Holiday Gift Guide 2020

Singer-songwriter and Jitters frontman Blair Packham joined us for our latest annual Holiday Gift Guide. We talked about gift suggestions in every price range. Happy shopping for the musician in your life, for yourself, or for your favourite songwriting podcast host (hint: that’s Neel).

Thanks to our listeners Don Thomspon, Lorenzo D. Policelli, and Matt Oshin for their suggestions.

Stocking Stuffers: Gifts under $15

• Musical Playing Cards
• Contribute to your favourite artist’s crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo or other site
• Guitar Picks, clamp-style Capo + Accessories
• Cakewalk by Bandlab, free professional digital audio workstation software for Windows (Neel’s DAW of choice)
• Buy an artist’s album on Bandcamp
• ChordBot app

Small gifts: $15 to $100

• Snark Guitar Tuner
• Research online songwriting or audio production lessons in specific genre/instrument played – purchase for year
• Spotify or Tidal Subscription for the year
• Framed album art of a musician friend’s favorite record
• Major Scale Musical Wine Glasses
• Music Connects People T-shirt
• Guitar Pick Puncher
• AmazonBasics SOS Guitar Loop Pedal
• IRONX Guitar Coffee Spoons 18/8 Stainless Steel Guitar Teaspoons Pack of 6 (Silver)
• FiiO A1 Portable Headphone Amplifier
• Sony ECMCS3 Clip style Omnidirectional Stereo Microphone, Silver
• Ernie Ball Musician’s Tool Kit
• Jimmy Page: The Anthology
• Mukikim Rock And Roll It SpecDrum Flexible Roll Up Drum Kit
• EverPlus Bluetooth Hat, Wireless Headphone Beanie
• OnSong set list/lyrics/songwriting app
• Tune-In, the first volume of the comprehensive Beatles biography by Mark Lewisohn
• Kitchen Music Studios, Quality Music Instruction in Toronto
• Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator synth modules

Good Gifts: $100 to $300

• Guitar or Piano toilet seat lids
• Smart Ukelele
• A Masterclass subscription for one year
• Electric guitars from 12th Fret
• Acoustic guitars from Simon & Patrick or Seagull at Long & McQaude
• VOX V9106 Pathfinder Guitar Combo Amplifier, 10-Watts, 6.5” speaker
• A guitar kit from SOLO Guitars in Vaughan, ON. Les Paul-style, Fender Jazzmaster/Jaguar-style, Telecaster-style…even acoustic guitar kits, starting at $150 and going up above $1000
• Focusrite SCARLETT-SOLO-3RD-GEN USB Audio Interface
• Roadie Tuner 3 automatic tuner

WOW! Gifts – $300 or more

(the, gee if I only had a super-generous someone who had money to burn gifts)

• ROLI Seaboard Rise keyboard controllers
• Native Instruments KOMPLETE 13
• Time with a professional audio engineer at a local studio
• Sennheiser HD650 or HD600 Headphones with Headphone Amp – high fidelity headphones
• Studio Monitors for listening critically to music
• Focusrite SCARLETT-4I4-3RD-GEN 4 In/4 Out USB Interface
• 1966 Fender Telecaster
• 1951 Gibson SJ-200