TGQ has a small tour around Estonian State Concert’s concert halls with the new program: Four concerts from Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armonico. Live dates: 21st of July 2010 Jõhvi Concert Hall 22nd of July 2010 Pärnu Concert Hall 24th of July 2010 Tallinn Town Hall Listen to Jõhvi live:
Building Up a Guitarist’s Practising Plan
Often I talk to people who have everything that it takes to improve their guitar playing: they have time to practise, they have good guitars, the will and motivation. Not to mention tons of study materials, guitar method books, DVDs and online courses. Still they’re not happy with their progress and tend to blaim either… Continue reading
Iberia live at Kuressaare 05.08.2010
Tickets from here, pdf poster from here: iberia
A Perfect Training for a Guitarist – Accompanying Dancers
For two days I was asked to help my friend Maria, who runs a flamenco school in Tallinn. We have been performing together for a few years but this time she asked me to participate in her special Farruca-class to accompany her students. Usually they practise with music from CDs so it was a special… Continue reading
Playing guitar in the garden
Kristo plays the Impressao de Rua by Isaias Savio in his garden.
Almost Dance Album live in Haapsalu
Yesterday I performed a dance program with Maria Rääk (dance, castagnets, clapping, choreography) and Reigo Ahven (cajon) at the Haapsalu Kuursaal (look at the second picture). The program was partly same as my Dance Album tracklist but we’ve taken everything non-Spanish as this show was a total Spanish romantic era program. We played: Turina Fandanguillo… Continue reading
Iberia live at Haapsalu and Kuressaare
Maria Rääk (choreography, castagnets, clapping, dancing), Reigo Ahven (cajon) and Kristo Käo (guitar) play a live program Iberia. It is made up of Spanish romantic music – Albeniz, Tarrega, Malats, Serrano etc. Maria has created a choreography to the music. Two live concerts: 25th of June 2010 Haapsalu Kuursaal 5th of August 2010 Kuressaare Kuursaal… Continue reading
A new free online course – Playing Simple Melodies on the Guitar
Kitarrikool Publishing released a new free online course: Playing Simple Melodies on the Guitar. It is free for everyone and it is in English. Want to take up the guitar? Try it: Playing Simple Melodies on the Guitar
Kristo Käo releases a new book and video CDR: Tuning and maintaining the guitar
Kitarrikool Publishing realeased a book and video-CDR set “Kitarri hooldamine ja häälestamine”. It is in Estonian language and covers popular topics as choosing and changing the strings, different options of tuning the guitar etc. Available from bookstores and Kitarripood.ee
The tap dance show with Guillem Alonso 2010
It was one of the first posts to this blog, where I was talking about the initial impulses to create this kind of guitar album, and I was then talking about the influences of the reknown tap dancer Guillem Alonso. Now, two days ago he was here again and I had the chance to accompany… Continue reading