Colin Godbout is a global guitarist based in Victoria, B.C. 
He has toured across Canada and in U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Britain, Europe, and Japan.
Colin performs musical travelogues, musical portraits, and musical settings of poems. 
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MUSICAL TRAVELOGUES

Organic Music cultivates a garden of tonal organisms from a single note. 
Raga *  Solea *  Alegrias *  Blues *  Rhythm Changes *  Prelude *  Fantasia *  Fantasia2 * Theme & Variations * 
T&V2 *  T&V3 *  T&V4 *  Canon * Fugue *  Fugue2 *  Fugue3 *  Sonata *  Sonata2 *  Sonata3

Sonic Chakras: 7 Steps 2 Inner Harmony is a musical journey through human energy centers. RagaClip *
Roots Rock Raga  *  Sacral Raga  * Solar Plexus Soleares *  Heartbeatle * Throat * 3rd Eye * Corona

Modal Odyssey explores the effects of the seven musical modes on the human spirit.
Dorian: Maiden Voyage *  Greensleeves *  Fair * Jazzraga; Phrygian: Soleares * Winding Stair; Lydian: Raga;
Mixolydian: All Blues; Aeolian: Windmills; Locrian: Gnossienne * 5 O'Clock Bells; Ionian: Hymn to Freedom

Elemental Journey is a musical evocation of earth, water, air, and fire.
Earth: Feilds of Gold *  Nothing Gold Can Stay *  Morning Dew *  Paved Paradise * Woodstock
Water: Rain Music *  Agua * Double Rainbow *  Over Air: Clouds *  Sky *  Wind Fire: Icarus *  Light

TransCanada ‘69: a Musical Trip to a Magical Time
TransCanada '69 *  Guests *  Suzanne * God is Alive *  Freedom *  Lightfoot *  North *  Woodstock * Love
"It’s easy to get lost in the beauty of Godbout’s virtuosic classical/jazz guitar playing, as he reinterprets
songs by Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Oscar Peterson, Lenny Breau, and Neil Young.
A loving homage to homegrown talent and a way to hear the past with fresh ears."
Kathleen Oliver, Georgia Straight, Vancouver
"Let yourself sink into the spell woven by Godbout’s technical prowess and emotional intensity
and relish the songs of hope and change that still echo so poignantly today."
Sue Karp, Vue Weekly, Edmonton
"Guitar virtuoso Colin Godbout can produce an entire rhythm section from a single six-stringed instrument.
You’ll spend the hour listening to gorgeous, jazz-infused renderings of Canada’s musical landscape."
Carolin Vesely, Winnipeg Free Press
"Godbout is a brilliant guitarist and musical interpreter.  In his hands the guitar becomes a whole rhythm section.
His interpretation of works by Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Tyson and Neil Young were nuanced and beautiful." 
Jory Brophy, The Gate: Toronto Entertainment Magazine

Route 66: an American Guitar Trek winds from sweet home Chicago beyond Metheny’s Missouri sky
to Springsteen’s ode to migrant Okies, Liebert’s New Mexican nuevo flamenco, and a Californian surfari.
Chicago * Have You Heard *  Midwest Dream *  Travels *  Train *  Minuano *  Ghost of TJ *  Surf Version * 
Dust in the Wind *  Samba pa ti *  Horse * McGhee *  Hotel *  Pipeline * Miserlou * Ghost Riders

Around the World in 40 Songs: a Global Guitar Trek crosses five continents on six strings.
Sakura * Dark Eyes *  Happy Land * Czardas * Rhap * Lomond * Londonderry *  Paris *  April * Wimoweh *
Condor *  Maya Danza * CubaDia * Peanut Vendor * Celito Lindo *  Scherzo * Freedom *  Wonderworld

Music on the Orient Express: a Melodic Whodunit ventures from Paris to Istanbul in search of
the greatest melody ever written.
Pink Panther * Clair de Lune * Pavan * Gymnopedie *  Meditation * Traumerei *  B's 5th *  B's 3rd * 
Vals * Liebestraum #3 * Turkish Rondo

Spanish Guitar Trek surveys four centuries of Spanish guitar music.
Sanz *  Sevillanas * Fantasia *  Malaguena *  Torija *  Ravel's Pavan & Bolero *  Aranjuez *  Spain

