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Cambridge
Guitar Club sessions are online with Skype or in
person.
Over
sixteens only please for
the online sessions.
When we meet in person
then our venue is usually St
James Centre, Wulfstan Way, Cambridge CB1 8QJ
Entrance
is five
pounds please
towards room hire.
Entrance for under sixteens is one pound and accompanied by
an adult please.
How
to get to the St James Centre
Future
events on
Thursdays in 2024
at
St James Centre:-
18
July,
7:30pm to 9pm, Guitar Ensemble
4
July,
7:30pm to 9:30pm, Guitar Club
20
June,
7:30pm to 9pm, Guitar Ensemble
6
June,
7:30pm to 9:30pm, Guitar Club
23
May,
7:30pm to 9pm, Guitar Ensemble
16
May,
7:30pm to 9:30pm, Guitar Club
25
April, 7:30pm to 9pm, Guitar Ensemble
La
Cumparsita tango
, Bluetown
Brays , Taconeado
Earlier
events:-
Thursday
11
April
2024,
7:30pm-9:30pm,
Guitar Club
We
played pieces by JS
Bach, The
Beatles, Steve Marsh, Will
McNicol, Eythor Thorlaksson, Mason
Williams and traditional
Scottish and
Latin American.
Ensemble
music:
All
in a Garden Green and
English
Country Garden
Thursday
21
March
2024,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
All
in a Garden Green ,
Maple
Leaf Rag
, English
Country Garden
Thursday
7
March 2024,
7pm-10pm, Guitar Club
Music
by Zequinha de Abreu, JS Bach, Yvonne
Bloor, David
Burden, Jorge Cardoso, Turlough
O'Carolan, Napoléon
Coste, Duke
Jordan, Will
McNicol, Dilermando
Reis, Gary Ryan, Federico
Moreno Torroba, Andrew
York, traditional English, Scottish, Chilean and Canadian.
Ensemble
music:
Noche
en los Andes
by Eythor Thorlaksson. Sailor's
Hornpipe
English traditional. El
Cachimbo
folk song from Chile.
Thursday
22
February
2024,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Noche
en los Andes’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson,
‘Sailor's
Hornpipe’
traditional English, ‘El Cachimbo’ folk
song from Chile.
Thursday
8
February
2024,
7pm-10pm, Guitar Club
Music
by Larry
Carlton, Ruaidrí Dáll Ó Catháin, John Dowland, Jacinto
Guerrero, Kris Kristofferson, Antonio Lauro, John Dee Loudermilk
Jr., Don McLean, Manuel
Ponce, Django
Reinhardt, Moisés Simons, Francisco
Tarrega,
and
traditional North American.
Ensemble
music:
‘El
Condor Pasa’
song
from the Andes,
‘Kelly
the Pirate’ and ‘Grace O’Malley’
sea
songs, ‘Calypso’
Jamaican
folk dance.
Thursday
25
January
2024,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘El
Condor Pasa’
song
from the Andes,
‘Kelly
the Pirate’ and ‘Grace O’Malley’
sea
songs, ‘Calypso’
Jamaican
folk dance.
Thursday
11
January
2024,
7pm-10pm, Guitar Club
We
played music
by Ferdinando
Carulli, Leonard
Cohen, Bart
Howard, José
Luis Merlin, Ariel Ramírez, Tony
Skinner, Jay
Ungar, Leonardo Vinci, John Williams and traditional Celtic and
South American pieces. Ensemble
music:
‘Bransle
Gay’ by Michael Praetorius, ‘Las
Mañanitas’ Mexican
folk song, ‘La
Partida’ Venezuelan traditional.
Thursday
21
December
2023,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Deck
the Halls’ Welsh traditional, ‘In
the Bleak Midwinter’ by Gustav Holst, ‘We
Three Kings of Orient Are’ by John Hopkins, ‘Las Mañanitas’
Mexican
folk song, ‘Bransle
Gay’ by Michael Praetorius, ‘La Partida’ Venezuelan
traditional.
Thursday
7
December 2023,
7pm-10pm, Guitar Club
Performances
of music composed by The Beatles, Johann Christian Gebauer, Scott
Joplin, Will
McNicol, Manuel
Ponce, Erik Satie, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tárrega, and
traditional
American.
Ensemble
music:
‘Deck
the Halls’ Welsh traditional, ‘In
the Bleak Midwinter’ by Gustav Holst, ‘We
Three Kings of Orient Are’ by John Hopkins, ‘Las Mañanitas’
Mexican
folk song, ‘Jingle
Bells’ by James
Pierpont, ‘Villancico’
Spanish
Christmas carol,
‘We
wish you a Merry Christmas’ English traditional.
Thursday
30
November
2023,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Deck
the Halls’ Welsh traditional, ‘In
the Bleak Midwinter’ by Gustav Holst, ‘We
Three Kings of Orient Are’ by John Hopkins, ‘Las Mañanitas’
Mexican
folk song, ‘Jingle
Bells’ by James
Pierpont, ‘Villancico’
Spanish
Christmas carol,
‘We
wish you a Merry Christmas’ English traditional.
Thursday
9
November
2023,
7pm-10pm, Guitar Club
We
played pieces by
Julian
Arcas, Fridrik Bjarnason, Matteo
Carcassi, Jorge
Cardoso, Anton
Diabelli, Sigfús
Einarsson, Erroll Garner,
Davey
Graham,
Jesse
Harris, Will
McNicol, Johann
Kaspar Mertz,
and
tango improvisation. Ensemble
music:
‘Rue
du Moulin’ by Will McNicol. ‘La
Cumparsita’ tango
by Gerardo
Rodriguez.
