Córdoba Guitar Festival

A trip to Córdoba this week was an opportunity to fill a few outstanding holes in my education, my collections and even offered a few new experiences. As a friend of mine says, this sort of headline is usually reserved for the likes of Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. It translates as: “Parties, suicide, flamenco venues and restorations: the history of the guitar belonging to Julio Romero de Torres.” The occasion was my participation in the decades-long series of conferences about famous figures in the guitar world. My contribution to this year’s event was a lecture about the guitar used by the spanish painter Julio Romero de Torres in his paintings. Read the sensationalist newspaper article here in spanish.