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With their own entrance, air conditioning, and a spacious, nicely lit layout, our lessons studios provide a wonderfully inviting and relaxed environment to learn how to play your chosen instrument. In keeping with Folkway's acoustic heritage, lessons are offered for a number of different acoustic instruments. We offer instruction in banjo, mandolin, fiddle, bass, dulcimer, ukulele, and of course, guitar.
LLessons offered at Folkway Music include beginner to advanced acoustic or electric guitar for kids and adults, classical guitar, acoustic fingerstyle, Blues, Rock, Bluegrass flat-picking, Appalachian and Bluegrass banjo; beginner, Celtic and Bluegrass mandolin and fiddle, and beginner violin for kids 6 years old and up. Lesson rates are $25 per half hour.
For more details, please contact Richard Burnett, Lessons Program Coordinator at 519-763-5524, or email info@folkwaymusic.com.
Instructors
Rich Burnett
Rich Burnett has been writing, performing and studying music for over 15 years. Burnett has been teaching beginner and intermediate Guitar for more than 5 years and has recently included Beginner Lap Steel and Ukulele lessons into his repertoir. Comfortable teaching students of all ages Burnett is happy to teach the following styles of guitar: Country, Blues, Rock, Popular, Folk & Campfire.
Duncan Cameron - fiddle, guitar, whistles, bodhràn, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, English concertina, and Appalachian dulcimer.
Duncan Cameron is well known at Celtic music venues and folk festivals for his strong vocals and remarkable instrumental abilities. He plays twelve instruments including fiddle, guitar, whistles, bodhràn, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, English concertina, and Appalachian dulcimer.
For over fifteen years, Duncan has been teaching group classes and private lessons. He has transcribed several fiddle books, and recorded instructional CDs.
In 1998, Duncan Cameron joined Mary Jane Lamond and John McDermott as one of the original cast members of the hit theatrical show Needfire, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Duncan's debut solo album The Whistling Thief (2000) features both traditional and original songs and instrumentals. He has also toured in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. with Fig For A Kiss, Tamarack. Duncan, as a member of The Pierre Schryer Band, also recorded on the Blue Drag CD, which was nominated for the "Best Roots/Traditional Album of the Year" Juno Award in 2004.
Available for lessons Wed. 3:30 - 6:00
Neil Douglas - Classical, Flamenco and Fingerstyle
Neil Douglas (BMus, BEd) has over 25 years of studying and playing experience. He started playing guitar at the age of 10 and started classical guitar at the age of 16. He studied classical guitar in high school and took lessons at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with William Trotter before entering the music program at Wilfrid Laurier University. While at Laurier he studied guitar with Tibor Puskas and Lynne Gangbar.
Neil has worked as a freelance musician for over 20 years. He has played for many weddings and private functions as well as playing at many fine dining restaurants in south western Ontario. He has taught guitar at Bob Gray Music in Waterloo and for The Beckett School of Music as well as teaching privately. He currently performs solo and is a member of the "Latin Fusion Trio". The trio plays a mixture of Latin and rumba flamenco music.
Neil plays and offers lessons in classical guitar as well as flamenco and fingerstyle steel string guitar.
Available for lessons Tues. 5:30 - 8:30
Matthew Glass - Celtic Mandolin and Fiddle, Tenor Banjo
Matthew Glass studied music and other things at California State University, Fresno. He has played mandolin and guitar for over thirty years, and fiddle for over twenty, as well as tenor banjo and cittern. He enjoys playing and teaching Irish, old-timey, jazz and music theory. He has played in a variety of celtic, folk and jazz groups in his native California, South Dakota and New Jersey. Since moving to southern Ontario in 1999, he has been performing with the Irish group Hair of the Dog, and has been part of the Wilson/Glass jazz duo, and the punk-bluegrass mutation Dry Tickle.
Available for lessons Wed. 6:30 - 8:30
Jordan Howard
Guelph's own Jordan Howard has been playing guitar for more than 14 years now. After receiving private lessons for his first five years as a guitar student, Jordan was eager to use what he learned and create his own music.
Over the years, Jordan has performed with many different ensembles including the popular Nathan Coles Outfit, who released a CD and toured half of Canada in 2005. Jordan is currently pursuing a degree in music at York University.
His efforts have made him a highly imaginative and sought-after guitarist. He is happy to have the opportunity to share his knowledge with other aspiring guitar players.
Available for lessons Monday and Tuesday 3:30-5 and Thursday 3:30-5, 7:30-8:30
Bob MacLean - Intermediate/Advanced Fingerstyle
Bob is a guitarist, folksinger, arranger and composer. He 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 - Six Strings North of the Border II.
Bob seems to attract students who are looking to advance their fingerstyle solo or accompanying skills in folk/ traditional music, Celtic, blues styles. Be prepared to 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.
Available for lessons Wed. 6:30 - 9:00
Ian Molesworth - Banjo, Adult Beginner guitar
Ian Molesworth has been playing acoustic music for more than 30 years. His first instrument was the five string banjo. From the age of fourteen until he was eighteen years old, every possible waking hour was spent playing the banjo. Beginning university at Guelph in 1975 necessitated a switch to guitar. (Playing a lot of banjo does not always go over big in a university residence).
It was a natural progression to play fingerstyle guitar after the banjo, but it was a chance meeting backstage at the Carlisle Bluegrass Festival with a band called Haywire, who happened to be looking for a Flatpicking guitarist, that changed his direction once again.
In the 90's, Molesworth expanded his horizons to eclectic/contemporary folk when he joined forces with versatile Guelph vocalist Brenda Lewis to form the duo `Hurt & Run" (later known as Lewis & Molesworth). Together, they released two recordings: "The Stationmaster"(1993) and "Heart So Black" (1995) - which received airplay on both CBC and BBC radio.
His studio work has included appearances on children's recordings by Jongerbonger (Harry Jongerden) and Eddie Douglas. Most recently, a new instrumental piece was included in the DROG CD release: "One Minute Songs"
Another chance encounter, this time with a garage sale banjo, brings this tale full circle. Banjo has now been his main focus. For the last four years he has been woodshedding and studying, including regular lessons with banjo wunderkind Jayme Stone from Toronto.
Ian will be teaching fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar, basic three finger style banjo technique, including Scruggs style and melodic fiddle tune style as well as beginner mandolin.
Available for lessons Mon. - Fri. 1:00 - 8:30, Sat. 1:00 - 5:00
Don Moore - Beginner guitar, Jazz and Rock
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 Festival, Mariposa Festival, Sunshine Festival, the Toronto First Night festival, the Transac Club, 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.
Available for lessons Mon. 4:00 - 8:30, Wed. 3:00 - 6:00
Steve Simmons - Beginner guitar
Steve is a self-taught guitarist from the age of 16 until auditioning for the Applied Music Program at the University of Guelph where he studied Jazz Guitar for four years with Howard Spring, a renowned jazz musician and Professor of world music.
Steve played in the Contemporary Music Ensemble directed by Ellen Waterman and the Improvisational Ensemble headed by Jesse Stewart while studying at the University.
Since graduating Steve has been a professional musician doing contract work for the CBC television show "Play" and performing all over Southern Ontario with his bands "The Speakeasies", and "Remnants". They have frequented venues such as the Hillside Festival, the Lake Alive Festival in Puslinch, The Horseshoe Bar and Tavern, El Mocambo and the Big Bop.
Available for lessons Mon. 4:30 - 7:00, Tues. 4:00 - 7:30, Wed. 4:00 - 7:30, Thurs. 4:00 - 6:30
Jesse Turton
Jesse has been playing music all his life, learning drums formally 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 follwing 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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