BOB EVANS

Bob is one of Canada's best kept finger style guitar secrets.  Oh sure, he had an American restaurant chain named after him.  But with the 1999 release of his CD Caffeinated Coffee and the fact that he placed first in the National Finger Style Guitar Championship at the 2003 Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, the musical part of the secret is finally becoming not such a secret any more.

Bob's first musical awakenings happened as a teenager as an audience member at the 1st Regina Folk Festival in 1969.  It wasn't very long after that event that his prodigous abilities became known.  He released an LP recording in 1975 simply titled Bob Evans which just featured himself on guitar, banjo and vocals.  There was another solo "little record", a 7" extended play, released in 1979 called Horizontal which by any guitar standards was, and still is, a collectible landmark in the ragtime guitar genre.  There are other recordings he had a part in but you can check that out at his own web site with the web link below.  In person, Bob's flawless flying fingers are matched only with his off the wall wit and wisdom.

Bob's many musical talents have recently extended to host of Regina's community radio station CJTR program called Six Strings and a Million Possibilities.  So what kind of guitar music does a master guitar player like Bob choose for a radio show?  Just about anything you can think of, but mostly extraordinary pieces by astounding musicians.  Bob has always been willing to share his musical gifts and knowledge, but now he has a larger audience for it.

Check out Bob's website.  He has lots of things in the guitar world to show you.