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Lesson Program
Folkway Music provides high quality instruction from knowledgeable, accomplished musicians -- in a wide variety of styles and instruments.
Our lessons are customized to meet the needs of youth (age 6+) to adult, and beginner to advanced students.
We offer instruction in guitar, banjo, lap steel, mandolin, fiddle, bass, and ukulele. Lessons offered at Folkway Music include acoustic, electric, classical, fingerstyle, blues, rock, pop, slide, jazz, improv and bluegrass flat-picking guitar; bluegrass and clawhammer banjo; beginner, celtic and bluegrass mandolin and beginner fiddle.
All of our teachers have numerous years of experience as both performing musicians and instructors of their chosen instruments. We make sure each student is matched with the teacher best fitted for their individual needs, ensuring an exciting learning experience.
With their own entrance, waiting area and air conditioned, nicely lit layout, our studios provide a comfortable and constructive learning environment.
We are expanding our lesson schedule! We are adding new teachers with weekday and Saturday availability, in addition to our existing evening lessons.
Payment & Policies
- Lesson rates are $25 per half hour
- Payments are to be made to the staff at Folkway Music during regular store hours
- All students may choose to prepay by the month by post dated cheques or by pre-authorized credit card statements
Cancellation Policy:
Students must contact Folkway Music with 24 hours notice for any cancellation to qualify for a make-up lesson.
Instructors
Mike Brooks
Basic to advanced guitar: pop, rock, country, folk, and modern for all ages.
Basic to intermediate guitar: jazz harmony & theory
Mike is an active session instrumentalist in Canada’s music scene. Entrenched in a variety of working bands and songwriter networks, Mike has seen countless studios, venues and shared the stage with some of Canada’s foremost musical talents. His focus has been on guitars and music theory, and also includes pedal steel, keyboards and vocals. In addition to repertoire, theory, exercises and rudiments, Mike likes to leave space for discussions on improvisation and composition, musicology and music appreciation, music business and networking, and ear training and listening sessions. Mike is happy to teach students of all ages and experience levels on acoustic or electric.
Rich Burnett Head Instructor
Beginner and intermediate guitar for students of all ages. Beginner lap steel & ukulele.
Rich has been writing and studying music for over 20 years. For the last ten years he's been a performing singer-songwriter and sideman in the greater GTA. An accomplished guitarist, Burnett teaches beginner and intermediate levels of both acoustic & electric guitar. Happy teaching students of all ages, lessons are structured around each students abilities and interests. Lessons include the fundamentals of rhythm, reading, flat-picking, finger-picking, theory, composition and improvisation. Styles include popular song, rock, folk, country blues, slide, open tunings & Travis/Atkins style.
Brad Canning
Beginner and intermediate pop, blues & rock for all ages
Brad has been teaching for 6 years. He started playing drums and guitar at the age of 11. By the age of 12 he was already performing around Newfoundland with a gospel group. Now based in Stratford, Ontario, Brad has been performing original music across Ontario opening for such notable Canadian artists as Dayna Manning, Jack De Keyzer, Valdy & Colin Linden. In 2007 his band recorded their first LP titled "Take A Chance" showcasing Brad's guitar work, songwriting and vocals.
Eddie Douglas
Adult beginner guitar
Eddie has performed in the UK and Canada. He’s toured with a soul band, played in several rock band and performed at folk clubs and festivals, playing various styles of traditional and contemporary music; in a céilidh band, as an accompanist in a folk duo, and as a solo musician. Eddie also creates music for children with an emphasis on writing and arranging music for children’s poetry. He currently performs for children at schools, libraries and festivals, and works as a supply teacher. Eddie earned a JUNO nomination in 2008 for his second CD and is currently working on his third recording. Eddie’s lessons teach the skills needed for effective guitar accompaniment. Students will learn a variety of chords including barre chords and alternative voicings, connecting chords, strumming techniques, and basic finger-style patterns, with minimal focus on music theory.
