Jowi Taylor
President, Six String Nation

Jowi Taylor is the host of the long-running and multiple award-winning CBC
Radio programme Global Village. He is also the host, writer, co-creator and co-
producer of CBC Radio’s “The Wire”, which won the 2005 Peabody Award, the
2005 Prix Italia and the 2005 Director’s Choice Award at the Third Coast Audio
Festival in Chicago.

Six String Nation is the product of 11 years of work (so far) and neatly combines
Jowi’s fascination with Canada’s multiple identities, multimedia projects and a
multitude of musics.

George Rizsanyi
Master Luthier

George Rizsanyi arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax at the age of 2 in 1956 with his
parents George and Elizabeth, who were fleeing the Soviet crackdown of the
Hungarian Revolution.

He built his first guitar in 1976. As he honed his craft, Rizsanyi soon developed
his own style marked by a rich, full-bodied sound with great playability and sound
projection.

George Rizsanyi’s client list includes such eminent players as Keith Richards,
Sting, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Rick Fines, Willie P. Bennett, the late Noel
Redding and even actor Donald Sutherland.

After many years in Ontario, Rizsanyi now lives and works in rural Nova Scotia.

Rizsanyi Guitars

Sara Nasr
Inlay / luthier's assistant

Sara was born in Nova Scotia but first made her musical mark with her sister Kamila as part of the thriving scene in St. John's Newfoundland. Recently, she's been living in Toronto studying art history and music at York University. A previous student in George Rizsanyi's school of luthiery, she spent 8 days in May-June of 2006 doing the inlay work on the fretboard and headstock of the Six String Nation guitar.

Executive Advisory

Laurie Brown
Gordon MacLeod
Lisa Whynot

Producing Partners (Vice Presidents)

Eric Birnberg & Thomas Walden, Behind the Scenes Services Inc.
Blaine Philippi & Bob Stamp, f8inc

Honourary Patrons

William Boyle
Charles Coffey
Margaret Dryden
Richard Flohil
Camelia Frieberg
Al Mattes
Vice Admiral Duncan Miller
David Neale
Michael Ondaatje
Buffy Ste.-Marie
Bob Rae
Donald Sutherland
Veronica Tennant

Not-for-Profit Advisory Board

Laurie Brown
Catharine Saxberg
Jennifer Stein
Lisa Whynot

Marketing & Communications

HKC Marketing
Tall Poppy Design

Gabriel Dube (Francophone Media liaison)

Videography

Douglas Munro C.S.C. and Margot McMaster, HDTV Productions
Geoff Siskind

Nick Chevrefils
Jason Delasoy
Dave Dunk
Nasir Farooqi
Dave Gaudet
Drew Gauley
Joe Kelly
Doug Kerr
Gary Mansfield
Kent Nason
Darren Olson
Evelyn Pollock
Bryan Rogers
Jeff Tranchemontagne

Photography

Sandor Fizli
Doug Nicholson

Six String Nation Logo Design by

Darren Wilson

Display

Anne-Marie Roe, Gary Myers, BaAM Productions

Web Services

Laura Weatherbie, Rod Weatherbie, Jason Alward, Adrienne D'Amico and Danielle Benacquista (Tall Poppy)

Nick Ursa

Dafydd Hughes

Research

Christine Atkins
Garvia Bailey
Sid Bobb
Patrice Mousseau
Jeff Overmars
Bryan Rogers
Brian Wright-McLeod

Travel and Festival Coordination

Susan Vandendam
Christine Atkins

Podcast Producers

Tod Maffin (for the FourSevens Network)
Mark Blevis
Matthew Pemberton

Finance, Accounting and Bookkeeping

Michael Meredith, Royal Bank of Canada (Knowledge Based Industries Group)
Thomas Walden (Behind the Scenes Services)
Holly Dennison