Tonight I’m back to play solo guitar at Vancouver’s newly renovated Rosewood Georgia Hotel.
I’m really, really excited about this one as I’ll be performing for The Hershey’s Company. Yes!, The Chocolate Guy’s!
Once again I’ll be taking you behind the scenes with another episode of Guitar Slinger
Then I’m off to Kamloops, BC where I’ll be performing as a soloist and then as a guitar duo with Andre Stepanian and the lovely Flamenco Dancing Virtuoso Stephanie Pedraza!
Last night I performed at Robson Square in the heart of downtown Vancouver. This is a great little spot were we have an outdoor ice rink. Unfortunately, the rink had been closed for the last 20 years and it’s so wonderful that the city has re-opened the rink once again. (I really hope the city continues to keep this going)
This gig was a free outdoor concert were I performed with my quartet. Brent Gubbels on bass, 
Lyndon Dewitt on percussion and Andre Stepanian on guitar. I felt a little sorry for Andre as he finished his 3 hour performance with us and had to rush off (with icy fingers) for another 3 hour gig at the Latin Quarter.
It was a very cold evening and playing outside for us means performing with icy fingers! Unfortunately
with today’s new technologies our lighting system is now made up of par cans with LED lights that do not provide a lot of heat on stage like the old systems. This was one of those gigs were you really miss sweating it out under all that stage lighting. We had heaters up in the scaffolding however they really were not that effective.
For this gig we arrived at 5pm for a sound check and began our performance at 6pm. It was a little warmer then however after our first break at 7 it began to get really cold. Even with the icy fingers I really enjoyed playing this event and would like to thank everyone for coming out. We had a blast! It felt like the old days when I was performing with my old top 40 rock band at the roller rinks. It was so cool playing as everyone was skating around dancing to the music. I really hope the Robson Square rink is here to stay!
Our next public performance will be March 12th at Fort Langley’s Chief Sepass theatre with Special Guests Stephanie Pedraza (Flamenco dancer and vocalist) and LA’s virtuoso Spanish guitarist Benjamin Woods. Click here for details
Guitar Duo set up at Taverna Gorgona
Once again I’m back performing at Taverna Gorgona and what a great night it was. We had a great turn out and I had a blast performing with Ben Woods. What a great guitarist!
If you haven’t heard Ben or listened to his guitar playing you really need to check him out. You can visit Ben online at www.spanishguitarplayer.com
Next I would like to thank everyone who came out to see us!
Ben and I first met years ago, online. We were both nylon string guitar players and band leaders both trying to learn from each other how to better market our music through website link exchanges, etc… We also met in person at the LA Namm show a few years ago.
As you may know I have been working with guitar luthier Daniel Turner in Victoria and Daniel was also a big fan of Ben’s guitar playing. Daniel thought it would be really great to have Ben and I play as a guitar duo so he set it up.
I had invited Ben to stay with us while he was here to work on the music for Daniel’s project and I had also created a performance here at Taverna Gorgona.
Our performance at TG was so much fun, not only were we playing my music, but we had also performed some great rumba flamenco style metal classics. Music from the Scorpions, Iron Maiden and Malmsteen.
The gig that night was from 6pm to 10pm. Then afterwards I sat and relaxed while Ben and flamenco dancer, vocalist Stephanie Pedraza entertained us with a wonderful intimate table side acoustic flamenco performance.
Next it was off to Victoria to shoot the video for Daniel Turners Sola guitar project.
