Paddy Burgin of Wellington New Zealand will be in Canada July 29 ,2023 to give a 4 hour workshop on Playing the Weissenborn  / lapsteel  guitar.He will show you how to easliy lift the strings of your regular guitar for slide playing . among many other sweet techniques.   Paddy has built instruments for David Lindley and many other players world wide.  Various styles and techniques will be discussed, to help you get more out of your lapsteel !
       The workshop takes place in Manitou Beach SK. 10am to 2 pm  There will be a concert separate from the workshop at the Little Manitou Art Gallery in the evening  at 8 pm!

 Spaces are limited

Weissenborn workshop

four hour workshop with Paddy Burgin on playing lapsteel/ weissenborn styles and techniques. Here is a sample of is playing during a break from his luthier business.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqIKiZLhHLc
      The workshop will take place in Manitou Beach SK> July 29,2023 from 10am to 2 pm . Paddy will be playing a concert that nite at Little Manitou Art Gallery .
      
New Zealander Paddy Burgin has been playing music for a long time and much of that has been weissenborn slide guitar. 

He's spent much of the past twenty five years making and playing these instruments solo, 
in bands, and on recordings of his own original material. 
In that time he's refined his instrument building and playing style and is keen to pass on his 
knowledge of the instrument, and its application to other music. 
Paddy's instruments have been owned and played by DaVid Lindley, Danny Spitz of Anthrax, Henry Kaiser 
and many others around the world. They can be heard extensively on the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's movie, 
Encounters and the End of the World. (played by David Lindley) 
Paddy learned his guitar making skills from Saskatchewan luthier David Freeman (Timeless Instruments) 
and David is facilitating the workshop, and the concert that evening.



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