July 31 - August 3, 2009
Season five is 'finally' underway.
Join us for the best three days you are likely to spend all year.
Three days of concerts, clinics, open stages, swimming, camping, eating, and campfire jams.
Take away with you many friendships and memories sure to stay with you for a lifetime...
See you at the lake.
Don Alder
Erik Mongrain
Gregory Hoskins
Antoine Dufour
Kelly Valleau
Michael Manring
Gareth Pearson
Emily Fennell
Ray Montford
Sébastien Cloutier
Richard Smith
The String Gents
Tommy Gauthier
and Holmes Hooke
Master of Ceremonies
We are accepting applications for the Canadian Guitar Festival Competition now... just send us your request and we will be in touch!
What's New
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July 1, 2009
Happy Canada Day!
COGECO Video on Demand is now featuring 6 performances from previous Canadian Guitar Festivals. Anyone with a digital box all across Ontario in COGECO cabled areas can access this feature. Simply go to channel 299, click on TVCOGECO and you'll see a Canadian Guitar Festival button. These programs are free and can be stopped, paused and rewound. These programs began running on channel 13 last week as well.
May 3, 2009
Again this year we are very pleased to announce a special fund raising initiative on behalf of Hospital Atilan in Guatemala. An huge thank you to partner Washburn Guitars for their generous donation of three rover guitars in support of this humanitarian effort. All draw tickets sold offer three chances to win with all the proceeds going to the hospital.
April 28, 2009
We have added a new menu item featuring selected performances from previous Festivals. Enjoy!
April 22, 2009
Download the .pdf version of the schedule: festival_sched.pdf
March 27, 2009
Welcome to the 5th season of the Canadian Guitar Festival. We have put together a lineup of some of the greatest guitarists from around the world.
Our holiday location on beautiful Loughborough Lake Holiday Park cannot be beat; we offer plenty to do for the entire family.
All Credit Card or Paypal payments are processed through PayPal's secure payment system. Enjoy the fun. Enjoy the sun. Enjoy the music.
How to Get Here
Loughborough Lake Holiday Park is located just north of Kingston,via Sydenham Road (8 Km North of Hwy 401 at Exit #613), on a pristine, spring fed, 23 mile long lake loaded with lake trout, bass, pike, & pan fish!
Below is the highway map to the Loughborough Lake Holiday Park entrance. Here is an interactive Google highway map (link opens in a new window).
Here is an overhead view of the site layout:
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