Blue Boy Guitars Canada
Handcrafted custom and cigar box instruments
ARTISTS
Performing artists that own Blue Boy instruments
THOMAS STARWALKER CLAIR (CBG's 13 and 46) Ottawa
Thomas is a multi talented Mi'kmaq artist from New Brunswick, currently residing in Ottawa. In
addition to being an urban blues writer/musician he is also a painter, traditional dancer, and an actor with
appearances in several Hollywood movies, as well as a character in the CBC series "Le Clan"
BRENT ROBITAILLE (CBG's 56, 58, 66, 79, & SOLID BODY #2) Penetanguishene
Brent is a professional musician and author well known as a music educator, composer/arranger, and owner of Kalymi Publishing. Brent is the creator of several books for cigar box guitar including: "The Ultimate Collection" "Celtic Connection" "Blues Overload" & "Technique Book." "Traditional Collection Series" for violin, mandolin, ukulele & guitar. He is also a well known music producer recording hundreds of arrangements and compositions with a number of artists and bands spanning a 30 year career.
CBG #56 is featured on the cover of Brent's book "Blues Overload"
as well as being used to record the tracks below.
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Hard to Do
Nashville Blues
CLARA ENGEL (inst. #122) (Toronto)
Clara Engel is an independent and prolific Toronto-based musician, songwriter, and visual artist whose genre-bending music
has been described as "experimental folk" and "minimalist holy blues from another galaxy"
https://claraengel.bandcamp.com
BARRY HOLMES (CBG's 42, 43, 53) of the band COLD SHOT (Sudbury)
STEPHEN TODD (CBG #30) of the band FAILTE (Kitchener)
LORNE CLIFFORD (#88 LPG #5) of the band RAGE & RUIN (Thunder Bay)
KEITH BESTWARD (CBG #22) of the band WILLOUGHBY CLAY (Stevensville)
MIKE VAIL (CBG #17) of the band STONE GROOVE (Ridgeway)
DAVE SCHAEFFER (CBG's 11 & 16) of the POP A CHUBBY GARAGE BAND (Fort Erie)
RALPH PHILLIPS (CBG #26) of the band RASPUTIN (Buffalo, NY)
PAUL RENAUD (CBG's 84, 86, 89, & #101) is a hired gun performing with several bands (Toronto)