Monday, October 12, 2009

Guitar Festival in Casa de Lafoes

We did the guitar festival in Casa de Lafoes. Me and three other gents. Casa de Lafoes is such a nice place with an extremely hot ambience. I love that hall and the building as well. Casa de Lafoes is a kind of cultural centre on Rua de Madalena quite close to us and it is so cool and elegant!

There were 50-60 people - enjoying the marvellous and unique instrument called guitar. I was the only one of four us who was playing classical music. I played two Choros by Heitor-Villa Lobos, Giulliani: D-major Praeludium, Fernando Sor: Mozart-Variations, Francisco Tarréga: Capriccio Arabé, Bela Bartok: 20 Movements from "For Children" (originally composed for piano). And finally the "Senerade" that I composed for my wife - love of my life. Not a great thing to tell to the audience that you wrote it to me because then you lose lots of female fans!! - told me my wife afterwards.

I enjoyed very much to play there. I got so many great feedbacks from the audience - they were so nice to me. I played as emotional as I could. We were on the beach Today and I could sleep well during the last night and a lot so I was in a great mood.

There is a disco sphere on the ceiling - they use this hall for dancing school as well as other activities.



Sandor Mester playing at Casa de Lafoes:





Giuliani - D-major Praeludium
Recorded by Nuno - very nice guy from Sintra. Lot of THANKS for him!!



Me before the concert. Preparing my nails - concentrating.



Andre - organiser of the festival. Played blues and jazz.



James and his friend. Singing, guitar and percussion



Paulo played jazz standards. This is the most complicated thing to play alone jazz standards!!



A very great friend of mine - Andreas Kemi - he is in Lisbon for couple of days and he came to my concert. I was happy to see him there! We had a great chat in the bar about private life, Portugal's history, economy and lots of things.



All of us after the concert
the four players, singers and Paulo Santos my friend who was the speaker of the night and helping me very much in Portugal