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October 26 & 27 at Douglas College

 

Music and
history of the
guitar featured
at College
festival

ttention all buskers,
minstrels, luthiers, and
lovers of guitars in general.

The Lower Mainland’s first ever
Guitar Festival will be held at
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Left to right: Guitar building instructor Michael Dunn, Douglas
College Musical Instrument Construction student Chuck Shifflett,
and Music instructor Michael Strutt.

Westminster October 26 and 27.

The festival will feature con-
certs, workshops, and a display of
hand-made guitars. It’s the
brainchild of Michael Strutt who
teaches guitar at the College and
Michael Dunn, the instructor of a
program in stringed instrument
construction. Both want to
celebrate the music and history of
the guitar, while highlighting the
quality of their programs.

“We have the most successful
classical guitar program in the
Lower Mainland,” says Strutt. “We
want to celebrate that by being the
first to hold a festival like this. I’m

hoping it will become a yearly
event.”

Dunn’s guitar-building pro-
gram, now in it’s fifth year, is not
only successful, it’s unique. “It’s
the only one in Canada,” he says.
The program develops skills in the
construction and repair of musical
instruments for people who want
to operate a business in that field,
and for musicians in general.

“A lot of musicians take the
program just to learn more about
guitars,” he says. “They’ve never
found a guitar they liked, so they

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