The Fretboard Journal Guitar Podcast20 Apr 2017

Podcast 144: Luthiers Linda Manzer, David Wren and Tony Duggan-Smith

On today's podcast, acclaimed luthiers Linda Manzer, David Wren and Tony Duggan-Smith gather around Manzer's kitchen table to talk to us about their new Group of Seven guitar project.

The Group of Seven consisted of Canadian landscape painters Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Franklin Carmichael, Frank Johnston, F.H. Varley and A.Y. Jackson. These seven artist friends were prolific through the 1920s and early '30s and are now considered highly influential.

Manzer saw similarities between the bond these seven legendary artists had and the one she shares with fellow luthiers and friends who studied under Jean Larrivee, decades ago. She decided to pay homage by having seven guitars built. Each luthier would focus on a different Group of Seven member.

The luthiers participating include Manzer, Sergi de Jonge, Duggan-Smith, Wren, George Gray, Grit Laskin and Jean Larrivée. The luthiers also built an eighth guitar as a group to pay tribute to painter Tom Thomson.

The project launches May 6, 2017 at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection outside of Toronto and the guitars will be on display through October in a room right next to the art that inspired them.

http://mcmichael.com/event/the-group-of-seven-guitar-project-summer-2017/
http://www.manzer.com/guitars/
http://www.wrenguitarworks.com
http://www.tonyduggan-smith.com
https://www.fretboardjournal.com

This episode is sponsored by our friends at Retrofret and Dying Breed Music.

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