Wednesday April 16, 3:30 - 4:30pm
Join renowned guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Murray for an interactive learning experience that will maximize your creativity and push you to new heights on the guitar and in your music. Through hands-on creative exercises, learn how to explore the instrument in new and inspiring ways, identify and effectively develop your next steps, and ultimately bring it all together to achieve your musical goals. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, you'll walk away inspired and with a clear path forward towards your continued musical development.
Bring your guitar and jump in! All ages, all levels welcome.
Participants save $10 at the door for Mike's evening show with Paul DeLong's ONE WORD at Sadleir House on the same night, April 16 at 7pm.Mike Murray is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and music educator based in Toronto. In addition to his performance career, Mike is an avid and experienced educator both independently and as a long-standing faculty member at Centennial College in their Music Industry Arts and Performance program.
Proficient in a wide variety of styles including pop, rock, classical, jazz, blues, and musical theater, as well as international styles including latin folk, Indian music and more, he performs and records with a diverse array of artists and organizations in many different settings. Some of these include the Art of Time Ensemble, musical theatre productions of Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Titanique, Mamma Mia, Little Shop of Horror, Jagged Little Pill, and In Dreams, award-winning comedy act Garrett Jamieson and Sprattacus, Bollywood superstars Karthik and Vijay Prakash, internationally renowned Sufi rock outfit Mekaal Hasan Band, for which he serves as musical director, and many more. He also composes and performs his own music with the Mike Murray Group, a genre-bending ensemble featuring virtuosic musicianship and deep, imaginative composition.