‘When
the Boat comes in’, traditional
sea
song. ‘El
Gato Feliz’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson.
Thursday
19
October
2023,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Rue
du Moulin’ by Will McNicol. ‘La
Cumparsita’ tango
by Gerardo
Rodriguez.
‘When
the Boat comes in’, traditional
sea
song. ‘El
Gato Feliz’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson.
Thursday
5
October 2023,
7pm-10pm, Guitar Club
Music
by Arthur (Blind) Blake, Bartolomé Calatayud, Vincenzo Capirola,
Luis de Narváez, Tony
Skinner,
Luis
de Soria, Richard
Starkey, gypsy
jazz, traditional Russian ‘Dark Eyes’, Catalan and Celtic.
Ensemble
music:
‘All
in a Garden Green’ quartet,
traditional English; ‘Sea
songs’ quartet,
traditional; ‘The
Greenwood Tree’ quartet,
traditional English; and
‘Estartit’ trio, folk dance.
Thursday
21
September
2023,
7pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘All
in a Garden Green’ quartet,
traditional English; ‘Sea
songs’ quartet,
traditional; ‘The
Greenwood Tree’ quartet,
traditional English; and
‘Estartit’ trio, folk dance.
Thursday
7
September
2023,
7pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
We
played pieces by Julian
Arcas, John
Denver, Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar (!), Brenda
Gatusch, Antonio
Lauro,
Johann
Kaspar Mertz,
Baden
Powell de Aquino, Federico
Moreno Torroba, and
an anonymous renaissance piece.
Ensemble
pieces
were ‘Musette’
quartet
by George Handel,
‘Choucoune’
quartet,
a
Haitian
song by
Michael Monton, ‘Taconeado’
trio,
traditional
Mexican
folk dance.
Summer
holiday break
in August
Thursday
20
July
2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Musette’
quartet
by George Handel,
‘Choucoune’
quartet,
a
Haitian
song by
Michael Monton, ‘Taconeado’
trio,
traditional
Mexican
folk dance.
Thursday
6
July
2023,
8pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
Compositions
by JS
Bach, Agustín
Barrios, Arthur
Hamilton / Davey Graham, Robin
Pearson, Domenico
Scarlatti, Fernando
Sor, Francisco
Tarrega,
Federico
Moreno Torroba, Aphex
Twin, Sylvius
Leopold Weiss, and
Flamenco Tanguillo
and
Petenera.
Ensemble
pieces
were ‘The
Mermaid’
trio,
traditional English sea shanty, ‘Gigue’
duo
by
Sylvius
Leopold Weiss,
‘Calypso’
trio,
traditional Jamaican
folk dance.
Thursday
22
June
2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘The
Mermaid’
trio,
traditional English sea shanty, ‘Gigue’
duo
by
Sylvius
Leopold Weiss,
‘Calypso’
trio,
traditional Jamaican
folk dance.
Thursday
8
June
2023,
8pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
We
played music by Julian
Arcas, Matteo
Carcassi, Ruaidrí
Dáll Ó Catháin,
Abel
Fleury, Vincent
Lindsey-Clark,
Robin
Pearson, Stephen
Sondheim, Heitor
Villa-Lobos, Sylvius
Leopold Weiss, and
Flamenco Granadinas
and
Rumba.
Ensemble
pieces
were ‘English
Country Garden’ trio,
traditional English,
‘Isle
of Capri’ trio
by Wilhelm Grosz, ‘Spring
Song’ quartet
by Mozart.
Thursday
25
May
2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘English Country Garden’ trio,
traditional English,
‘Isle
of Capri’ trio
by Wilhelm Grosz, ‘Spring
Song’ quartet
by Mozart.
Thursday
11
May
2023,
8pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
Works
by Julian
Arcas, Leo
Brouwer, Scott
Joplin, Gaspar Sanz, Quique Sinesi, Joaquín
Malats / Francisco
Tarrega, Heitor
Villa-Lobos, and
Flamenco soleares and farruca.
Ensemble
pieces
were ‘Noche
en los Andes’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson, ‘Guitar
Boogie Shuffle’ traditional,
‘El
Cachimbo’ folk
song from Chile.
Thursday
27
April
2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Noche
en los Andes’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson, ‘Guitar
Boogie Shuffle’ traditional,
‘El
Cachimbo’ folk
song from Chile.
Thursday
13
April 2023,
8pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
Composers
and music featured today: JS
Bach, Leo
Brouwer, Antonio
Lauro, Vincent
Lindsey-Clark,
Iain
MacLachlan,
Will
McNicol, Domenico
Scarlatti,
Fernando
Sor,
Andy
Wilson, Andrew
York, a
renaissance dance and traditional
rags.
Ensemble
pieces
were ‘Como
quieres que te quieras’ folk song from Leon, ‘Auld
lang syne’ Scottish traditional, ‘El
Gato Feliz’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson.
Thursday
23
March
2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Como
quieres que te quieras’ folk song from Leon, ‘Auld
lang syne’ Scottish traditional, ‘El
Gato Feliz’ by
Eythor Thorlaksson.
Thursday
9
March
2023,
8pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
We
played guitar
pieces
by
Isaac Albéniz, Leo
Brouwer, Matteo
Carcassi, Davey
Graham, Will
McNicol, João
Pernambuco,
George
Poulton, Elvis Presley, Sergei Rudnev, Thomas Robinson, Jay
Ungar, Andrew
York, traditional Scottish. Ensemble
pieces
were ‘Hewlett'
by Turlough O'Carolan, 'El Condor Pasa' traditional
song
from the Andes, and
'Spring Song' by Mozart.
