Hamilton Guitar Association: March 2013

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Celtic Party Night at the HGA

Mon. March 18, at the good ol Pheasant Plucker, 20 Augusta Street, Hamilton

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

The HGA is proud to present a Celtic Party Night with the Celtic/Shanty/Bluegrass sounds of

Guitarist Micah O'Connell and fiddler Delia Macpherson

Click here for a bio of this Celtic Duo all the way from Halifax NS.

This is a rare oppertunity to enjoy this music,.... raise some pints, and extend Hamilton's welcome, in the midst of this duo's cross country tour. Bring out those party tunes!

here is a video from a performance live at the Horseshoe.

See you Monday,

hmmm,.... I think I might get my wife to drive

Friday, March 29, 2013

Fisher-Price Town

Check out Greg's new video

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Albert Pasqua and Friends

New site for Alfie Smith

Learn how to get a song on itunes at ReverbNation.com

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Mark Vanderheyden

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Mike McGuire

Saturday, March 16, 2013

HGA Featuring Albert Pasqua

Mon. March 18, at the good ol Pheasant Plucker, 20 Augusta Street, Hamilton

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

This week, the HGA is proud to present, singer songwriter,

fingerstyle guitar player of many comments and tunings, the often well bearded,

ALBERT PASQUA

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”I picked up the acoustic guitar late in life (early twenties), and it didn't take long to develop an aversion to the infernal plastic pick. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by a group of musical friends with eclectic musical tastes before stumbling across the world of extraordinary fingerstyle guitar - I have never been the same! So, I began to write around 2002, and a couple of years later, I began to play my music live.”

Catch this vid of albert at the club, there are excellent instrumentals available at his myspace page, (yes myspace, it still exists)

see you Monday,

Mark

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Sarah Beatty and Gary White

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Alfie And Shawn

Saturday, March 2, 2013

HGA featuring Sarah Beatty

Mon. March 4, at the good ol Pheasant Plucker, 20 Augusta Street, Hamilton 7:30 sign in, show starts at 8:00 This week, the HGA is proud to present, singer songwriter Sarah Beatty with Gary White

Sarah's gifted vocal harmony and song writing, backed up by rock solid and groovy guitar rhythm are available on her debut cd, Black Gramaphone. This super smart and fun recording spent like two weeks on endless loop in the drive by shooting van, and features some lead work by Gary White. Now, I'll always take any excuse to drag killer lead man, Gary White to the HGA stage. This is going to be one of the coolest shows of the season See you there, Mark

S.O.F.G.A.

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