Terry Lees playing a brand new Willis OM guitar. The piece he is playing is Mrs McCloud's Reel.
Terry Lees has been playing the guitar since 1960. He has played major concerts supporting Fairport Convention, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy, Labi Siffrie, Lonnie Donegan and others as well as making television and radio appearances in his own right.
Terry is a well known performer on the folk circuit and has had many TV and radio performances as well as prominent festival shows and concerts. He also gives demonstrations and workshops.
In 1975 he came second to world class guitarist Adrian Legg in an international fingerpicking competition. In 1998 Terry was runner up in the ‘National Guitarist of the Year’ competition at Wembley Arena having been a finalist for two years running, finally becoming Guitarist of the Year in 2000.
Terry runs guitar workshops at folk festivals throughout the country. He plays any style but his heart is in Celtic and British traditional music. Terry can be contacted through his website, http://www.terrylees.com/.

I was at Spring Harvest at Skegness for three weeks at the beginning of the month and am now back home. While at SH I was realy moved by the painting that was created in the Big Top on week one. It was painted by Oliver Pengilley.

Friday is a special day, Bob Axford is coming to the workshop to collect his brand new OM guitar, we met at the Sidmouth folk week last year.
Bob chose Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides. and European Spruce for the top. The fretboard is ebony on a mahogany neck.

It realy is a small world, while I was talking with Gordon Giltrap at The Acoustic Guitar Show last September, Bob showed up with a huge grin on his face all ready to order his guitar and it turns out that they know each other from years back.

I am curently completing three new guitars to add to my show stock. They are, an OM cutaway in Brazilian rosewood, Lefthanded OM in Walnut and a CM in Indian Rosewood. In addition I will have the following guitars available to play and purchase at reduced prices, Classical in Rosewood, 000 in Indian rosewood, OM cutaway in Brazilian rosewood fitted with a Headway Snake3 pickup and a Parlour guitar in Cocobolo, shown above. All these guitars are priced under the regular custom price, email me for curent price and availablity of guitars. I am curently out of stock on mandolins but should have one at Towersey at the end of August.

Ok folks we are back in business, thanks Vron.