SHABATZ GUITAR DUO consists of former professor and student, Marko Erdevicki and Stevan Jovic. The duo is dedicated to performing original compositions and arrangements for two guitars from the first half of the 19th century on historical instruments. In the video you can see Stevan playing my Antonio de Lorca copy.
Some very fine company indeed when I attended the opening of the Torres exhibition in Córdoba in 2007. One of my Torres copies was on display there.
If you are a fan of guitar photos you will know that they are very hard to take well. Furthermore, the label of a guitar does not jump out at you in real life nor in a photo. I am always very pleased when a guitarist makes the effort to do that with my guitar. 
Now, the point of this post is to celebrate generous gestures by musicians to help make this time a little more pleasant. Here is Maria José Tirado with a video.
Javier Riba has done more for my art than anyone ever could and was the first one to make sure that my name was front and centre on his cd. 
His video offering in this time of confinement is with his son and makes us remember that this time can be very much taken advantage of. Piazolla with Javier’s son Ángel.
Last but surely not least is Fernando Espí whose gift is in the form of sheet music, just see his facebook post of March 16 for details. 
Here is a little video he recorded before this all started.
The Tampere Guitar Festival is coming up again in June and I like to remember my experience there in 2006. I was invited to do a weeklong workshop on guitar-making in Granada. 
The experience and the people were great. In this photo you can see all of the teachers: Aliéksey Vianna, myself, Àlex Garrobé, Lorenzo Micheli and Enrico Bronzi. I guess it is obvious what they were teaching. 
Midnight canoe rides were fun too with some great sunsets. My students were guitar-making students at the nearby Ikaalinen institute. For a few years the organizers hosted a luthier’s exhibition but I never participated. Actually I think they started that the year after I was there. The teachers and players invited to this event have always been top-notch and it has really become a reference festival.
I don’t know how I missed this but it is certainly a reason for celebration. Something is finally happening is Spain even if it is limited to Almeria. Duh! The guitar is actually important to Spain! Her history, her people, her economy and of course her culture. See the story in spanish here.