Pickers can learn from an expert in guitar workshop

Guitar players looking to hone their craft will have a special opportunity over the next few weeks.

Thompson Guitars is presenting a series of workshops with local musician, composer, performer and teacher Bill Hayes, at Sisters Coffee Co. on Saturday evenings, January 26, February 2, and February 9. Each workshop begins at 7 p.m. and there is a $20 suggested donation.

"You can stop, start, come to any of them," said Dan Stewart, representing Thompson Guitars. The company is a one-man custom-guitar-making operation out of Bend. For more information visit www.pkthompsonguitars.com.

Hayes will focus on chord progressions and the pentatonic scale. The workshops are "bring your own guitar."

"It'll be fun for the community and it'll be a neat deal for guitar people who like that kind of fun," says Stewart.