What Happened to my CARBON FIBER Guitar? 

Mary, you look so relaxed, happy, and glowing in this video. Please share the full duet that you and your friend Shawn (I hope it's the correct spelling) started at the end of the video. Like you, she has a great sounding speaking and singing voice.

Happy birthday, Mary! Glad you had a good weekend 😊 Guitar sounds great!

Living vicariously through you and your friends. What a lovely adventure.

Happy Birthday, Mary! Keep lighting up the world!

Happy birthday, Mary. Glad to see things are more normal. Just went to my first weekend concert myself this past week.

Lovely video! The little festival looked so fun. Liked the song too. Thanks Mary.

My band played at an outdoor festival called "Up the Country fest" just north of Dallas, and just a year or so after Woodstock. Yeah, spoiler alert to my age, but one of my favorite musical memories. A few thousand people dancing, having fun and acting a little crazy in the middle of a blazing Texas summer.

Happy belated birthday Love! You are amazing. Thanks for the great content and fantastic songs!❤❤❤

Happy birthday Mary, hope the next one is awesome for you!

Thank you for this very inspiring video. It feels good to see normal life again. Everything about this video is very relaxing, the narration, the images, the music, your voice, the songs, everything.

I bought one of these a few years after seeing your original video. It's my second guitar and I'm still feeling it out, but after having the saddle and nut adjusted, it plays much easier. Super happy with it. Fits in an overhead on a plane. Love it.

Good stuff Mary!! I was thoroughly entertained!! 😎👍🏼👍🏼

Mary, you exude joy when you play. It's quite unique. It makes me happy. Thank you.

Hi Mary! Estás a punto de llegar a medio millón de subscriptores!!!! Congrats!

Hey Mary!!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!! Keep Rockin!!!!! You're The Best!!!!!

Lovely video and vibe: happy belated birthday Mary!

Happy Birthday!!! Love your friends!

Belated happy birthday, Mary! Cheers!

This guitar is amazing! Thanks to your previous video, because it made me buy one too and enjoy it a lot!

I've been following you for a while now, off the bat I love your tone, especially acousticly. This vlog resonates way more than others, how you described writing, and how it can be scary when sharing those intimate personal experiences would be received by others. I have total respect for that. A thousand times I've walked home drunk and came up with pieces of golden poetry that I've instantly forgotten, never to be seen again. So recently if I get a hook I manifest it, and usually I can't find a pen, or paper so I type it on facebook. For me it's better out than in. I don't do it for "likes" the outpouring is healthy for me. I checked out the tunes you referenced in this vlog, and I love them, your tone your voice, and thoroughly refreshingly original songwriting. I wish you all the success you deserve 😊

After seeing your original video, my husband bought me one of these. (Yay, lucky me). Delighted to see you still enjoy playing yours.

Love to see you are getting out and about. We get to see that pretty smile again.

Thanks, Mary. Great place and advice as always.

Happy Birthday Mary, my birthday was a week ago. Gotta love us Cancerians :) Thanks for bringing us along to your outing, I would love to experience one of those soon, the past year and a half locked down have made my need to socialize a priority.

Mary, you’re an inspiration and an absolute belter of a singer and guitarist. I’m glad I found your channel as you never fail to impress me and a great many other people in your openness and honesty in all that you write, sing and play in these videos. Please don’t ever stop as the world needs people like you to help show the way out of this waking nightmare that is the pandemic. Thank you. ❤️🎸🤘🏻

you are a huge inspiration dude! keep on keepin on!

Loved the song Mary.... you are just ridiculously lovely!

Nice video. Everyone looks so chilled and happy & content.

Bought the LAVA ME 2 at your recommendation, and I’ve been loving it! I’d not played for real in years, but since it arrived (just in time for my birthday this year), I’ve played at least 1ce a week because I love holding and using the guitar and it sounds better in my hands than any other string instrument I’ve played. Thank you thank you!

Happy birthday Mary!!

What a beautiful vibe this video has. I'd go to a festival like this in a heartbeat. Reminds me a little bit of late 80s Rainbow Gathering, though smaller still and even more chill (and less LSD.) Great performing and editing to capture this experience. Thank you!

Happy Birthday Mary 🥳❤️

Happy birthday love your channel.

Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🎊🎈🎁 ! We all need one of those guitars!!

Happy Belated Birthday Sweet 🎂🎂🥳🎉🎈🎁🎊

Happy belated birthday! Looks like you had proper fun!

I bought this guitar online sight unseen based on your reaction to it in the original video. Best thing I ever did. Love it and although I have many good guitars at home it is the only guitar I travel with. Thank you for that. It’s nice to see you still have it. I spend nearly half my time travelling Australia as a grey nomad and absolutely love mine.

Yeah if there had been an open mic You would have been the Main attraction at the Festival ! Loved the van too. As always such beautiful music from you! Thank you Mary!

That guitar is gorgeous and definitely on my Want List. Maybe one day! Yet another beautiful song and a belated Happy Birthday! 🎁🎂🎉😎

This video has a 2nd part, right? Because that duet sounds great... I Wana hear more! It's good to see you happy and enjoying your B-day. And thank for sharing you experience and knowledge, that help to my learning in the guitar world. Happy belated birthday 🎂🎉

Good to see you relaxed and happy. I love the camper van. It's great to see someone maintaining a British mark, even if it was owned by General Motors when it was born in 1984. I've been slowly losing my hearing in my 70s, but I thought you said the festival was in Penda. As in the king of Mercia in the early 600s? I loved touring the pre-millennial remains in England and reading about the history. In any case, this is a great video and added to a relaxing weekend for me.

Mary, Absolutely adore you! Glad you are getting out. Happy birthday beautiful brit and always enjoy your angelic voice. We are waiting for you in the states when life opens back up. Love electric guitars

Forget about Open Mic, I'm betting there are some people kicking themselves for not pulling you up on stage. Their loss.

