Glasgow’s award-winning multi-instrumentalist Innes Watson has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his new project the Guitar Colloquium. The project came about in 2011 with a New Voices commission from Celtic Connections and is a celebration of the guitar. Whilst the guitar is one of the most widely played and accessible instruments Innes is seeking to change two things about guitar music:
1. The lack of repertoire written specifically for guitar, especially in the traditional music world,
and
2. The lack of guitar-guitar collaboration. That’s what my Guitar Colloquium does: creates and shares new repertoire to challenge and support all ability levels and facilitates guitarists to collaborate and perform together. It’s also brilliant music played by brilliant musicians and a good show to boot.
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He goes onto explain that the album is not just an album.
“It’s the first step in establishing a community of guitarists of all ability levels; developing a more progressive and open-minded approach to guitar playing, composing, teaching and collaboration; and making my dreams come true – ok less important on the grand scale but still, I’m fully invested here. Whether you’re a guitarist, a guitar enthusiast, love your music or just want to see more good stuff in the world – we need your support.”
Find out more here via Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/innes/x/8478512