Dale Kavanagh to the rescue!
This week we were very sad to learn from Laura Young that she is unable to appear at WGF10 due to unavoidable changes in her touring schedule!
Amazingly however, our sadness was almost immediately banished as fellow Canadian super-guitarist and composer Dale Kavanagh has stepped into the breach and made room in her busy schedule to be a very special WGF10 guest artist.
Dale is “a true poet of the guitar”. As a multi-prize-winning guitarist and one of the most active performers on the international concert scene, Dale has made over 16 recordings and is highly sought after both as a soloist and also as one half of the Amadeus Guitar Duo, together with Thomas Kirchhoff (WGF05 Guest Artists).
In addition to her performing career, Dale is also Professor of Guitar at the Musikhochschule in Detmold, and on the faculty at the Koblenz International Guitar Academy which is great news for our WGF10 course students as Dale will be giving a masterclass over the weekend.
Dale will be performing at the Milner Hall on Saturday 25 July at 8pm. Her programme will surely feature some of her own unique compositions so please book early.
“A true poet of the guitar” Die Kulture
“… fast, clean, powerful, musical … an incredible concert” Soundboard Magazine
Announcing our festival partners!
WGF is very proud to announce that this year’s WGF recital series is promoted in association with our friends from Southampton Classical Guitar Society. SCGS are also generously donating a WGF bursary and membership of SCGS for this year to a worthy recipient ….. THANK YOU SCGS!
SCGS is one of the UK’s most active and indeed, thriving societies devoted to the classical guitar, with an enviable programme of fortnightly meetings, ensemble-extra and a fabulous recital series of their own featuring some of the finest homegrown and international performers. We are hugely grateful for their support of WGF and looking forward to working closely with them on our events.
SCGS members will be able to take advantage of this partnership with discounted ticket prices for all our WGF concerts. Continue reading →
Credit crunch guitar festival
With all the talk of economic downturn and the upcoming election it might be hard for some of you guitarists to feel as enthusiastic or as flush as you’d normally would. Well don’t worry! WGF10 has the feel-good-factor and a price-tag to match! Continue reading →
WGF10 artist announcement
Internationally acclaimed guitarists Laura Young (Canada) and Mark Ashford (UK) will be this year’s very special guest artists at WGF. You can catch them in concert at Milner Hall on Friday and 23 and Saturday 24 July as part of the WGF recital series, and they will also be giving masterclasses for the WGF students during the festival weekend. Continue reading →
