The Acoustic Guitar Project

One Guitar. One Week. One Song. Five Songwriters.

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The Acoustic Guitar Project is a global music platform — and concert series — that inspires musicians to write an original song and record it live in one week.

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The Guitar Project takes place in 46 cities across the globe. This concert presents the work made by Vancouver's five songwriters:

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The Mission

• To inspire creativity by simplifying its process to the bare essentials

• To encourage a deeper connection between the artist and their art

• To tell truthful, meaningful stories

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One Guitar

We choose a city, and five local musicians, and provide them with an acoustic guitar and a simple recorder.

One Week

Each musician has one week to write an original song and record it live. No editing is allowed. Musicians also shoot a video describing their experience and/or song.

One Song

Each musician signs the guitar and takes picture with it. We upload their song, their picture and video to the site. Then, the guitar is passed on to the next artist in that city.

Concert Series

When all five musicians have completed their songs, there is a concert. During the performance, each musician plays the song they wrote for the project and tells the story behind it.