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Greetings from Port Hope, Ontario

My name is Mark Noel and i have just begun my CBG journey. I am in the middle of my first fretless build and can't wait to finish so i can hone my slide chops on her.

I see they have quite a few festivals organized in the US for CBG's and would love to see us Canucks get some going. Drop me a line on where you are and maybe we can get a group together in Ontario to jam and share trade secrets. Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by jawbone on January 4, 2014 at 2:57am

That sounz real sweet!!!

Permalink Reply by Dead Head Wood Works on April 7, 2014 at 4:39pm

Come to my show in Toronto Thursday night April 10th!

Permalink Reply by Greg Potts on July 16, 2014 at 9:50am

Well, here's some news that's close to Port Hope....

Shelter Valley Folk Festival has accepted my application to the Artists Village at the festival coming up on Labour Day Weekend. I'll be hawking my wares and possibly hosting a workshop as well. Shelter Valley isn't far from Port Hope, maybe 20 minutes or less.

Slow Lane Music recently completed our 26th build and is gonna keep me plenty busy through the summer building up inventory to sell at the festival.

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