DeVoe Guitars Newsletter
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DeVoe Guitars Newsletter
DeVoe Guitars Newsletter November, 2010 Phone: 805-931-0313 Email: [email protected] Two thousand ten has been an exciting year in my career. In late September I traveled to Spain to deliver a new guitar to Paco de Lucia, accompanied by my friends, Johannes Inhoffen of Mundo Flamenco in Freiburg, Germany, David Keene of Vintage American Guitar in Texas and Flamenco guitarist and writer from Louisiana, Kevin Coleman. We converged at Paco’s hilltop estate on the island of Mallorca with three guitars, a negra and two blancas. Not an Paco de Lucia trying out his new guitar, Mallorca, Spain easy task to choose, but in the end, 9:00 PM, Viejín Paco decided on one of the blancas. The and his group of guitar has my new “Santos” design rosette, Jesus followers matching purfling with a scale of 655 mm. present a lovely When returning to Madrid, I visited time of singwith Paco again after his concert, also with ing with a Bible his brother Pepe, and guitarists Tomatito presentation for and Niño Josele. the studio dancWe met with guitarist El Viejín and his ers and anyone wife Anna at the Amor de Dios Dance Stuelse who wants dio in Madrid, where on Monday evenings at to listen. I was honored when asked to share a Bible verse with the group. The Gitano band of singer, guitarist and percussionist played some Niño Josele, Lester, Tomatito Paco de Lucia’s new DeVoe guitar guitarist Grisha Goryachev. I was thrilled with Grisha’s musical selections, the best compositions of the greatest flamenco guitarists from Sabicas to Paco de Lucia and today’s top artists. Every piece was on my “favorites list” and it was one of the most enjoyable concerts I have ever heard. Paco and Lester wonderful, inspirational and passionate praise music. I then traveled with Johannes and David to Johannes’ home in a remote mountain village in the Alpujarras region south of Granada where we toured the gardens of the Alhambra, hiked and visited with some of the guitar makers in the region. Before taking our respective flights home from Madrid we spent a night at the country home of the talented musician, Amir John Haddad, just outside the city. Madrid based, concert and recording artist, Amir plays a variety of string instruments and was kind to record a short video on one of my guitars. Last June I traveled to the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) Festival Competition in Austin, Texas to attend one of the premier evening concerts by flamenco Lester, El Viejín, and Johannes at Amor de Dios dance studio. Amir John Haddad Photo credit: All photos by David Keene
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