Thursday
23
February
2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Hewlett' by Turlough O'Carolan, 'El Condor Pasa' traditional
song
from the Andes, and
'Spring Song' by Mozart.
Thursday
9
February
2023,
8pm-10pm,
Guitar
Club
Guitar
solos
by
JS
Bach, Leo
Brouwer, Tomás Damas, Cesare
Negri, Manuel
Ponce, Fernando
Sor, Andrew
York, traditional Scottish and Spanish. And the ensembles
were ‘Keppel’s
Delight’,
an
English jig.
‘Marcelino’
duo
by
Eythor
Thorlaksson’.
‘The Mermaid’ quartet,
traditional
sea
shanty.
Thursday
26
January 2023,
8pm
to 9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Keppel’s
Delight’,
an
English jig.
‘Marcelino’
duo
by
Eythor
Thorlaksson’.
‘The Mermaid’ quartet,
traditional
sea
shanty.
Thursday
12
January
2023,
8pm-10pm,
St James Centre
We
performed guitar pieces by
JS
Bach, Agustín
Barrios, Cearbhaill
O’Dalaigh, Will
McNicol, Dilermando
Reis, Franz
Schubert, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tárrega, Sylvius
Leopold Weiss and
John
Williams. Ensembles
were ‘El
Noy de la Mare’
Spanish
traditional.
‘Acapi’
Greek dance. ‘Flowerland’ by Eythor Thorlaksson.
‘La
Cumparsita’
tango
by Gerardo Rodriguez.
Thursday
15
December
2022,
8pm-9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘El
Noy de la Mare’
Spanish
traditional.
‘Acapi’
Greek dance. ‘Flowerland’ by Eythor Thorlaksson.
‘La
Cumparsita’
tango
by Gerardo Rodriguez.
Thursday
8
December
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St James Centre
Music
by
Julian
Arcas, Abel
Fleury, Luigi
Mozzani, Manuel
Ponce, Erik Satie, Heitor
Villa-Lobos, John
Williams, and flamenco ‘Soleares’ and Celtic and Spanish
traditional pieces. Ensembles
were ‘Nadal’,
a
Spanish
Christmas carol. ‘In Christmas Time’ by
Eythor
Thorlaksson.
‘Villancico’,
a
Spanish
Christmas carol. ‘Calypso’,
a
traditional Jamaican
folk dance. ‘Jingle
Bells’ by
James Pierpont.
Thursday
17
November 2022,
8pm-9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
Ensemble
music:
‘Nadal’,
a
Spanish
Christmas carol. ‘In Christmas Time’ by
Eythor
Thorlaksson.
‘Villancico’,
a
Spanish
Christmas carol. ‘Calypso’,
a
traditional Jamaican
folk dance. ‘Jingle
Bells’ by
James Pierpont.
Thursday
3
November
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St James Centre
Solo
arrangements by JS Bach, Baden
Powell de Aquino, Juan José Buscaglia, Napoléon
Coste, Brenda
Gatusch, Antonio
Lauro, Will
McNicol, Manuel
Randi, Dilermando
Reis, Luis
de Soria, Jay
Ungar, Heitor
Villa-Lobos. And
ensembles
were folk
song ‘I
Stood in the Moonlight’, ‘The
Lass of Glen Shee’ traditional Scottish, and ‘Taconeado’
traditional Mexican.
Thursday
20
October 2022,
8pm-9:30pm,
Guitar
Ensemble
We
played all
ensemble
music:
‘I
Stood in the Moonlight’ folk song, ‘The
Lass of Glen Shee’ traditional Scottish, and ‘Taconeado’
traditional Mexican.
Thursday
6
October
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St James Centre
We
played music by Baden
Powell de Aquino, The
Beatles, Brenda Gatusch, Viktor
Kozlov, Luigi Legnani, Peter Nuttall, Luis
de Soria, Jay
Ungar, Fats
Waller, and
a traditional American spiritual. Ensembles were traditional
English, a folk song from Chile, and a Jamaican rumba.
Thursday
8 September
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St James Centre
Solos
by J
S Bach, Agustín Barrios, George
Handel, Scott
Joplin, Eduardo Martin, Will
McNicol,
Dilermando
Reis, Domenico
Scarlatti and
traditional Brazilian, Celtic and English pieces.
Ensembles by J S Bach, Eythor
Thorlaksson and
traditional Spanish.
Summer
holiday break
in August
Thursday
7 July
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St James Centre
Ensemble
pieces by Fridrik Bjarnason, Will
McNicol and
a traditional Jamaican
calypso. Solo perfomances of music
by Harold
Arlen, J
S Bach, Baden
Powell de Aquino, Matteo
Carcassi,
George
Handel, Robert
Johnson, Will
McNicol, Francisco
Tarrega, plus
two songs and two percussive guitar pieces.
Thursday
9 June
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St
James Centre
Solo
compositions and arangements of music by Agustín
Barrios, Mauro
Giuliani, Guinga,
Peter
Nuttall, Manuel Ponce, Juan Rodriguez,
The
Beatles, Sebastián
Yradier and
traditional Spanish. Ensembles by Johann
Gebauer, Will
McNicol and
a traditional Andean piece.
Thursday
5 May
2022,
7pm-10pm,
Friends
Meeting House
12 Jesus Lane
We
played ensembles of Danish and Mexican music, and a piece by
Eythor
Thorlaksson.
Plus
solos composed by JS Bach, José Brocá, David
Cottam, José
Ferrer, Will
McNicol, Baden
Powell de Aquino and Fernando Sor.
