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.