Yesterday we performed our dance program in a very-very suitable environment. It was as if the classic black box and a good sounding chamber hall had a child. In fact, it was a theatre hall built to an old bank. High ceiling, good stage, audience sitting around the stage. It was a very special show…. Continue reading
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The Dance Album on sale in UK
My favorite solo guitar CD “The Dance Album” reached today the guitar music store at www.guitarcds.net and got positive critics. So here it is: By the way, without much planning my new solo CD came out – much different from “The Dance Album” but people seem to like it. Check out my “Live at cafe… Continue reading
Dance album live at Vana-Vigala manor house
Vana-Vigala manor celebrated the 1st of September with a guitar and dance concert. They’ve just ended a massive renovation and the house looks prettier than ever. Estonia has plenty of manor houses but most of them are in a bad situation. But all of them have their own character and to play music in such… Continue reading
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
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
Dance Album live in Meder hall
There has been several live concerts with the dance project this summer but the one in the Meder’s hall in Tallinn is again something to talk about. It was organized by the Estonian National Concert and the hall is a special venue that they discovered and restored recently. The hall is in the building of… Continue reading
Some feedback from radio stations
So far I have got some friendly feedback from radio stations that have played my “Dance Album” and I would like to share them here. This is a quatation from Nick Peros’s letter to me and I hope he doesn’t mind if I share it here because I get nowadays many people contacting me to… Continue reading
The list of radio stations that got “The Dance Album” so far
As I said before – on my own I sent my CD to many European classical music radio stations but in North America the job was done by Phoenix Classical and these are the stations that got my album: CBC Radio Music – NIGHSTREAM, Toronto, ON CBC RADIO MUSIC – TEMPO, Ottawa, ON Classical 96,… Continue reading
Kristo Käo’s bio by Phoenix Records
That is part of the material that went out with my Dance Album to the radio stations. It is always good to get somebody else to write your BIO 🙂 I have almost got used to see my last name without the dots, actually it is KÄO. KRISTO KAO – BIO Classical guitarist Kristo Kao… Continue reading
The “new release” sheet by Phoenix
So that is part of the information that went to the radio stations with the Dance Album: NEW RELEASE Kristo Kao, The Dance Album The Dance Album is the debut solo CD release from acclaimed classical guitarist Kristo Kao and features a unique dance-inspired repertoire performed on solo guitar. With a variety of compositions ranging… Continue reading