Dinner

We had a dinner and party in our flat Yesterday with our Portuguese friends Rui, Antonio, Paulo, a Brittish guy called James. And some Hungarians came as well - Barbi, Kinga and Gyuri.

I was cooking for hours and of course I Played on my guitar and others did.

I cooked lots of stuffs. 'Lecso' as well.

Setubal Newspaper

From the local newspaper

And the article from Setubalense (local newspaper)

And the kids

More Pictures rom Setubal

More pictures from Escola Secundária D. João II







In the school yard.

Setubal

We arrived to Portugal on 20th September. I was so scared that I was not going to have that much concerts as I usually do in Central-Eastern-Europe. (When I say "we" I speak about my wife, our daughter, Manuella and myself.) And now I am so tired I have so much concerts here. Portuguese people are so culturally active that is unbelievable to me.

Today I played in Setubal, a very nice city approx. 50 km from Lisbon. This was my first school concert in Portugal. I played twice for two group of kids (50 kids). Around 45 minutes for each group. I played Tarrega, Villa-Lobos - latin repertoir. And of cours Bela Bartok's pieces. Kids were around 15-16 years old and totally open-minded and brave to ask me about art, my life, repertoir my thinking about art, music, why I'm doing this etc. They were very much intelligent. And actually they started to ask me on their own without any teacher pressure. Maria Joao Reis organised me these two concert and I am very thankful to her. And I got a great bottle of wine too!

They published a short article about me in the local Setubal paper called Setubalense.

Pictures by Maria Joao

Doing more and more concerts in Portugal

I am very happy now because I am doing couple of concerts in Portugal. I am still waiting for confirmations to do more.

Here you can find the list of my concerts sandormester.com
I am looking for an agent...

A nice guy, André - a guitarist also - is organising a concert where three of us will play on 11th of October in Lisbon. The place is called Casa de Lafoes looks cool on the website.

Today we were at Isabel's place in Sintra - she was very nice to us. I tried piri-piri which is a hot, extremely hot chili paprika - you can not imagine...

I still practice 3 hours a day, everyday - that is only enough for me to keep my level of play....

Concerts in Lisbon

Yesterday I played on a wonderfull quare of Lisbon at Eschadinhas de Sao Miguel. There was a silent movie that I played with as in the old times. Before that I was playing some Tarrega pieces. I enjoyed it very much. My friends Joao and Frederico organised it. I was playing on 'Cinalfama' project Then I went to Miguel's place to meet him, he was so nice as well. People here in Portugal are so nice and helpfull I can not believe it..

Pictures from the concert









And some pictures from Joana's party

Sintra - and Lisboa

Today we went to Sintra to look around in the historic center. I went to the local cultural centre called Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval and gave my demo dvds to the cultural organiser lady. Maybe I can play in Sintra - it would be so cool.

At the evening we met Rui who is a nice guy and helping us a lot.

Then we went to Joana's flat for a dinner. There were couple of Portuguese boys and girls, a girl from Belgium and Romania. Frederico and Joao organisers of the event 'Cinalmafa' which is an outdoor cinema and music event. I'll play there...

Picures from Tejobar

Pictures of my play in Tejobar in Lisbon. And I also tried fado guitar.

First days in Lisbon

We arrived to Lisbon two days ago on Sunday 20h September. Isabel Chaves - film prducer - found us a great flat to rent so it was the first great surprise in Lisbon. On the second day we went to a Fado place with Antonio and then to Tejobar which seems a cult place in Lisboa. They gave me a guitar so I played two pieces of Heitor Villa-Lobos there. They liked it very much.. It was around 2-3 at the morning.

They played different kind of music with guitar and they were singing very nice. Guests, musicians...

It was my first experience in Lisbon and it was so fantastic. Cool and nice people love guitar music