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Dates: Friday June 3 through Sunday June 5th 2016 Featuring: Jason Vieux Petra Polácková Solo Duo Ricardo Gallen Colin Davin Nigel North Joshia de Jonge Find out full details here: https://www.guitarsint.com/guitar_festival
After being stunned by the gorgeous performance of Fred Hand at the 92Y in New York, I felt the need to share his music. It speaks for itself:
In his book “Classical Guitarists: Conversations”, author Jim Tosone had the visionary idea of interviewing the most important classical guitar artist manager in history: Harold Shaw. Anyone familiar with the names Julian Bream, John...
In a world where it is increasingly difficult to conduct a sustainable life as a classical guitarist, any good news are a matter of celebration. Fortunately, 2015 provides many reasons to look at the...
by Harold Gretton Article 2: What are primary sources and do we need them? The following is a brief summary of historically inspired performance (HIP) and issues arising from HIP, conceived for guitarists who...
Some years ago, during a conversation with one of the most influential classical music managers in the world, the words “Andres Segovia” were uttered. The manager’s response: “Who is that?” This would not have...
We have all heard it: “I’ll invite you to my festival if you invite me to yours”. Is this a good idea? Some guitar administrators have an addition, and their addiction is hurting the makeup of the profession as a whole. Read more here.
by Harold Gretton Introduction: The purpose of the following series of articles is to give guitarists of all calibers a brief introduction to Historically Inspired Performance (HIP). The present dissertation retains the practice established...
“My name is “Guitar Collector”. I might perform in the local guitar orchestra or attend the concerts that the Guitar Society of my locality presents. I buy the CD’s, I buy the season pass,...
This really is an incredible story, so much so that I thought we could leave our plucking for a moment to listen to a different kind of sound.
