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2019 International Acoustic Music Award winner
Best Instrumental Song - Waiting for News

"This is a beautifully conceived project which integrates excellence all-around in composition, performance, design and recording."
- Alan Fark, Minor 7th (see full review)

"Finnigan is unquestionably highly technically proficient, but his beautiful music is also loaded with soul and invention."
- David Morrison, Folk Radio UK (see full review)

"A fixture on the acoustic guitar scene on the West Coast... He’s a master, and tunes such as Bowl O’ Cocobolo are just so uplifting that it’s great for the darker winter days."
- Stuart Derdeyn, The Vancouver Sun (see full review)

An entirely new audiophile recording featuring Les Finnigan's finest counterpoint compositions spanning the last 20 years.

Track Listing

1.    Snowflake Variations
2.    Waiting For News
3.  Box Of Gould
4.  Broken
5.    Portrait
6.  Race To The Shore
7.  Dreaming Arrangements
8.  Bowl O’ Cocobolo
9.  Lullaby For A Bunny
10.  What’s Your Point?
11.  What I Meant To Say
12.  Upstairs
13.  April’s Fool
14.  Kathleen Marie
15.  A Sense Of Pillow

All compositions by Les Finnigan
2018 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

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2018 Western Canadian Music Award Nomination
Instrumental Artist of the Year

2018 Independent Music Award Nomination
Best Instrumental Song - Double Crush

2017 International Acoustic Music Award Finalist
Best Instrumental Song - Double Crush

"Out in the Wild reveals more depth and nuance with repeated listenings and is a fine addition to Les Finnigan's musical catalogue."
- Patrick Ragains, Minor 7th (see full review)

"...world-class talent and tone." 5 out of 5 stars
- Marty Peters, Recording magazine (see full review)

Track Listing

1.    Neuromotion
2.  The Dominant Phrygian
3.  Box of Gould
4.    More or Less Happy
5.  Two-Faced Gunslinger
6.  Bald Cypress Blues
7.  What I Meant to Say
8.  Bungee Chord Substitution
9.  Bedtime for Night Owls
10. Sunrise Moon
11.  Double Crush

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2016 & 2016 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

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2014 Western Canadian Music Award Nomination
Instrumental Album of the Year

The Brave Dog - CD

1.    Race To The Shore
2.   Eleven And A Half
3.   Curious As A Raven
4.   Drawing Board And Fret Board
5.    Tip-Toeing Shadows
6.    March Of The Millipede
7.   An Entire Ocean
8.   A Basket Of Snakes
9.   A Change Of Colour
10. Lullaby For A Bunny
11. Coral Piece

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2013 & 2013 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

Live at the West Coast Guitar Night - Bonus DVD

1.   Alberico
2.   Kispiox
3.   Kathleen Marie
4.   Will And Testament
5.   March of the Millipede
6.   The Fairlane
      Excerpts From String-O-Vision
7.   The Woodcutter
8.   Palo Alto
9.   Kaleidoscope

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2011 & 2011 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

"Finnigan creates lovely melodies, never trying to prove anything by his playing, but allowing his songs to sink into the soul." - Kirk Albrecht, Minor 7th (see full review)

The Brave Dog album is Les Finnigan’s 7th CD (and 2nd DVD). It is a transparent and natural-sounding recording that lets the artistry of this guitarist and composer shine through vividly. The physical album includes the bonus DVD - Les Finnigan Live at the West Coast Guitar Night, a full live set filmed in high definition wide screen at the 13th annual West Coast Guitar Night. It features some of Les Finnigan’s more rhythmic pieces plus 3 bonus tracks from his previous DVD, String-O-Vision.

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"Finnigan's use of the tonal palette of his 6-string creates aural images that are at the same time warm and inviting, and dark and complex."
- Kirk Albrecht, Minor 7th (see full review)

"Finnigan has his own style, unusual for acoustic guitar instrumentalists. Not blues, classical, latin. Nor obviously influenced by John Fahey. His instrumentals seem spontaneous but well-considered and not simplistic."
- Tom Harrison, The Province

"This is also an exceptionally good-sounding record; even through crappy computer speakers it sounds like Finnigan and his instrument are right there in the room. Nice work."
- Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight (see full review)

Track Listing

1.    Milonga Mystery
2.    The Fairlane
3.    Waiting For News
4.    Magnetic Properties
5.    Three Perspectives
6.    Bowl O' Cocobolo
7.    Fret Buzz
8.    Dancing Around The Topic
9.    Dreaming Arrangements
10.  A Sense Of Pillow
11.  To The Last Minute
12.  Tord And Bobo

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2009 & 2009 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

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2007 Canadian Folk Music Award Nomination
Best Instrumentalist - Solo

Les Finnigan revisits his first album and records the definitive versions of these compositions to create this 10th Anniversary edition of "Things My Guitar Said".