Mediterranean Guitar Trek samples music from North Africa to the Middle East and Southern Europe.
Tunisia *  Afro1 *  Afro2 *  Danza Arabia *  Danza Mora * Blue Rondo *  Zorba *  Paradiso *  Tango *  Sundance

Brazilian EcoMusical is a soundtrack to Colin’s ecotour of Brazil.
Berimbau *  Berimbau2 * Passarim *  Aviao *  Aviao2 *  Orfeo *  Stone *  Rainbow *  G's Oboe *  Bells *  Green

MUSICAL BIOGRAPHIES

2 to Django is a gypsy jazz journey into the life of guitarist Django Reinhardt, from the caravan fire
that burned his fingers to occupied Paris, where he fell in love and rose to stardom. DjangoClip *
Caravan * Nuages *  Castle *  2 to Django * I Love Paris * Sentimood *  World on a String *  Gutstring
"Godbout's playing is blazing good, shot through with passion and very brave."
Charles Tidler, Plank Magazine, Victoria

Last Gig of Lenny Breau dramatizes the Canadian guitar legend’s last performance before his murder.
LennyClip *  Lenny Overture * Reverie * 5 O'Clock Bells *  Toronto *  Jazzraga
“Godbout is a virtuosic musician, adept at complex fretwork and dazzling fingerpicking.
He plays everything from classical to flamenco to jazz, and it's all luxuriously listenable...it's pure pleasure.”
Kathleen Oliver, Georgia Straight, Vancouver

Crossroad Blues is a musical drama of an ex-con's encounter with a mysterious man who offers him
supernatural skill in exchange for his soul.  With songs by Johnson, Hendrix, Clapton, and Dylan.  CrossroadClip *
Folsom *  Midnight Special *  Parchman * Man * Crossroads *  Train *  Sorrow *  Nobody's Fault * Soul * 
Move * Grace *  Serve * Saved * Baloney * Messiah *  Stairway *  Tears *  Presence *  Ready * Somewhere *

Viva Tarrega is a journey into the life and music of revolutionary guitarist Francisco Tarrega.  Through his compositions, transcriptions, and performances Tarrega brought the guitar from cafes to concert halls.
Nokia Tune *  Music Box *  Lagrima *  Marietta *  Prelude in E *  Sueno *  Alhambra *  Capricho Arabe

Beethoven’s Blues
The maestro’s plan to woo his muse with a Faust Symphony backfires. 
So he rolls over, exchanging orchestral strings for guitar strings.  And why not?  He did call the guitar
“a miniature orchestra” and you’ll agree after hearing Colin’s take on Beethoven classics.
Moonlight * Emperor #2 * 5th, #1 * 7th, #2 * Judgement of Moon & Stars
"Come and be spellbound by a man who makes one guitar sound as rich as an orchestra."
Sue Karp, Vue Weekly, Edmonton

Unplugged Cop features solo guitar arrangements of fifteen songs by Sting and The Police.
Fragile *   Feilds of Gold

MUSICAL SETTINGS OF POEMS

Songs from Poets' Corner features musical settings of poems by poets commemorated in London's Westminster Abbey. 
Poet's Eye  * Diapason *  Blakean Bard  * Dancing Heart * Leaping Heart * Kubla Khan  * 
Margaret * Do Not Go Gentle * World, Life, & Time

Romantic Muse explores inspiration in musical settings of poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge. 
Dancing Heart *  Leaping Heart *  Reaper *  Lucy Gray *  Gymnopedie *  Lucy's Grave * Corals

Baroque Muse explores inspiration in musical settings of Baroque poems. 
Vivaldi1 * Vivaldi2 *  Diapason *  Nativity *  Hymn *  Resurrection *  Jesu *  Cadence * Troubled

Bardic Blake
Like ancient bards English poet William Blake sang his visionary verses. 
Though his melodies were lost to posterity Colin recreates the bardic Blake with musical settings of his lyrics.
Golden Cage *  Jerusalem *  World in a Grain of Sand

Seasons in Song is a musical celebration of the seasonal cycle as an analogy of the rhythms of human life.
Human Seasons *  Rain Music *  Margaret *  Autumn *  Retreat *  Do Not Go Gentle *  World, Life, & Time