I think this is the first time that this venue has been used for the guitar festival and I hope it is not the last. La Chumbera is a small auditorium in the Sacromonte part of Granada with a huge window behind the stage giving views of the city, the Alhambra and the multi-hued sky as night falls. The choice of who should play there must have been easy to make. Margarita Escarpa always treats us to something new and challenging. My wife has accompanied me to many guitar concerts and often finds the programmes very unoriginal and dislikes hearing the same pieces from one concert to the next. Last night we were thrilled to hear Gismonti, Dyens, Schwartz, and Piazzolla among others. Once again I would like to celebrate the way Margarita brings the music closer to the audience through her passion and the exquisite way she wraps each piece with a combination of its history and her own relationship to it.