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Future Students
Education Edward Yourk began private guitar lessons at the age of 9 with Al Kutz in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. He has also studied with 4 time East Coast Music Award guitarist, Mo Brown and classical guitarist Ralph Meyer at Mount Royal College in Calgary Alberta. From 1980 - 90 he studied Music Business, Film Making, TV Broadcasting, Copywriting for Radio and Television Advertising at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, where he also trained in audio engineering and producing in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Background Ed's great interest in roots music of the Canadian Prairies has led to working as a teacher/performer at the British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop and most recently at the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society’s yearly workshop that included great professional players from Canada and the USA including the Bluegrass Historian’s Wayne Erbsen and Laurie Lewis. Traditional acoustic music has a huge potential for bridging the age and style gap in contemporary Christian Church services. In this light bluegrass music has become a major area of his personal research and development. He expresses his personal vision statement: "Spilling out my life for Christ's sake and the furtherance of the gospel using this instrument of my life-long passion is like a dream come true.”
Involvement at Prairie Teaching private applied lessons is presently Ed’s main involvement on campus. The joy and crown of Ed's life is his wife Jennifer and his three children Bonnie (now married to Brent Bylsma), Amber-Lynn and Jason. He performs in concerts and music festivals throughout Alberta. Unearthing roots bluegrass songs from the 1930's through the 1960’s and transcribing them for performance is a main source of repertory for Prairie's Bluegrass Ensemble, which he directs His involvement with the recently formed vintage bluegrass band "Blue Grass Orphans," with his daughter Amber-Lynn and Paula Spurr, has provided a great source of extra-curricular and community involvement, as well as an opportunity to fulfill his performance dreams. Courses MU 187 - 488 Private Guitar
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