Thursday
7 April
2022,
8pm-10pm,
St
James Centre
A
mixture of ensemble and solo guitar
compositions
/ arrangements by
Yvonne
Bloor, Terry Gilkyson, Johann
Kaspar Mertz, Gram
Parsons, Astor
Piazzolla, Gerardo
Rodríguez, David
Russell, Domenico
Scarlatti, plus traditional tunes – Celtic, Chilean, English
and
Spanish.
Thursday
3 March 2022 at St James Centre
The
guitar ensembles
today
were traditional
music
from
Catalonia,
Chile and England and a tango by Gerardo Rodríguez. Solo
guitar
pieces by Leo
Brouwer, Matteo
Carcassi, John
Dowland,
Manuel
de Falla, Scott
Joplin, Wenzel Matiegka, Will
McNicol, João
Pernambuco,
Pixinguinha, Baden
Powell de Aquino, Francisco Tarrega and
Heitor
Villa-Lobos.
Thursday
3 February 2022 at St James Centre
We
played guitar ensembles
- traditional
music
from
Chile,
Greece, Jamaica and Spain.
And
guitar
solos
composed
by
Henry
VIII, Scott Joplin, Johann
Kaspar Mertz, João
Pernambuco,
Tatiana Stachak, Salvador
Violla, traditional Scottish, and some bossa nova too.
Thursday
13 January 2022 at St James Centre
Ensemble
music
by Eythor
Thorlaksson and
three
traditional
pieces
from England and the Andes. Guitar solos
by Julian
Arcas, Matteo
Carcassi, John
Dowland, Joseph Küffner, Lennon
and McCartney, Eduardo
Martin, Baden
Powell, Heitor
Villa-Lobos and
a traditional piece from Spain.
Thursday
16 December
2021
online
The
guitar ensemble
music
was
by Johann Gebauer, James
Pierpont, Eythor
Thorlaksson and
traditional Jamaican, Mexican and Spanish Christmas carols.
Also
solos
by Julian
Arcas, Turlough O’Carolan, Napoléon Coste, Gary
Ryan, Francisco
Tárrega and
Celtic traditional music. Merry Xmas!
Thursday
2 December 2021 at St James Centre
We
played ensemble music
by JS
Bach, Eythor
Thorlaksson, Sylvius
Leopold Weiss and
a traditional Spanish Christmas carol. And solos by José
Brocá, Ferdinando
Carulli, Antonio
Lauro, João Pernambuco, Baden
Powell, Stephen Sondheim, Francisco Tárrega, Eythor
Thorlaksson, and
some
blues and
a medley of Christmas music.
Thursday
4 November 2021 at St James Centre
Music
by
Giulio
Cesare Barbetta, Fridrik
Bjarnason, Antonio
Lauro, Peter Nuttall, Baden
Powell, Gaspar Sanz, Gerald
Schwertberger, Fernando
Sor, Eythor
Thorlaksson, and
traditional English,
Scottish, Spanish and
Russian tunes.
Thursday
7 October 2021 at St James Centre
We
played music by Julian Arcas, Fra Lippo Lippi, Mauro Giuliani,
John Hurt, Joseph
Kosma, Johann
Mattheson,
Johnny
Mathis, Will McNicol, Glenn Miller, Fernando Sor, Eythor
Thorlaksson, and
traditional English and Jamaican
tunes.
Thursday
9 September 2021 at St James Centre
Ensembles
by Sigfús Einarsson and Eythor Thorlaksson. And fingerstyle
guitar solos of music by John Dowland, Kris
Kristofferson, Johann
Kaspar Mertz, Joni
Mitchell, Peter Nuttall, Astor
Piazzolla, Gerald
Schwertberger and
Andy Wilson.
Summer
holiday in August
Thursday
8 July 2021 online
The
ensemble guitar music was traditional Andean, Mexican and a piece
by Eythor Thorlaksson. Solos were composed by Abel Fleury, Jesse
Harris, Oleg Kiselev, Kris Kristofferson, Maria Linnemann, Steve
Marsh, Tony Skinner, Fernando Sor and Heitor
Villa-Lobos.
Thursday
10 June 2021 online
Solo
guitar music by Julián Arcas, Tom Bryans, Bartolomé Calatayud,
Matteo Carcassi, Richard Fariña, Jose Ferrer, Will McNicol,
Johann
Kaspar Mertz, Gary Ryan, Fernando
Sor, Eythor Thorlaksson, Sylvius
Leopold Weiss, and ensembles by Johann
Gebauer, Eythor Thorlaksson and traditional Jamaican music.
Thursday
6 May 2021 online
Guitar
music by Julián Arcas, Dionisio Aguado, Yvonne Bloor, Bartolomé
Calatayud, Hoagy Carmichael, Jose Ferrer, Eythor Thorlaksson,
Merv Young, and traditional
pieces from Catalonia, Chile, Holland and Ireland. Solos and
ensembles.
Thursday
8 April 2021 online
We
played guitar music by Ferdinando Carulli, Napoléon Coste, John
Dowland, Jose Ferrer, Peter Nuttall,
Jacques
de Saint Luc, Domenico Scarlatti, Tony
Skinner, Fernando
Sor, Tatiana Stachak, Eythor Thorlaksson, and traditional
Brazilian, Irish and Russian pieces.
Thursday
4 March 2021 online
Solos
and ensembles – music by Giuseppe Brescianello, Ferdinando
Carulli, Cees Hartog, Lennon and McCartney, Vincent
Lindsey-Clark,
Johann
Kaspar Mertz, Gerrard Montreuil, Peter Nuttall, Giulio Regondi,
and Greek and Mexican traditional dances.
