"Definitely at the top of my list for acoustic guitar wizards." -- Kerry Clarke, Calgary Folk Music Festival A former motorcycle racer and pro photographer who didn't get serious about playing guitar till the tender age of 31, Art Turner certainly hasn't wasted any time turning the world on its ear. In the past few years he has been featured in the popular American magazines Guitar Player and Fingerstyle Guitar, included in the all-star Canadian guitar compilation Six Strings North of the Border Volume II, nominated for both WCMA and Prairie Music Awards, won a rare Formal Showcase at the North American Folk Alliance, made CBC Disc Drive host Jurgen Gothe's Hit List of Best Albums of the Year, released four critically-acclaimed, self-produced albums featuring collaborations with some of North America's most sought-after instrumentalists, and performed from Dawson City to Denver, from Prince Edward Island to Vancouver Island, sharing stages with some of the world's best players. A fixture on CBC Radio and the folk festival circuit, Art's unique brand of percussive, hauntingly emotive "aboriginoceltic fingerstyle worldfolk" has been called "feverishly bright and achingly beautiful" (Dirty Linen); "big, bold, atmospheric, percussive, lyrical, full-frontal, tranquil, meditative, and incendiary" (Jurgen Gothe); and "beautiful... with all the polish in the world without the sterilization that often happens when polish outshines emotion" (William Ackerman, Grammy-winning guitarist). His fourth album, Sonora, is his most impressive effort to date, and heralds the return of violinist Hugh Marsh (Bruce Cockburn, Loreena McKennitt, DaVinci Code soundtrack), and fretless bass wizard Michael Manring (John Gorka, Michael Hedges). Art Turner lives in Winnipeg, Canada with his wife Carolyn and a varying number of cats, guitars and canoes. *** ATTN: MEDIA: CLICK ON EITHER IMAGE ABOVE FOR PRINTABLE HI-RES DOWNLOAD. *** Art Turner has played... € The Winnipeg Folk Festival (2000, 2001, 2004) € Ottawa Folk Festival (2004) € Canterbury Folk Festival (2005) € The Dawson City Music Festival (2006) € Rootsfest, Victoria (2001) € Swallow Hill, Denver, Colorado (w/Cheryl Wheeler) € Hugh's Room, Toronto € George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts € Acoustic Waves Series, Great Canadian Theatre, Ottawa (w/Kelly Joe Phelps) € Orangeville Opera House (w/Stephen Fearing) € Vital Spark Folk Club (w/Stephen Fearing) € Live Wire Concert Series (w/the Burns Sisters) € Brantford Folk Club (w/Garnet Rogers) € The West End Cultural Centre (2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004, w/Bill Bourne, Kelly Joe Phelps, Tim Sparks, and Colin Linden € Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg (2005 Juno Awards press conference)   As an official showcase artist at: € The North American Folk Alliance (2001) € Ontario Council of Folk Festivals/Folk Alliance Canada Conference (2001) € Ontario CONTACT (Ontario Arts Council 2001)   CONTACT: C/O Redtail Records (204) 774-9052. e: redtail@mts.net. web: www.artturner.com Art Turner is an official endorsee of John Pearse Strings, B-Band Pickup Systems, and the beautiful, innovative G7th capo. His CDs are distributed by Festival Distribution (www.festival.bc.ca).