Hamilton Guitar Association: Mike Anderson Feature set..Grand Finale

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Mike Anderson Feature set..Grand Finale

HGA... Sofga meeting

Mon. May 28 , at the Pheasant Plucker, 20 Augusta Street, Hamilton

7:30 sign in, show starts at 8:00

    Another year has come to and end. Time to come out and bid all your friends adieu till fall. This is the last meeting until September and like last year, we'll finish off the season with an anticipated feature set from "Slappy" ,... "Iron" Mike "Mikey" Anderson.

   Apparently Mike has squandered an entire year learning, studying and playing the piano of all things. Help me put him firmly back on track as a guitar musician, looking forward to an illustrious career of bar food, stale draft beer and pass the hat pay structures.

Check out this vid of doing Mike doing a Don Ross tune.

    As I've said before, Mike is the best, young progressive style player I've seen. I'm pretty sure, after Monday, you'll say the same.

See you tomorrow,

Mark

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Southern Ontario Fingerstyle Guitar Association

Some five years ago, I typed finger style guitar into a search engine because that was the type of playing I wanted to explore. Mostly because I was tired of replacing all my lost guitar picks. What I found was the SOFGA, a club dedicated to this guitar style and encourageing new people to learn by providing a non competative performance environment. They met right here in Hamilton, I knew that this was something I had to check out.

What I found was a community of people enjoying each other's music, company and friendship. And the amazing music! Cutting edge acoustic, celtic, old blues , entire bands seems to leap from guitars held by one person. No fake effects or back tape. Each meeting, one great player after the next would play. Then, one of them would take some time to show you thier style.

This is where I found my guitar teacher and mentors and some realley good friends. Though I was just a beginner, these people seemed to have a genuine desire to hear my music. This encouragement was pivital, at a time when the rest of the world just wanted me to forget the whole guitar thing .

Some five years later, when it comes to music, I still don't have it all together most of the time, but I've come a long way, mostly thanks to SOFGA.

Now , it's called the Hamilton Guitar Association but the goal and spirit are the same. That's why I'm happy to slug all the gear up the stairs at the Pheasent Plucker every other week, set up the mics and board, then, watch it all unfold.

Mark V