Anyone who’s worried that the guitar is on its way out as an instrument of innovation should mark the Sleepwalk Guitar Festival on their calendar. Taking over the Great Hall from November 4 to 6, the festival uses workshops, clinics, interviews and performances to prove the old six-stringer still has plenty to add to the contemporary music sphere. For its first year, Sleepwalk organizers hand curator duties to renowned Canadian axe-slinger Luke Doucet, and he’s delivered an impressive list of guitar heroes young and old, including Television legend Richard Lloyd, Dinosaur Jr volume-abuser J Mascis and local rockabilly lifers the Sadies.
