Mon, Jun 09
|Friendly Community Room
Group Guitar - Guitar 101
New to guitar? Join Friendly's in Oak Park! Develop essential guitar and musicianship skills in a lively group setting. Focus on notes, chords, and ear training to kickstart your musical journey!
Time & Location
Jun 09, 2025, 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM
Friendly Community Room, 6731 Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402, USA
About the event
The Friendly beginning guitar class brings people together who are new to the guitar to develop basic guitar and musicianship skills in a fun social setting.
The focus of the class is on understanding and playing single notes and basic open chords on the guitar. The class will also have some basic ear training, and understanding of musical concepts to help students understand and identify what they are playing and hearing.
Kevin Rush Bio: Kevin Rush is a guitarist and native Chicagoan living in the south suburbs. Kevin currently plays with the Gypsy Jazz group The New Deal, and with the original rock group The Stray Toasters. Kevin is featured on The Stray Toasters 4th and 5th records, Let Go My Ego and 5 Things as well as on LePercolateur’s debut record Pop Manouche.
Kevin began playing guitar at the age of 13. Influenced originally by rock and roll guitar greats, Beck, Page and Hendrix at an early age, he quickly became aware of other styles: classical with Andres Segovia, blues via the 3 Kings, and ultimately jazz with Django Reinhardt and Les Paul. Kevin played in various bands throughout High School and College and studied Classical Guitar and Music Theory at Roosevelt University in Chicago.