Antoine won this years
Canadian Guitar Festival held in Odessa back at the end of July. Part of his first place prize pack was the prepaid registration to compete at the
Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. Don placed second in the first round and just missed out of third overall by a mere 5.5 points. The top half of the competition was so far above the rest of us, it wasn't funny. I scored less then half of Antoine so you know how much work I have in front of me.
Eric has been mentioned here on the forums before. You can find the one I started
here. Funny, Eric was at Odessa on the Saturday. I never got to speak to him as he always had a group of people around. Or, was busy trying out all the guitars. He was registered to compete and I was very disappointed on Sunday to learn he'd left. I heard a number of different reasons given but after seeing the videos and listening to the sound clips on his website I'm sure it wasn't nerves or lack of talent. Dat buoy got groove!
(We need a new smiley for funky fingerstyle players)