October 2009 \ Features \ Gallery: Canada's National Guitar: the Voyageur

Gallery: Canada's National Guitar: the Voyageur

Gayla Drake Paul

The places, people and parts that make the Voyageur so special.
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Emma Roche
on 02/04/2011 		An Evening with Jowi Taylor - please join us for this great event. Thursday, February 10th Tickets are $20 each Doors open at 7:00pm. The event begins at 7:30pm. The event will take place at Walmer Church - http://www.walmer.ca/ Go to www.rsgc.on.ca to purchase tickets. If you have any questions, email Emma Roche at eroche@rsgc.on.ca. Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested. A musical quilt, this unique guitar becomes a passionate metaphor for Canada. The [ http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Six- String-Nation-Jowi-Taylor/9781553653936- item.html?ikwid=six+string+nation&ik wsec=Home ]Six String Nation guitar, Voyageur, is made from sixty seven pieces of Canadian history: Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle is a tone bar, the Grey Nuns convent in Winnipeg-once a classroom to Louis Riel-makes up the back and sides, Paul Henderson's hockey stick from the 1972 Canada Russia Summit Series is a detail on the pickguard, the sacred Golden Spruce of Haida Gwaii forms the top face and gold from Maurice Richard's 1955-56 Stanley Cup ring adorns the ninth fret. Thanks to a crazed determination to share this guitar and his impassioned vision of Canada with as many Canadians as possible, Taylor has taken the guitar to festivals, conferences, schools and community events, from sea to sea to sea. Along the way, countless citizens have added their own definitions of what it means to be Canadian, either through music or the very act of engaging with this object that is at once artifact and living instrument. Six String Nation allows them to, literally, hold history in their hands-and add a little harmony of their own. Illustrated with documentary photos and gorgeous portraits of the people that Voyageur has encountered, Six String Nation chronicles the journey of one special guitar, from conception through construction to the road it still travels across our land.
Jowi Taylor
on 08/05/2010 		Jerry - just so you know - Gordon did eventually play Voyageur at his 70th birthday party at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
Alex M
on 09/27/2009 		The coolest thing about this guitar is that EVERYONE is invited to play on it... it belongs to all Canadians. Thanks for posting the pictures!
Jerry Knowles
on 09/25/2009 		I didn't see anything about Gordin Lightfoot playing it. I mean surely Gordon Lightfoot would have been one of the first.
Pat
on 09/24/2009 		Man I played this guitar last year in school, it's an absolute beauty to play!



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