Calgary woman shocked to see Tracy Chapman playing her guitar at the Grammys

Calgary woman shocked to see Tracy Chapman playing her guitar at the Grammys

Music has always been a passion for Judy Threet but it wasn’t until the former philosophy professor starting making instruments that her talent hit a high note, with the fruits of her labour making a Grammys debut. While teaching at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University, she joined a local folk band. That’s … Read more

Top 20 greatest guitar riffs of all time – Sweet Child o’ Mine tops the list | Music | Entertainment

Top 20 greatest guitar riffs of all time – Sweet Child o’ Mine tops the list | Music | Entertainment

“Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns n’ Roses has the best guitar riff of all time – more than 35 years after it was released, a study has found. A poll of 2,000 music fans saw Prince’s “Purple Rain” voted in second place, with “Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits taking third. Among the more … Read more

Andy Summers: Hall of Fame Police Guitarist and Talented Photographer

Andy Summers: Hall of Fame Police Guitarist and Talented Photographer

Andy Summers is best known as a guitarist for the English rock band The Police, popular in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. But he has also been a passionate and award-winning photographer from the film days through the digital transition to today. Summers has published five books on his photography, the latest from teNeues … Read more