Thanks for sharing your joy!

Happy birthday Mary.

Happy belated birthday Mary.

Loved that guitar

Loved the 'work in progress'.

After years of watching your content, during this vid I realized that you have an amazing eye for a screened shot. Well done.

Really like the sound of that guitar

Sweet and inspired. Love It!

More collabs with Shawn please. You two are a riot together. 😍 😍 Also love these 'on location' videos. Looks like a fun festival.

Just have to comment Mary. Happy Belated Birthday!

well Happy belated Birthday Mary

🎶"Someone better better come along"🎶 still pops into my mind from time to time! 😊

Ohhh, that duet teaser at the end ... that was evil. Would love to hear the full version of it.

Omg , that duet was amazing

Looks like a fine way to enjoy a birthday. Keep having fun and everything will flow in a creative way.

Oh, now that’s a teaser! We only get 6 seconds of the duet? Or is that coming in another video? Your voice still amazes.

Just, Happy Birthday!!

Music festival caravan Mary has such a great vibe, I’m totally digging the wind-swept hair =)

The last few seconds were the best. Sweet harmony

it looks lovely! missing that kind of stuff since what seems to be 5 years...

Happy belated Birthday! I really enjoyed this one-that little festival looks amazing! Love the singalong at the end too... (How's the action on that Lava-Me?)

Lovely to see you blossoming again in an environment that is perfect for you (apart from there being no open mic), and we get to see you as a happy hippy chick too. You'll be competing with Helen for the broadest smile on RU-vid at this rate! Ah the Bedford CF - that brings back memories. I drove one for a year back in '77 in my previous life as a sound engineer. Still can't believe how much gear we managed to cram into it. Did some great gigs with it. Hope you can get back to gigging soon.

One of my earliest memories is of riding in my uncle’s Bedford while on vacation in Scotland. It was 1963 and I was three years old. After we flew back home I pestered my folks for weeks about getting one. ☺️

Happy Birthday!

Hi MoE- You really cheered me up with your sweet little song Today so thank you love!😉❤️⭐️🌺 I have finally been able to walk around to start using my legs again but for the past week I’ve been stuck inside because of the heat. When it’s really hot the air quality usually makes it hard for me to breath.Ive been bummed out because of it. MTM- Mary the Marvelous made me think of brighter days to come! Thanks again Sweetheart! I love you too!🐺❤️⭐️💋🥰🤗🕊🦋

Still got mine, still love it, use it all the time - useful, practical, and inspiring, oh and cheap!

I got a red one after your first video. I love that thing!

I don't know about anyone else's favorite Mary song, but mine is still "Meet Me In Croatia."

I bought one because of you. Love it.

Has it been 2 years already since your carbon guitar video? - dang. Happy birthday!

Wow, you look really happy, relaxed and full of smiles in this vid. More than normal anyway. A few of your vids you have seemed a bit tired and stressed, but not this one. Oh, and Happy Birthday!

So nice to see happiness 🌻 thank you for sharing 🙏 ☮️kevin

Hi Mary! Love the video :) Which of the carbon fibre guitars is that - the Lava Me Pro or the Lava Me 2? Been looking at the latter as I need a travel guitar that can fit now I have 2 kids and space in the car is much more limited - also budget restrictions ... How have you found the Lava Me 2?

You look sun-kissed and joyful. Beautiful! Happy Summer! (The guitar is great too!)

One of the most pleasant speaking voices on RU-vid 👍🏻

Super cool!👌

I bought one of those guitars because I saw them in your video. (and because they're awesome). :)

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳

Ah yes... The guitar that made you marry Value Select's dad.

I love your talents! Would you consider doing another video with Leap Frog Studios? Keep playing that magic!

Happy birthday!

Mary, thank you for what you do and share with us, I found you when checking out Molly Tuttle. G.

You should come to the Priddy folk festival next year. Priddy is just outside Wells in Somerset, just in case you didn’t know 😊

Belated Happy Birthday! Carbon Fibre instruments are fantastic for playing outside in weather that changes, or in humid conditions. Too bad they didn't know you were attending the festival ... it would be great to perform!

1984? I was already into my 2nd career! I definitely did exist! Regards from an old codger.

Ah, festivals! It's great to see chilled festivals happening again. Looks awesome 👌🏼

Lovely to tag along to the festival with you and the carbon (dated) ...... one, two, three, four :)

There was something different in your smile in this video -- or was it just me? It's like the freedom of the festival and spending time with your friends lifted you to another level. It was wonderful to see. Thanks for taking us along, Mary.

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A lovely visit. Everyone likes a good chorus and I do too. But I’m the kind of person who silently shouts out Bridge! when the bridge comes up. In a funny way the bridge is like a Greek chorus stepping back and commenting on the main action. Greek Chorus. See that… Now that is an inspiration for a song. I’m just waiting for the Greek chorus… To tell us how we’re doing now… I turned and heard a Greek chorus, will they build us up or tear us down?

Full video of that duet please!

loveing the van verry fuw of them that havent turned into a pile of rust would love to see a modern virsion of it as a ev

Looks similar to Treehouse Festival, which is on this weekend (July 30 - August 1st) at Uffington by the White Horse. You should try it.

WOW, it's such a fab guitar.

I’m glad you had fun out there at the festival. Did you get to jam with any of the artists at the show?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I have that guitar (Lava Me 2) since early 2020 and the only problem I have had with it is that button on the top and trying to fit a strap to it. I play it here (Santa Fe, NM) because it gets very low humidity here in the winter and my Martin spends most of the time in its Musik Tent (ensures more or less constant humidity). Do you have a problem fitting a strap to the Lava Me 2?