In a world premiere and festival exclusive, sharing centre stage are Spinal Tap’s cult bass player, Derek Smalls (otherwise known as Harry Shearer) and Australian rock legends, You Am I, who will perform their tribute show Majesty of Tap for one night only at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Another world premiere and exclusive to Adelaide is El Corazón del Flamenco, featuring a double bill of Spanish flamenco star José María Gallardo del Rey and Victoria-based group Arte Kanela in one exhilarating, spirited evening of music and dance.
This year, attendees will also be able to play the world’s largest acoustic guitar! The newly opened Festival Plaza will be home to The Immersive Guitar, which offers the free opportunity for participants to step in and get strumming on overhead strings. The project is a joint creation between performers Karin Schaupp and Vanessa Tomlinson, luthier Jim Redgate, architect Bruce Wolfe and structural engineer Hassan Karampour, and will be the site of a newly-commissioned work by Karin and Vanessa to be created and performed during the festival.
A celebration of the clear, precise beauty of classical music is triple bill Sketches and Orchestrations featuring China’s Xuefei Yang (China’s first internationally-recognised guitarist on the world stage), and sets by both the Adelaide Guitar Festival Orchestra (the festival’s Guitar Winter School Classical stream) and the Brisbane-based Riverside Guitar Ensemble.
Free events include Paul Nash and the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria with a tribute to legendary Grammy-Award winning musician, Julian Bream; new handmade treasures from some of Australia’s finest luthiers at the Guitar Expo; and an historical exhibition of Yamaha guitars stretching from 1966 to the present day at A Tradition of Innovation.
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