Greg Denton
Three finger/blue grass style banjo
Greg picked up the banjo in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1991 and first cut his teeth on the instrument playing with the rag tag art school jug band ‘Uncle Jobie’s Spit Trick’. He now lives in Guelph, Ontario, where he teaches painting in the School of Fine Art & Music at the University of Guelph and entangles himself in the downtown music scene. Over the last few years he has fronted the band ‘Dry Tickle’, and has lent his reedy vocals, banjo, and guitar skills to two all-murder-ballad groups ‘The Trembling Brides’ and ‘The Gnashvillains’. He currently plucks the banjo with ‘Richard Laviolette & The Oil Spills’and can be heard on their CD “All Of Your Raw Materials”. Greg also hosts the very popular Cornerstone Café Campfire Sessions (Nov-April) and hosts ‘This Un-Godly Hour’ (Sundays at 7:00 AM on CFRU 93.3FM), an eclectic vintage and contemporary roots music radio show.
Bob MacLean
Fingerstyle guitar, folk traditional, celtic, blues styles
Bob is a guitarist, folksinger, arranger and composer who has pursued formal music training, obtaining music degrees from McGill and Western. With roots in Cape Breton and Quebec, Bob has played lots of styles including rock n' roll, classical, pop, folk and traditional/celtic. He performs frequently as a solo player (traditional and celtic folk music with lots of percussive Fingerstyle guitar) and in various ensembles with Randy Jackiw, Juanita Wilkins and Whirley Gig In addition to 2 independent solo CD projects, Bob has recorded with Allison Lupton, Mary Anderson, Doug Jamieson, and contributed to a compilation CD of noted Canadian guitarists. Bob’s students can go back to basics with lots studies and exercises to advance both left and right hand techniques to increase dexterity and expand knowledge of the fretboard.
Don Moore
Beginner and intermediate guitar
Don Moore has been a teacher and professional musician for about 15 years. He has toured and recorded with pop, jazz/fusion, blues, and celtic influenced bands such as Mary Knickle, Taliesin, and Max Bent, and has performed at venues across the country including Harbourfront, Mariposa Festival, Sunshine Festival, Songs of Sail festival, the Victoria Playhouse, the Dini Petty Show, and CBC radio. He has been a studio musician, pit musician, and a singer/actor in numerous professional theatre productions. His main influences are jazz, fusion, blues, rock, country, and celtic music, but is comfortable in any style. Don's teaching focuses on building the student's theoretical, sight-reading, and technical skills in order to develop a well-rounded player who is comfortable and competent in any musical style or performance situation.
Chris Reaume
Intermediate and beginner clawhammer banjo, beginner and intermediate mandolin, beginner fiddle, beginner and intermediate classical, acoustic and electric, folk, American fingerstyles, blues, and jazz guitar
Chris Reaume has been playing music from a young age, and currently teaches students of all ages. After trying his hand at a number of instruments from string to woodwind to brass, he discovered the guitar at age 13 and couldn't put it down. Twenty years later he is playing and teaching a number of stringed instruments in a variety of genres including approaches to popular music and improvising.
Steve Sladkowski
Beginner and intermediate jazz, bluegrass, and popular guitar for all ages
As a player, Steve is active on the Southern Ontario independent music scene and currently performs with several groups in the Guelph and Toronto areas. He has recently completed his BA in Music at the University of Guelph. In lessons, he seeks to provide students with a holistic understanding of music by teaching basic musicianship, technique, improvisation, and composition through the exploration of repertoire suited to the student's tastes and skill level.
Jesse Turton
Basic to advanced instruction of electric bass (fretted or fretless) and upright acoustic bass; Pizzicato (plucked) or Coll'arco (with a bow).
Jesse Turton has been playing music all his life, starting on the drums at the age of 9. He picked up the bass at 14, and a year later won a scholarship to the world-renowned Berklee College of Music for their 1992 summer program. At the age of 17, Jesse won the 1993 Galaxie CBC Rising Star Award at MusicFest Canada, and entered Humber College with a scholarship the following year. Since he was 15, Jesse has played professionally in jazz, blues, rock, and R&B bands in both Canada and the US, and has appeared on a number of recordings. His preferred instruments are the upright acoustic bass and both fretted and fretless electric bass. He presently plays in a number of ensembles and lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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