Virtuoso guitarist :John Gilliat - Freedom
Discover passionate and fiery guitar music that will energize you, soothe your soul and lift your spirits. Virtuoso guitarist presents a new direction and contemporary expression to new flamenco, rumba and jazz.
When John Gilliat holds his acoustic guitar he holds technique and emotion in melodic balance and holds his audience in the palm of his hand.
He didn't come by his gift overnight of course. The Canadian-born musician picked up the guitar when he was just 9 years old. By the time he had graduated from High School, he was ready to take the show on the road, touring across Canada and the United States with various pop groups playing venues such as Harrah's in Lake Tahoe and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
After several years touring North America John took the time to formally study his art. He took private lessons with various teachers and later majored in jazz at Capilano College, where he received a scholarship and graduated with top honours. In the guitar, John had found his instrument but he was still searching for his muse.
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Steve Calafati
Mediterra
Evocative, melodic and passionate music influenced by the sounds and culture of Spain.
Steve Calafati changes any current preconception about what the guitar is expected to do by combining his formidable artistry and compositional skills, with a moody, gorgeously realized return to its homeland, so to speak. In many ways Spain is the culture of guitars, and guitars, in any form, carry with them, that very Spanish provenance. It was only a matter of time, for a constantly evolving musician like Calafati to rediscover its heritage. In 1997, Steve began his study of flamenco with Master guitarist Enrique Vargas to improve his nylon string technique. "Little did I know the study of Flamenco would take over my entire musical life", Steve recalls. And so, into this endeavor went Calafati, a musician of the first order, who already knew the guitar quite well. Previous independent releases found Steve being showcased for his command of styles of guitar playing, as well as seeing the development of his overall musical concept. Calafati happens to be a tremendously gifted composer whose sense of balance and taste far outshines the narrow confines of the "instrumentalist/guitarist" genre. This man can write too! Steve's subsequent trips to the countries of the Mediterranean, where the sun, sea, architecture, food and life style influenced the development of his songs and sounds, constitute a pilgrimage of sorts. His new release, Mediterra, is the result.
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Chris Burton Jácome
Pa'lante
BIO:
Chris Burton Jacome began playing guitar in 1986. While living in Sevilla, Spain, Chris studied flamenco guitar with some of the greatest flamenco performers of this era including: Miguel Aragon, Manolo Franco, Juan del Gastor, Juan Amador, Juana Amaya, Enrique Robles, Segundo Falcon and Cristo "El Frances."
Chris has played many sold-out solo performances and has worked alongside great artists in the U.S. such as Carlota Santana's Spanish Dance Company (New York), Tania Tandias (Wisconsin), Caminos Flamencos (San Francisco), ‘Zona Flamenca (Scottsdale) and Flamenco Y Más (Tucson). Chris is currently the musical director for the largest flamenco company in the United States, Calo Flamenco with 22 members, Chris writes the music and performs with this Broadway-ready flamenco show.
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