Thursday
4 February 2021 online
Ensembles
by Sigfús Einarsson, Eythor Thorlaksson and Canadian
traditional, plus solos by JS Bach, Agustín Barrios, Bartolomé
Calatayud, Ferdinando Carulli, Maurice Jarre, Scott
Joplin, Vincent
Lindsey-Clark,
Will
McNicol, Peter
Nuttall, Astor Piazzolla
and a 17th
century anonymous piece.
Thursday
7 January 2021 New Year Session online
Guitar
solos by Isaac Albéniz, JS Bach, Günter Flechtner, Mauro
Giuliani, Cees Hartog, Vincent Lindsey-Clark,
Juan Muro,
Giacomo Puccini, Julio Sagreras, Fernando Sor, traditional
Celtic and ensembles by Sigfus Einarsson, Johann Gebauer and
traditional music from the Andes.
Thursday
3 December 2020 Xmas Party Session online
We
played Xmas carols and pieces by JS Bach, Irving Berlin, Franz
Gruber, Cees Hartog, Hans Neusidler, Fernando Sor, Andy Wilson,
and guitar ensemble music by Eythor Thorlaksson and traditional
music from Brazil, Spain and Jamaica.
Thursday
5 November 2020 online
Music
by Bartolomé Calatayud, Ferdinando Carulli, Mauro Giuliani,
Wenzel Matiegka, Robin Pearson, Richard Rodgers, Fernando Sor,
John Philip Sousa, lute music from the Renaissance, Irish jigs
and guitar ensemble music by JS Bach, traditional Jamaican and
Eythor Thorlaksson.
Thursday
1 October 2020 online
Guitar
solos by Turlough O’Carolan, Ferdinando Carulli, Napoléon
Coste, David
Cottam, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Johann Pachelbel, Quique Sinesi,
Fernando
Sor, and guitar duos by JS Bach, Olof Ahlstrom and Eythor
Thorlaksson.
Thursday
3 September 2020 online
Guitar
duos by Carl Almqvist, Greek traditional and Eythor Thorlaksson.
Guitar solos by Alexander Alexandrov, Bartolomé Calatayud,
Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, Davidreis
Cottam, Luis
de Milán, Peter Nuttall, Robin Pearson, Gaspar Sanz and Fernando
Sor.
Summer
holiday in August
Thursday
2 July 2020 online
We
played music by Dionisio Aguado, Agustín Barrios, Tom Bryans,
Matteo Carcassi, Walter Heinze, Joseph Küffner, Luis de Milán,
Peter Nuttall, João Pernambuco, Domenico Scarlatti, Eythor
Thorlaksson, and traditional Spanish music.
Thursday
4 June 2020 online
Music
by JS Bach, Leonard Cohen, Levino Conceição, Federico García
Lorca, Will McNicol, Eythor Thorlaksson, plus traditional
American, country blues and flamenco pieces. Guitar duos and
solos.
Thursday
7 May 2020 online
Guitar
duos and solos composed by Harold Arlen, Leonard Cohen, George
Handel, Ernest Lawlars, Alonso Mudarra, Jimmy Page, Daniel
Rosenfeld, Georg Telemann, Eythor Thorlaksson, Merv Young,
traditional Danish, country blues and ambient music!
Thursday
2 April 2020 online
We
played guitar music by JS Bach, Leonard Cohen, Máximo Diego
Pujol, Elvis Presley, Gaspar Sanz, Eythor Thorlaksson, Celtic
music, blues, solos and duos.
Thursday
5 March 2020
Guitar
music by Andrew Forrest, Manuel Ponce, Michael Praetorius, Gaspar
Sanz, Eythor Thorlaksson, traditional music from the Andes,
Ireland, Jamaica and Scotland, and a Flamenco soleares.
Thursday
6 February 2020
Guitar
solos, duos and ensembles. Pieces by Attilio Bernardini, Leo
Brouwer, John Dowland, Andrew Forrest, Mauro Giuliani, Luis de
Narváez, Peter Nuttall, Erik Satie, Eythor Thorlaksson, and
traditional music from Ireland, Russia and Croatia.
Thursday
9 January 2020 New Year Session
We
played music by Agustín Barrios, Attilio Bernardini, Bartolomé
Calatayud, Elizabeth Cotten, Tomás Damas, Scott Joplin, Johann
Kaspar Mertz, Peter Nuttall, Dilermando
Reis, traditional
music from Scotland, America, Brazil and Chile. Ensembles, trios
and solos.
Thursday
5 December 2019 Xmas Party Session
Compositions
by JS Bach, Agustín Barrios, Sam Cooke, Abel Fleury, Chaz Hart,
Tom Jones, Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly), Eythor Thorlaksson,
traditional Celtic, English and Spanish villancicos and more.
Ensembles, duos and solos. Thank you for the xmas fare!
Thursday
7 November 2019
Music
by Matteo Carcassi, Vincent Lindsey-Clark,
François Couperin, Henry
Mancini, Peter Nuttall, Richard Rodgers, Fernando Sor, Eythor
Thorlaksson, and traditional music from Catalonia, England, Spain
and South America. Ensembles, duos and solos.
Thursday
3 October 2019
Guitar
ensembles, duos and solos, with music by Fridrik Bjarnason,
Bartolomé Calatayud, Tomás Damas, John Dowland, Johann Kaspar
Mertz, Alfonso Montes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Peter Nuttall,
Máximo Diego Pujol, Eythor Thorlaksson, Jay Unbar, John
Whitworth, Andrew York, plus traditional music from Austria,
Jamaica, Scotland, South America and more!
