An excellent concert Sunday night in Granada, don’t miss him if you get a chance.  I spoke to a few friends about this concert beforehand and they were reticent about spending an hour or two with “just a guitar and classical at that”.  Well, they would have loved it, not only is Dukić a great guitarist but also very comfortable on stage, engages the audience and had something interesting to say about each piece that he played.  This guy should be named ambassador of the classical guitar.  In Spain (and maybe elsewhere) classical guitar concerts are always attended mostly by guitarists but musicians like Zoran Dukić might change that, he is one of the best choices if you want to turn someone on to guitar concerts.

I should mention his tone too.  My wife loved the “sound of his guitar” and I tried to convince her that to a large degree it is the player who makes the tone but she wasn’t having any of it.  “It sounds great, I’ll bet it’s a Granada guitar”, she said.  Well it was a Friederich so at least it’s made of wood and it did sound good.

Thanks to the Palacio de Congresos and the musical director of this series of concerts, Gloria Medina.  We don’t get enough classical guitar concerts in this city.  Speaking of which, the International Music and Dance Festival of Granada has a new director and he has been heard to say that he would like to see more guitar music in this year’s edition, we’ll keep an eye out.