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On today\\u2019s podcast, acclaimed luthiers Linda Manzer, David Wren and Tony Duggan-Smith gather around Manzer\'s\\xa0kitchen table to talk to us about their new Group of Seven guitar project.\\xa0

The Group of Seven consisted\\xa0of Canadian landscape painters Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Franklin Carmichael, Frank Johnston, F.H. Varley and A.Y. Jackson. These\\xa0seven artist friends were prolific through the 1920s and early \'30s and are now considered highly influential.\\xa0

Manzer\\xa0saw similarities between the bond these seven legendary artists\\xa0had 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.\\xa0Each\\xa0luthier 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 Larriv\\xe9e.\\xa0The luthiers also built an eighth guitar as a group to pay tribute to painter\\xa0Tom Thomson.\\xa0

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.\\xa0

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.