Thursday
5 September 2019
We
played blues and traditional Celtic music and from Greece, Chile
and Mexico, and pieces by Julio Sagreras, Joseph Kosma, The
Beatles, Bartolomé Calatayud, Tony
Skinner, Turner Layton, Andrew York, Sophocles Papas, guitar
ensembles, duo and solos.
Summer
holiday in August
Thursday
4 July 2019 Summer Party
Music
by JS Bach, Frederic Chopin, George Gershwin, Peter Nuttall, Otis
Redding, Adrian Le Roy, Juan Rodriguez, Fernando Sor, Francisco
Tarrega, Scottish, Irish and Mexican traditional music,
Mississippi delta blues and more. Thank you to all those who
brought food and drink!
Thursday
6 June 2019
Guitar
ensembles, trios, duos, solos. Instrumental music by JS Bach,
Turlough O'Carolan, Mauro Giuliani, Peter Nuttall, Heitor
Villa-Lobos, John Whitworth, lute music from the renaissance, and
traditional US and Brazilian tunes. Songs by Sam Cooke, Brenda
Gatusch, Charles Fox, Otis Redding and Steve Cropper.
Thursday
9 May 2019
We
played music by Agustin Barrios, Francois Campion, Mauro
Giuliani, George Handel, Nikita Koshkin, Johann Martini, Gerard
Montreuil, Peter Nuttall, Dilermando Reis, John Whitworth, plus
traditional music from Chile, El Salvador, Brazil, Scotland and
Spain. Solos, trios, ensembles. And some American fiddle tunes
played on a banjo!
Thursday
4 April 2019
Music
by Johann Bach, Agustin Barrios, the Beatles, Matteo Carcassi,
Jean Baptiste Loeillet, Wolfgang Mozart, Peter Nuttall, Ken
Perlman, Dilermando Reis, Juan A Rodriguez, Julio Sagreras, John
Whitworth, and traditional music from Chile. Solos, duos, trios
and ensembles.
Thursday
7 March 2019
Ensembles,
quartets, trios and solos this session! Pieces by Calatayud,
Campion, Gatusch, Mozart, Nuttall, Thorlaksson, Torroba,
Whitworth, traditional English, German, Jamaican and Spanish
music, and blues and more!
Thursday
7 February 2019
Guitar
ensembles, trios, duos and solos this session. Compositions by
Carolan, Dowland, Forrest, Mason Williams, McCartney, Milan,
Montreuil, Nuttall, Pernambuco, Torroba, Whitworth, and
traditional Celtic and South American music for guitar.
Thursday
10 January 2019 New Year Session
Music
by Barrios, Montreuil, Nuttall, Sor, Tarrega and Whitworth,
arrangements of popular songs, and traditional music from Brazil,
England, Mexico, Peru and Spain, solos and ensembles.
Thursday
6 December 2018
Xmas
Party Session
We
played music by Bach, Forrest, Handel, Lindsey-Clark, Montreuil,
Nuttall, Regondi, Schubert, Villa-Lobos, Whitworth, traditional
Celtic, Mexican, xmas songs, blues songs, solos, duos, ensembles.
Thanks for the food and drink too!
Thursday
8 November 2018
Guitar
music by Calatayud, Marsh, Mozart, Regondi, Sanz, Sor, Tarrega,
The Beatles, traditional 'Wild Mountain Thyme' and 'Blackberry
Blossom', solos, trios and ensembles.
Thursday
4 October 2018
Lots
of duos this session as well as ensembles and solo performances.
Pieces by Bach, Calatayud, Carulli, Debussy, Ferrer, Mertz,
Petzold, The Beatles, traditional Celtic, Spanish, 'Moon River',
'Clair de lune', 'Bear Dance'.
Thursday
6 September 2018
Music
by Matteo Carcassi, Michael Raven, The Beatles, Reginald Smith
Brindle, traditional Spanish, film music 'The Bare Necessities',
pop song arrangements and more, solos, trios and ensemble
too!
Summer holiday
Thursday
12 July 2018 Summer Party
We
played music by JS Bach, Beethoven, Bill Broonzy, Turlough
O'Carolan, Leonard Cohen, George Gershwin, Mississippi John Hurt,
Robert Johnson, Don McLean, traditional English, 'Summer
Holiday', 'The British Grenadiers', ensembles, trios and
solos.
Thursday
7 June 2018
Ensemble
music, trios and solos by Bartolome Calatayud, Matteo Carcassi,
Andrew Forrest, Mauro Giuliani, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Marsh, Peter
Nuttall, Turlough O'Carolan, Otis Redding, Michael Soloway,
Fernando Sor, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and traditional
Afro-Caribbean, South American and Celtic music.
Thursday
10 May 2018 at
Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane CB5 8BA
Group
and solo music by JS Bach, Andrew Forrest, Gordon Lightfoot,
Mauro Giuliani, Nikita Koshkin, Johann Mertz, Peter Nuttall,
Turlough O'Carolan, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega and
more!
Thursday
5 April 2018
Guitar
ensembles, trios and solos! Music by Tomaso Albinoni, Andrew
Forrest, Mauro Giuliani, Mississippi John Hurt, Antonio Lauro,
Peter Nuttall, Francisco Tarrega, country blues, baroque,
classical, and folk!
Thursday
1 March 2018
We
played music by JS Bach, Agustin Barrios, Matteo Carcassi,
Ferdinando Carulli, Andrew Forrest, Mauro Giuliani, Lennon and
McCartney, Hank Marvin, Peter Nuttall, Dilermando Reis, Richard
Starkey, Eythor Thorlaksson, Spanish flamenco dance Malaguena,
Estampie medieval dance from 14th
century, French Branle dances from 16th
century, solos, trios and ensembles.
