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The 22nd Tampere Guitar Festival will take place on 16–19 September, offering concerts, club performances, and courses in classical and flamenco guitar. The festival is part of the Tango–Guitar–Flamenco Week event series, in which three festivals join forces to strengthen their activities, reach new audiences, and create inspiring encounters between different art forms.
The virtuoso guitar duo Aniello Desiderio (ITA) & Zoran Dukić (CRO) will perform in Finland for the first time. In his concert, Francisco Bernier (ESP) will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Manuel de Falla, while Patrik Kleemola will perform Spanish guitar classics on period instruments. The concerts will take place at Tampere Conservatoire and the Old Church of Pirkkala. The artists will also give free classical guitar masterclasses.
On the weekend of 18–19 September, the 360 Club at Galleria Himmelblau will feature flamenco guitarist Joonas Widenius on Friday, together with singer Anna Murtola and dancer Ingrid Mugu (EST). The festival will culminate on Saturday in jazz-inflected sounds with a quartet led by guitarist Lassi Friman, joined by Toomas Keski-Säntti on Rhodes, Antti Lötjönen on double bass, and Joonas Riippa on drums. The special feature of the 360 Club is a stage built in the middle of the hall, allowing the audience to experience the performances from the perspective of their choice.
TGF’s accompanying programme will take place at Tampere Main Library Metso throughout the autumn. A musical pre-festival event will be held on 21 August, and guitarist Janne Malinen’s lecture-concert series “540 Years of Guitar History” will run from 29 September to 9 December.
A warm welcome to the festival!
Tomi Tolvanen
Founder and Director of Tampere Guitar Festival