California State University is for the second year in a row holding their Guitarra Española course (part of Summer Arts) here in Granada. This year twenty-four students have come to study the guitar in a wonderful setting with guitarists of international repute. This morning classes were cancelled and the Granada Guitar-makers Association was asked to invite the guitar-makers to show their guitars to these students. This was, for all intents and purposes, the public presentation of the Association. The students were thrilled to have us come to them and to meet the people behind their favorite instrument.

The guitar-makers association is made up of a group of makers who wish to have Granada recognized as an international centre for guitar-making, support one another and to convince the different levels of government that the guitar in general and specifically this craft is worth promoting. For this reason we support Summer Arts and Vicente Coves and his Festival Internacional de la Guitarra de Granada. Not all guitar-makers in Granada are members of the association and the reasons include the following. Some are not full-time, professional makers, some sell guitars made by others instead of their own work, and others can’t see the benefit of working towards common goals. We hope to convince a larger number of makers as time goes on.