in the Grayson County highlands of Virginia.

For the past four years we've been lucky enough to document each guitar build as well as capture live performances of various talented players demonstrating the beauty and sound of these incredible instruments. This year's model is a stunner! Thank you to Peluso Microphone Lab, LLC for helping us do justice to this project :)

I will be shamelessly promoting this project on our socials! Share with your guitar loving peeps!

TICKETS are $25 - Drawing is November 14th, 2025!
Available online here: http://handmademusicschool.org/guitar-raffle

03/28/2024

New videos and website coming soon from our pal 🔥

01/11/2024

Excited to share a new .jefferson track available now on bandcamp. 🎷Horns by 🥁drums by (John Fatum) 🎸bass by Rob Jost and cover art by myself 😎 jeffersonhamer.bandcamp.com/track/palmetto

12/06/2023

Excited to share this project! Jefferson Hamer - Alameda (Special Edition) features mixing and mastering by and new packaging by me (sue b).

Pre-Order now on Bandcamp! Or visit JeffersonHamer.com

“This Special Edition is a remixed and remastered version by Jeff Oehler of Beehive Productions, and contains two tracks not on the original release: an alternate version of "Moving Day", as well as an acoustic version of "Vision," featuring a lovely wind arrangement by Alec Spiegelman. This Special Edition is destined for a vinyl release later in 2024, with a full digital release planned for Jan.2, 2024. Preorder now for a first listen to the remixed title track, as well as the never-before-heard alternate version of Moving Day". — Jefferson

11/28/2023

Hey y'all

I’m launching a new portfolio of my graphic design work on our site and I wanted to spread the word.

Check out beehivepro.com/design if you have time :)

I've been designing packaging, promo and merch for the music industry for almost 3 decades — Yes, I am that old!

I also have extensive web experience including designing and building sites in Wordpress, Squarespace, WIX, and Bandzoogle.

If anyone out there is looking for graphics for packaging, merch, or web, please hit us up.

Thanks! — Sue B

11/09/2022

We're proud to say that for the past 10 years we've used Peluso Microphones exclusively!! Peluso Microphone Lab, LLC

Checkout their new website: PelusoMicrophoneLab.com

09/24/2021

Adirondack peeps if you missed them at the Waterhole last night, Billy Wylder is live again tonight at Upper Jay Art Center Recovery Lounge! https://youtu.be/FrOotgI5tgU

Music starts at 8pm! - Don't miss it!!

Beehive Field Recordings: Billy Wylder "Great Blue Heron"From the 2018 release: Billy Wylder - "Strike the Match" This Field Recording session was captured l...

06/10/2021

Here's segment of our mini-doc of the making of this Cunningham Handmade guitar. There's still time to enter the raffle to win this beauty - drawing is tomorrow (June 11). Proceeds to benefit The Handmade Music School
Visit https://www.floydcountrystore.com/jackson-cunningham-guitar-raffle - to enter or to watch the complete film :)

06/08/2021

We are happy to be back to work and excited to present this series of song videos which accompany a mini-doc that we made in collaboration with The Floyd Country Store and The Handmade Music School.

The doc features Southwest Virginia luthier Jackson Cunningham of Cunningham Handmade Instruments — We followed Jackson around his shop for a few days while he worked on this beautiful small-bodied flattop which he built to be raffled off to benefit The Handmade Music School (501c3, non-profit).

We’ll be posting a series of different artists playing this guitar so people can get a feeling for not only how great this guitar sounds, but its versatility. Featured here is Trevor McKenzie! Captured with P47ss!

Want a chance to win this guitar? Visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/jackson-cunningham-guitar-raffle

Drawing is June 10!! Stay tuned for more vids from this series! Sent from my iPhone