"Les Finnigan, one jawdroppingly fine acoustic guitar player, is a regular busker at Granville Island. This is a re-recording of his first album from 1997 - he's made four more since - played with a decade's worth of woodshedding behind it."
- John P. McLaughlin, The Province

Track Listing

1.    I Caught the Key
2.    Bouncing Ball
3.    A One Week Trance
4.    Another Wasted Sunday
5.    Dave's Workshop
6.    What's Your Point?
7.    Finnigan's Jig
8.    Dish Mountain
9.    Hallow Evening
10.  Delta & Gromit
11.  Good as New
12.  Listening Train
13.  Antique Invention
14.  Ralph's Town
15.  Don't Leave Me Hanging

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©1997 & 2007 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

This live concert DVD was recorded on May 28, 2005 at the CD release concert for All Over the Map .

This DVD is a limited release and is only available for purchace at live shows.

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Les Finnigan goes about the business of entertaining with passion and intensity. His incandescent guitar work and meticulous compositions are offset by the driest wit in rainy Vancouver. An exciting performance captured in glorious String-O-Vision. 18 pieces professionally shot with four cameras at The Cultch Historic Theatre.

Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. The Sneaking Sloth
3. Tug and Boom
4. The Woodcutter
5. Okanagan Ashes
6. Wrong Turn
7. Spring Ahead
8. Palo Alto
9. Kathleen Marie
10. Intermission
11. Snowflake Variations
12. Tito Eggy
13. Kispiox
14. In the Shop
15. That's Not My Kilt
16. The Swinging Screen Door
17. A Mind of it's Own
18. Kaleidoscope
19. Chunks of Cheese
20. Telephone Lullaby

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2005 & 2005 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

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This is Les Finnigan's most dynamic album to date; an adventurous journey through a variety of moods and clearly stated themes, played with a perfect balance of precision and excitement.

"He's very good and, on his fifth indie release, just getting better and more inventive."
- John P. McLaughlin, The Province

Track Listing

1.    The Sneaking Sloth
2.    A Wrong Turn
3.    Kathleen Marie
4.    Tito Eggy
5.    Spring Ahead
6.    Snowflake Variations
7.    Will and Testament
8.    The Swinging Screen Door
9.    Kispiox
10.  A Mind of it's Own
11.  Okanagan Ashes
12.  That's Not My Kilt
13.  Kaleidoscope

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2005 & 2005 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

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2003 Western Canadian Music Award Nomination
Outstanding Instrumental Recording

"Once released from the constraints of standard guitar tuning a player with good ears and hands can make amazing music, something Vancouver guitarist Les Finnigan has clearly figured out. His fingers don't just play, they dance."
- John P. McLaughlin, The Province

Track Listing

1.    Palo Alto
2.    Chunks Of Cheese
3.    Sunderland
4.    Remembering
5.    Alberico
6.    Broken
7.    In The Shop
8.    Forgetting To Breathe
9.    Tug & Boom
10.  Letting Go
11.  The Island
12.  Swivelly Chair
13.  Telephone Lullaby
14.  Portrait

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2002 & 2002 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

This live album was recorded on September 22nd, 1999 at The Cultch Historic Theatre in Vancouver during the first annual West Coast Guitar Night.

This ablum is a limited release and is only available for purchace at live shows.

"There's nothing more naked than a guitar alone, and in this live recording from the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver-based picker Les Finnigan offers himself up unadorned. It's a brave move, and a successful one...Finnigan stands revealed as a gifted stylist and perhaps an even more talented composer."
- Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight

Track Listing

1.    What's your Point? (Duet With Edgar Avelino)
2.    Finnigan's Jig
3.    Kaleidoscope
4.    Bouncing Ball
5.    September Again
6.    Upstairs
7.    The Calling
8.    The Woodcutter
9.    Another Wasted Sunday
10.  Hallow Evening

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©2000 & 2000 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)

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This acoustic guitar album features some of Finnigan's most relaxing and meditative compositions, with the exception of the hit (two-handed tapping piece), "The Woodcutter".

"Finnigan's music is at times soothing, uplifting, exciting and melancholy."
- Corry Anderson-Fennel, The Now

"Finnigan specializes in pretty guitar tunes that could tame such savage beasts."
- Steve Newton, The Georgia Straight

Track Listing

1.    The Woodcutter
2.    Upstairs
3.    Maybe
4.    On The First of January/ A Few Days Later
5.    Time Alone
6.    September Again
7.    April's Fool
8.    Ann's Dream
9.    Little One
10.  The Calling
11.  After The Drought
12.  Up All Night

All compositions by Les Finnigan
©1999 & 1999 String Plunker Records (SOCAN)