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Terry Hart Now Managing D'Arcy Wickham
Fingerstyle Guitar Associations in Ontario
Musicians and Injuries
The Canadian Guitar Festival
PAGA Presents D'Arcy Wickham Guitar Workshop and Concert

Terry Hart Now Managing D'Arcy Wickham

For the past year, Terry Hart has been managing the music career of D'Arcy Wickham. This has encompassed publicity, promotion, public relations, booking, and web design and maintenance on his Sonicbids website. Recently, Terry has taken over the maintenence of D'Arcy's website here, as well. For more information on Terry, visit his website:
Terry Hart

D'Arcy has had a very eventful year in 2007, including appearances at the Greenbank Folk Society in Greenbank, Acoustic Harvest in Toronto, the Hamilton Folk Society, and the Ontario Conference of Folk Festivals Conference in London, where he showcased his tune "Feather Fingers" as the winner in the instrumental category of the "Songs from the Heart" competition. For a snapshot of D'Arcy's music over the past year, visit his Sonicbids website at:
D'Arcy Wickham

D'Arcy also happens to be Terry's guitar teacher. For information on D'Arcy's music lessons, see his website at
D'Arcy Wickham.

Fingerstyle Guitar Associations in Southern Ontario

For those who might be interested in joining a fingerstyle guitar organization in Southern Ontario (joining is free!), here are the appropriate people to contact. All organizations have regular open mike nights and regular concerts featuring fingerstyle guitar.

Southern Ontario Fingerstyle Guitar Association
Contact: Shawn Trotter
44 Guise Street East
Hamilton Ontario
905-525-9639
www.sofga.com
strotter@sofga.com

Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar Association
Contact: Randy Finney, President & Founder
www.torontofingerstyleguitar.com
fingerstyleguitar@rogers.com

Pickering-Ajax Guitar Association
Contact: Terry Hart
www.terryhart.ca.

York Region Fingerstyle Guitar Association
Contact: Bob Vopni
www.yrfga.com
yrfga@yrfga.com


An excellent resource for guitarists is the following, and membership once again is free:

The Canadian Guitar Players Association
Contact: Jan Menkal
www.guitarassociation.org

Musicians and Injuries

For anyone who has experienced any form of tendonitis, carpel tunnel syndrome, or other discomfort or injury as a result of playing a guitar, there is an excellent book available to address those very injuries. The title is "The Athletic Musician: a Guide to Playing without Pain". It is available at amazon.com. The authors also run a physiotherapy clinic in Newmarket, ON specifically for musicians: Stouffville Musicians Injuries Clinic. I bring this information forward strictly as a service to fellow musicians. I have no connection to the authors except as a person who has benefited from their advice.

The Canadian Guitar Festival

This is the event to catch all the big and emerging Canadian and international fingerstyle guitar players. It happens July 20 - 22, 2007 in Odessa, just a few kilometres west of Kingston, ON. The whole weekend is amazingly affordable and the talent is mindboggling. Check out details at the festival website:
www.canadianguitarfestival.com