ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, SEPT. 16, 1999When you lift Les Finnigan’s Stories Without Words CD out of its clear plastic tray, you expect to see a picture of the 28-year-old fingerstyle guitarist-composer, or maybe some production notes, in the space behind it. Instead there’s a black-and-white snapshot of a severely mangled guitar case … Continue reading Les Finnigan figures all fingerstyle guitarists should learn Yes’s “Mood For a Day”
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South African guitar wizard Guy Buttery calls Vancouver’s Don Alder “an absolute monster”
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON SEPT. 3, 2013 By Steve Newton The world is full of great acoustic guitarists, but every now and again one comes along who really blows you away. Vancouver’s own Don Alder—whose percussive, wall-of-sound compositional approach has helped him win major competitions around the world—is one of them. Another is South Africa’s Guy … Continue reading South African guitar wizard Guy Buttery calls Vancouver’s Don Alder “an absolute monster”
Vancouver acoustic-guitar great Don Alder finds one fan at a time
Not long after turning 16, Don Alder went flying out of the back of a pickup truck in Williams Lake, but managed to survive unscathed.