Guitar Lessons - Extra Shows Added!

Due to a sold out shows last week GUITAR LESSONS returns to The Plaza for a further week! Grab your tickets early!

Leland Parenteau is a 15-year-old Native American boy, living in Northern Canada. After inheriting a broken guitar from a father he never knew, he sets about to find a teacher in the community, who can instruct him to play. Ray Mitchell is the local 50-year-old oilfield contractor. Ray is handsome and wealthy, with a weakness for women. It is well known among locals, that back-in-the-day, Ray was something of a rock star - but he went to the oil patch of Alberta and found success. He has not opened a guitar case since. When Leland approaches Ray to ask for guitar lessons, Ray quickly blows him off - but Leland doesn’t take no for an answer. Then one day Ray sees the
broken-down guitar Leland is carrying around and recognizes it immediately as one an old bandmate of his played. From there Ray starts taking an interest in the boy, and the guitar. When Leland withstands a beating rather than help some local thugs rob Ray’s garage of its vintage motorcycles, Ray’s investment in the boy increases. Encouraged by the few people close to him, Ray relents, and the guitar lessons commence. And a poor 15-year old Metis boy, and a rich 50-year-old colonizer, learn to grow up together… over guitar lessons.

Starring: Corb Lund, Conway Kootenay,
Roseanne Supernault, Kat Winter

Director: Aaron James

Filmed in High Level, Alberta

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