I have much to post about.. soo all of it will be done post by post. First up.. How the Guitar Music Festival Went.Here’s the thing.. I forgot that sometimes when I leave certain tabs open and revisit them.. they can screw an entire post that I took a good 20 minutes in order to get it all proper! Sigh… Ah well, my post on the Malaysia’s First Guitar Festival is gone. But at least now I can write ABOUT the event. Hehe.. i went for the final performance by not only the stars themselves but also the finalist of the guitar competition. Not all the stars however made it for the final show. John Goldie from UK and Jorge Orozco from Spain wasn’t there Tonight these were the star players. You can see more of the pictures here on AroniL’s picasa album and the performances which i recorded without shame here at AroniL’s youtube…. Hey I love these artists and I wanna share the love! ^_^

(L-R) Stan Zamfirescu , Roger Wang and Don Alder.

The night started off with the finalist of the guitar competition held last week. With four very talented boys from KL, PJ, and SJ…? I think that’s where most of them are from. Here they are the finalist. Each of them had to play two songs for the judges to hear which also happened to be our star of the night Stan, Roger and Don.

The guy at the far left won, Jia Ming…. I’m really sorry but I can’t recall their names and sad to say i didn’t manage to video all their performances. If anybody knows please do tell. And then finally…. after all four contestants had finished performing then the judges themselves one by one came on to perform. Yay! Here’s Stan Zamfirescu,playing one of his famous pieces which i saw on youtube. And soo cool he greeted us in BM.I’m uploading the videos now.. so go check them here at AroniL’s youtube.

Roger Wang playing A chinese folk song his aunty used to teach him when he was little and did a rendition of it on the guitar.. You should also see his “Man in the Mirror”by Michael Jackson, version on the guitar. It was a request. One thing when I was blogging prior to this post was I couldn’t find many videos on Roger Wang on youtube.. But no matter.. I shall help spread his artistic skills!!!

Don Alder. And the man himself… the guru of finger plucking finally played… I was just waiting and so was the crows to see him pick up the harp guitar… this little baby. That my dear friends is a harp guitar…I don’t exactly know what the different strings are.. but it looks mighty cool. Read more here at Harp Guitars.

The highlight of the night was when Don Alder then did a duet with Roger Wang…. dude.. the Don can sing!!! They performed “Superstitious” and I’m reallly really corry that the video sucks but at least I got the music. You’re gonna have to listen and watch it in parts cause i was running low on memory and was frantically deleting stuff form my phone and camera… It was quite a sight haha.

Really glad I had gone for it and can’t wait for next year. I hope they bring Andy Mckee next year.. he is another smashing artist.