Hyvää päivää To All Visitors from Finland

We couldn't figure out where the sudden burst in traffic from Finland originated until a lady wrote to tell us that the Canadian version of Dragon's Den airs in your country. Thank you for visiting. As you probably know we only sell our guitars over the Internet so it may be a bit tough catering to our Finnish friends. Perhaps someone knows (or is) a distributor who would like to partner with us for your market. Drop us a line via our contact form.

Where the Deals Hide

Submitted by JohnMarr on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 13:34

Occasionally we get a bit goofy and offer a one hour or one day sale on one of our guitar models.
The only way to catch theses deals is to "like" MacKenzie & Marr on Facebook because that's where we announce them so why not click here, hit the "Like" button and be prepared to save some loot?

Tom Rush Playing the Naked Lady

Submitted by JohnMarr on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 11:57

It's not often we get great video of great performers handed to us so when it happens we're always grateful. As part of the promotion for a new documentary on the famous Club 47 in Cambridge Mass the Boston television station WCVB broadcast a four part segment about "For the Love of the Music; The Club 47 Folk Revival"
Here's two videos of Tom Rush playing the Naked Lady live (the performance is live, not the lady. She's simply in-laid)

The Tom Rush Naked Lady Acoustic Guitar

Tom Rush's famous acoustic guitar - the Naked Lady Reincarnation

Our newest limited edition guitar - the Naked Lady, is now available for late spring delivery.

Designed in conjunction with Tom Rush, one of North America's great folk/roots legends it is destined to take its place among the iconic acoustic guitars of the last 100 years.

Only 250 will be produced with each guitar bearing a sequential serial number identifying the instrument as one of a unique limited collector's series. (i.e. #50 of 250).

$1,999.99

The Naked Lady is also available with no inlay of any kind on the fretboard

The Dragon's Den Update

Tofino, Dionisio and the Ina Tyson Limited Edition acoustic guitars

On November 2nd, 2011 and again on Feb 15th 2012 the CBC program Dragon's Den aired an update of the original January 2010 MacKenzie & Marr Guitars episode in which John Marr and Jonathan MacKenzie presented their idea of importing and selling hand crafted guitars over the Internet. Kevin O'Leary, Jim Treleving and W. Brett Wilson invested in the company and 18 hours after the show aired MacKenzie & Marr Guitars was sold out of stock.

The New Tofino

Submitted by JohnMarr on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 14:02

The minute the first cedar-top solid wood acoustic Tofino guitar was unwrapped – before tuning it and before playing it - I knew we had a winner. The guitar was pristine. So was the second, the third and so on. Not one guitar we examined had the slightest flaw. The factory had outdone themselves.

Can you tell the difference between a $1000 Mackenzie & Marr guitar and $3000 Martin?

Submitted by JohnMarr on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:29
the MacKenzie & Marr blindfold test - can you pick the expensive gutar?

Join us at the Montreal Folk Festival (June 18th and 19th) on the Terrase St-Ambroise - 5080 St-Ambroise Montreal, QC H4C 2G1. Play our guitars and compare them to much more expensive Taylor and Martin models. Can you tell the difference wearing a blindfold? Kevin O'Leary of Dragon's Den couldn't.

We'll have a free set of D'Addario EXP strings for everyone who participates and who knows? You may end up as a YouTube "star" We'll be shooting video.

One Year Ago - MacKenzie & Marr Guitars On Dragon's Den January 2010

In May of 2010 Jonathan and I traveled to Toronto to tape an episode of the CBC hit program "Dragon's Den". We'd developed a cedar top guitar that we though was a pretty amazing instrument. If we could convince the hard nosed business men (and woman) that we had a product and business worthy of investment we would launch MacKenzie & Marr Guitars. To say the day - from the time we arrived at 8 AM until we went before the Dragons a bit after 4 in the afternoon - was surreal would be an understatement. Keeping silent about the outcome for the next 8 months was a struggle.

Kevin O'Leary playing the MacKenzie & Marr Tofino

Blue Moon and Navajo Rug - more from the Lee Worden Session

With Lee pressed for time (he and Gord Maxwell, Ian's bass player had to get back to Hugh's Room for a sound check) we were lucky to get some pretty good sound on the first take. Lee's demo of the percussive nature of an Ian Tyson tune is great.

Lee Worden Playing Slide on the MacKenzie & Marr Ian Tyson Ltd.

One more short video. This time Lee demonstrates that you don't need to be in open tuning to make silde guitar sound sexy.

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