I hope you all received my latest newsletter with the special offer on Journey Guitars. Take a look at their website and if your interested enter the code RETREAT10 to get a discount of 10%

They really are great instruments besides being very practical travel guitars.

I will try to post something up here every week for a while and see if it encourages you to do the same!

Strum on ;)

Stuart

Firstly I love the idea of small groups forming outside of the retreats consisting of ex retreaters and possibly outsiders too. As we all know getting together and playing with others is often the best way to improve many aspects of our playing. I will support these groups in any way I can with material, ideas for structure, format and content to create a fun, fulfilling experience for the participants. First of all I am offering two sets of GR songbooks to the first group gathering to send me a pic with themselves and some kind of reference to GR - evidence of GR stickers / mugs/ songbooks in.

Other ways to use the forum:

Share online content of guitar lessons, interviews, artists, gear etc

Tips and tricks you have discovered

Pics of your instruments

Advertise and Sell your gear for free

Gig reviews

Retreat reviews

Introduce yourself and your interests

Ideas for future retreats - genres/ content/ locations/ venues

POST SOMETHING TODAY!!!!!

Thanks for joining up, its early days but its good to see a number of you connecting, hopefully it will lead to more connections and collaborations in the months and years to come!? I have been pretty busy these last few months, developing The GR website and organising new events and venues for next year. I have also just come back from a two week trip to Jamaica! Home of the guitar chop riff, Ska, Reggae, Dub, Lovers Rock, Ragga etc... Very interesting and enlightening. I even got to hang out with some reggae musicians, some of whom had played with Reggae Royalty like Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals one of my all time fave reggae artists. Anyway enough of my travels. What I want to let you know is the next newsletter will be out in a day or two. I have published some new retreats on the website and you lucky GRSC members are the first to know! If you are interested in any of the events you can put down a deposit or simply put your name down now and I will save you a place until the new year. We have a new Beatles Secrets Retreat in April, An Americana Retreat in February both in our new venue in Swindon and the BIG NEWS - MOROCCO next November!!!! (should be on the website by end of the day). Check out the events page and you can read all about them there. More info will be in the newsletter too. Let me know in the comments what you think and if I've made any mistakes! Also let me know what you think of the forum and any ideas or improvements you would like to see made. Cheers for now, Stuart.