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I’ve been having a great time at this year’s GFA convention in Denver, CO. Many great concerts, vendor’s fair, meeting up with old friends and new, talking about soundboard and Lilypond to everyone who will listen!!

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The Charke/Cormier Duo will perform a concert of contemporary works at The Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance on June 4, 2016 at 8:00PM. The programme is as follows: Programme Toward the Sea (1981) – Toru Takemitsu I. The Night II. Moby Dick III. Cape Cod Wired & Released (2013) – Derek Charke II. And Musiques Populaires […]

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Derek and I will be performing a guitar/flute duo concert on Wednesday, Dec 9 2015 in the Manning Memorial Chapel on the Acadia campus.  We will be performing a varied recital including hits from: Piazzolla, Handel, Jacques Ibert, Villa-Lobos, and a world premiere from Derek Charke himself! An event not to be missing in a gorgeous […]

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I’ve been holding off making this announcement, but I’m going to go ahead and post it: I am now the musical engraver for the magazines “Soundboard” & “Soundboard Scholar”! A few years back I became a member of the Guitar Foundation of America and from that time forward I was thinking about how I could […]

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I’ve always been very serious about data safety. I’ve lost data more than once, and so when I moved into the linux world I searched high and low for a backup system that would suit me. At the time, not many options existed, but one that stood out was the rsync + cp with hard […]

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I’m quite busy practicing these days and I have a couple of exciting projects to share with you: 1. I’ve been working with our school’s composition/flute prof, Derek Charke, putting together a concert of Classical Guitar and Flute music. So far we’ve chosen to perform a set of pieces by Celso Machado, Histoire du Tango […]

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Exciting news: I’ve created a new program which randomly generates music theory/rudiments worksheets and corresponding answer keys. I’ve been working on this a few months and I’ve got most of the bugs worked out. To use the program itself you need to download the source and you have to have Python3 and lilypond installed on […]