Six String Nation - Softcover

Jowi Taylor is the Peabody Award–winning freelance writer, host and producer behind such CBC Radio projects as The Wire, The Nerve, Global Village and "Invisible Cities." The 2009 summer tour of the Six String Nation guitar will start in June with Luminato festival in Toronto. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

"Six String Nation, a marvelous and optimistic and quintessentially Canadian book." (Bill Richardson)

"Six String Nation is a reminder of the power and position of music in Canada today. Putting everything else aside, maybe it is music that holds this nation together, the magic of singing and playing that unites us: Acadians, Quebecois, Albertans, First Nations Peoples, Metis, Ontarians, men, women, professional musicians and amateur pickers alike." (Owen Sound Times)

"Jowi Taylor, a Toronto broadcaster...set out in 1995 to create an object more quintessentially Canadian then hockey, Tim Horton's doughnuts, insulin, the CN Tower and Lake Louise. Eleven years later, he was able to hold it in his hands -- an acoustic guitar made from 64 bits of Canadian history." (Vancouver Sun)

"Braiding the stories of the guitar, its pieces, and its fans makes for a powerful back story, a kind of magic that is positively galvanizing." (Boing Boing)

"The Voyageur was a true labour of love for this writer, radio host and producer, involving some science, some alchemy, and a whole lot of hard work. Six String Nation, the book chronicling the Voyageur (and Taylor's) journey from an initial idea to a very tangible reality, was published just over two months ago. It paints a vivid picture of Canada through stunning portraiture and insightful interviews with a wide range of people who contributed to the project, or who had the opportunity to try their hand at playing the Voyageur once it was finally finished." (Pique News Magazine)

"Collectively, these relics sound like the contents of a small and somewhat eccentric museum of Canadiana. And so they are -- except that this museum makes sweet music when it's strummed, because this repository of true-north iconography is an acoustic guitar.'" (Georgia Straight)

"People seem to love Taylor and his patriotic axe." (Times Colonist)

"The ongoing mission of Le Voyageur and the Six String Nation project is to encourage Canadians to tell the story of Canada from a multitude of perspectives, to know and embrace Canada's diversity as a kind of commonality and to celebrate the power of music." (Inside Toronto)