From: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org (canadian-music-digest) To: canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Subject: canadian-music-digest V5 #5 Reply-To: canadian-music@smoe.org Sender: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk canadian-music-digest Monday, February 4 2002 Volume 05 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Martina Sorbara, Luthier [Paul Schreiber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 08:51:27 -0800 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Martina Sorbara, Luthier There's a neat article on CANOE about Martina's guitar-making: http://canoe.ca/HGRenovation_CanadianHomeWorkshop02/winter_guitar-par.html A Luthier's Labour Martina Sorbara's guitars resonate with craftsmanship By PAUL JAY Photography provided by MARTINA SORBARA The relationship between musician and instrument has always been an intimate one, and few instruments illicit the full array of human emotions like the guitar. Jimi Hendrix used to sleep with his. Pete Townshend smashed his. Many name their guitars, and treat them like old friends or passionate lovers. Martina Sorbara, a rising Toronto-based singer-songwriter, is no exception. But her connection to her guitar is a little more like that of mother and child. After all, she is giving birth to them. In her workshop. "My last guitar took me six months to build," says the 22-year-old musician, who plays both guitar and piano while mixing folk, pop and jazz styles into her music. "It took a little longer than it probably should have, but you get going and then reach a certain point when you just can't take it anymore and want to give up. I've heard the same thing about going through labour." [snip] shad 96c / uw cs 2001 / mac activist / fumbler / eda / headliner / navy-souper fan of / sophie b. / steve poltz / habs / bills / 49ers / "Hands manifest thought." -- Jewel Kilcher ------------------------------ End of canadian-music-digest V5 #5 **********************************