Thursday
1 February 2018
Guitar
music by Aguado, JS Bach, Carulli, Carolan, Clapton, Denver,
Guinga, Joplin, Montes, flamenco Granaínas, traditional Celtic
and Icelandic, solos and ensembles.
Thursday
11 January 2018 New Year Party
Fingerstyle
guitar music by Agustin Barrios, John Dowland, Andrew Forrest,
Lennon and McCartney, Gaspar Sanz, Erik Satie, Fernando Sor,
Antonio Vivaldi, traditional arrangement of Scarborough Fair,
solos and trios.
Xmas
holiday
Thursday
7 December 2017 Xmas Party
Xmas
group music, and tunes by Nikita Koshkin, Andrew Forrest, JS
Bach, Lennon and McCartney, Don McLean, Brazilian music, blues
and soul – Otis Redding, Louis Armstrong. Thank you for the
party food, drinks and music!
Thursday
9 November 2017
Ensembles,
duos and solos, nylon string and steel string guitar music from
Andrew Forrest, Leo Brouwer, Antonio Lauro, Don McLean, Eythor
Thorlaksson, music from the Renaissance, traditional Celtic and
more!
Thursday
5 October 2017
We
played works by Andrew Forrest, Gordon Giltrap, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, Alfonso Montes, Peter Nuttall, Eythor Thorlaksson, Heitor
Villa-Lobos, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and traditional Renaissance,
flamenco Farruca, and blues.
Thursday
7 September 2017
Music
by Cardoso, Clapton, Coste, Iglesias, Koshkin, Morel, Purcell,
Forrest, traditional English and Celtic, zamba, rumba, habanera
and more!
Summer
holiday
Thursday
13 July 2017 Summer Party
We
played music by Beethoven, Carolan, Dowland, Einaudi, Ferrer,
Forrest, Johnson, Sor, traditional Spanish, blues, trios, duos
and solos.
Thursday
8 June 2017
Music
by The Beatles, David Cottam, Andrew Forrest, John Denver,
Lindsey-Clark, Sor, Thorlaksson, Villa-Lobos, Mason Williams,
traditional blues and Celtic, ensembles, duos and solo
performances.
Thursday
11 May 2017
We
played guitar music by Byrd, Dowland, Koshkin, Lead Belly,
Lindsey-Clark, Nuttall, Scarlatti, Tarrega, Thorlaksson, Waller,
Williams, plus traditional music, blues, solos, trios and
ensembles.
Thursday
6 April 2017
Guitar
solos, trios and ensemble. Music by Brouwer, Lindsey-Clark,
Lauro, Nuttall, Piazzolla, Tarrega, Celtic traditional and
troubadour pieces.
Thursday
2 March 2017
Guitar
music by Bach, Denver, Ellington, Horetzky, Myers, Nuttall,
Tarrega, flamenco improvisation, Brazilian samba, guitar duos,
ensemble playing.
Thursday
2 February 2017
We
played music by JS Bach, Lindsey Clark, Forest, Nuttall, Eric
Satie, Tarrega, Whitworth, Mason Williams, Leon Russell,
traditional pieces, flamenco improvisation, guitar trios,
ensemble playing.
Thursday
12 January 2017
Music
by Francisco Tarrega, Jose Ferrer, Fernando Sor, Peter Nuttall,
The Police, Jesse Fuller's 'San Francisco Bay Blues', flamenco
improvisation, renaissance music by Holborne and anon, several
guitar trios and larger ensemble playing.
Thursday
8 December 2016 Xmas Party
Xmas
guitar music and fare! Flamenco, blues, film music, early music
and music by John Denver, Fernando Sor, Cat Stevens, guitar trios
and more!
Thursday
10 November 2016
Guitar
trios and ensemble, guitar solos by John Whitworth, Vincent
Lindsey Clark, Jorge Cardoso, Heitor Villa Lobos, John Denver,
Bartolome Calatayud, Francisco Tarrega and some traditional
pieces too.
Thursday
6 October 2016
We
played music by JS Bach, Leo Brouwer, Eric Clapton, Jesse
Harris, Chaz Hart, Jorge Morel, Schubert and more!
Thursday
8 September 2016
Guitar
solos, duos and trios with music by Leo Brouwer, David Cottam,
Ferdinando Carulli, Gerald Garcia, Peter Nuttall, Julio Sagreras
and some traditional music from El Salvador, Venezuela and Peru.
Summer holiday
Thursday
9 June 2016
Guitar
music by the Beatles, Bloor, Brouwer, Carulli, Marsh, Nuttall,
Ryan, traditional Celtic music and some own compositions too,
plus some ensemble playing at the start of the session.
Thursday
12 May 2016
At
the session this evening there was guitar music by Chuck Berry,
Leo Brouwer, Sam Cooke, George Harrison, Mississippi John Hurt,
Jorge Morel, Julio Sagreras, Fernando Sor and more. Spanish,
Latin American, country blues, soul, rock and roll.
Thursday
14 April 2016
Guitar
pieces by Albeniz, Almqvist,
Bjarnason,
Carulli,
Sam Cook, Hendrix, Nuttall, Pujol, Sor, Thorlaksson. Solos, duos
and ensemble playing too!
March - Easter
holiday
Thursday
4 February 2016
Compositions
by Graham, Johnson, Morel, Nuttall, Pearson, Schubert,
Thorlaksson and more. Music genres included renaissance,
romantic, blues, Spanish, Celtic, flamenco and pop!
