Jack Cooper - Guelph, ON Musician

In order to create a leadsheet for a musician, I require two things– a recording of the song and a lyric sheet.  If I am including fret diagrams, I sometimes need to get more information from the musician about the tuning used and some specific chord shapes.  A fret diagram is a fancy picture found [...]

I’ve been inspired recently by a friend in Kitchener named G.K. Eckert who recently created a blog site.  G.K., like many artists and teachers I know, knows the secret of success isn’t how talented or lucky or anything else you are, but how persistent you are and how receptive you are to new or existing [...]

Eaglewood Folk Festival is a little festival run in Pefferlaw, Ontario (on the south side of Lake Simcoe).  Eaglewood primarily features songwriters, although there are a few additional types of acts appearing each year.  This is the first time I’ve attended Eaglewood in about five years.  I had a couple of different reasons for going. [...]

I received an email from an old friend today whom I served with on committee for Kitchener-Waterloo’s Black Walnut folk club (quick answer Dan- I am actively working on it..)
The Black Walnut folk club is one of those rare initiatives that has made it into its second decade. I believe it has lasted fifteen [...]

I’ve decided to revamp my jack-cooper.com web site.  I debated whether or not to keep this site active, as I haven’t performed regularly for a few years and haven’t recorded anything for about eight years.  Yet I thought there might still be some worth in trying to document my past and present activities as an individual [...]

Like many musicians, I designed the initial pages of my website as a way of providing information about who I am, what I do, who I’ve been seen with, what’s been written about me and what I’ve produced.
I found, like many novice web designers, that keeping my pages current was excrutiatinly difficult. Part of [...]