Thursday
14 January 2016
Tonights
music included pieces by Bach, Carcassi, Ferrer, Hart, Johnson,
Lauro, Pernambuco, Tarrega, The Beatles, traditional blues and
Celtic music, and three pieces for guitar group.
Thursday
10 December 2015
We
played music by Tarrega, Piazzolla, Morel, The Beatles, Guinga,
Latin American dances, Celtic arrangements, plus guitar ensemble
pieces.
Thursday
12 November 2015
Music
by Bach, Carulli, Ferandiere, Hartog, Ryan, Scarlatti,
traditional folk, Celtic and country music, 'Van der Valk' theme,
'Viva Espana', Cuban song 'Guantanamera' and more, and new guitar
ensemble pieces too!
Thursday
8 October 2015
We
played guitar music by Calvi, Carulli, Cutting, Garcia, Giuliani,
Marsh, Nuttall, Ponce, pop song arrangements and ensemble pieces.
Thursday
10 September 2015
Music
included pieces by Anderson, Ferrer, Hartog, Lindsey-Clark,
Pearson, Presley, Pujol, Ryan, Sanchez, Sor, Vangelis, York,
ensemble pieces and more!
August
holiday
Thursday
9 July 2015
Music
by Giuliani, Sor, Lauro, Villa-Lobos, Pearson, traditional
English, flamenco Sevillanas and Soleares, and ensemble playing.
Thursday
18 June 2015
We
played guitar music by Cardoso, Lauro, Tarrega, Brouwer, Garcia,
Montes, 'Spanish Romance', pop arrangements Rolling Stones, jazz
versions 'Autumn Leaves' and 'Hey Jude' and ensemble music.
May
holiday
Thursday
16 April 2015
Music
by Whitworth and Nuttall, Stephen Goss, Eduardo Sáinz de la
Maza, Torroba, Lauro and traditional Japanese and Yiddish tunes.
Thursday
5 March 2015
Guitar
ensemble pieces, duos and trios and solos too! Including 'Menuet'
by Brescianello and 'I Spy' by Colin Downs.
Thursday
5 February 2015
Latin
American compositions by Alfonso Montes, blues by Peter Nuttall
and Eric Clapton, guitar ensemble traditional piece 'The Water is
Wide'.
Thursday
15 January 2015
Music
by Tarrega, Mertz, Bach, Brouwer, Emmanuel, Ryan, Matiegka,
Nuttall and more!
Thursday
11 December 2014
Arrangements
for guitar of traditional xmas carols and popular xmas songs,
music by Kellner, Lauro, Mertz, Montes, Schubert, Sor,Weiss, and
guitar ensemble.
Thursday
6 November 2014
Music
by Tarrega, Sor, Lauro, Bach, arrangements of popular songs and
group guitar pieces.
Thursday 9 October
2014
'The Acrobat' by
Wrieden, 'Musette' by Bach, guitar studies by Sor, 'Amazing
Grace', Spanish dances by Granados, Latin American bossa nova and
tango, jazz standards and guitar group pieces.
Thursday
11 September 2014
Music
included three South American pieces by Montes, 'Nostalgia' by
Hartog, 'My Way', 'Spring Song' by Nuttall, three guitar duets by
Adrian Ingram, film music from 'La Vie en Rose', 'La Paloma', 'El
Condor el Pasa' arranged by Burden, and two Venezuelan waltzes by
Lauro.
August
Summer holiday
Thursday
17 July 2014
'Simply
Swing' – five swing music pieces by Lindsey Vincent Clark,
'Peacherine Rag' and 'A Breeze from Alabama' both by Scott
Joplin, Celtic tunes 'Loch Lomond', 'Skye Boat Song' and 'Wild
Mountain Thyme', plus some pop arrangements for acoustic guitar.
Thursday
26 June 2014
Jazz
standards, 'Wonderful Tonight' by Eric Clapton, music by Jim
Croce and Gary Ryan, ragtime music by Scott Joplin, 'Soledad' by
Stefan Oser, 'Scarborough Fair', 'Granada' by Peter Nuttall and
more!
Thursday
29 May 2014
Celtic
music 'The Boys of Bluehill', 'Baidin Pheilimi', 'Boulavogue',
'The Lark in the Clear Air' and jazz standards 'Moon River',
'Misty', 'Autumn Leaves' and traditional pieces 'The Lady in the
Boat', 'Buttered Peas' and 'The Bear Dance'.
Thursday
24 April 2014
Music
by Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Jesse Harris, Fernando Sor, Matteo
Carcassi, Mauro Giuliani, 'Autumn Leaves', 'Spanish Romance',
and 16th
century renaissance pieces.
Thursday
20 March 2014
Pop
music arrangements by Cees Hartog, branles by Guillaume Morlaye,
dances by Mauro Giuliani, JS Bach's 'Cello music, ragtime by
Scott Joplin, and flamenco rumba.
Thursday
27 February 2014
Music
by Napoleon Coste, The Beatles, Eric Clapton, traditional English
and Catalan, South American tango, bossa nova and samba, and
original songs.
Thursday
19 December 2013
Music
by Vincent Lindsey-Clark, Maria Linnemann, traditional Celtic
tunes, 'El Condor Pasa' by Robles and arrangements of xmas music
for guitar.
Thursday
21 November 2013
Our
November open mic included music by JS Bach, Carcassi, Paganini,
O'Carolan, and pop arrangements by Cees Hartog, and Mississippi
delta blues.
Thursday
17 October 2013
Our
October open mic featured 'Eye Level' - the theme from Van der
Valk, 'Peppermint Rag', the Celtic 'Mist Covered Mountains of
Home, 'Rio by Night' bossa nova and Spanish and pop music by Cees
Hartog.
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