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RE: An apology - El Gordo - 26-04-2016
I saw MLCMM's post on Sunday when it arrived, and was rather touched by it -- but wasn't sure how to respond.
By coincidence (if it was a coincidence), it appeared while I was watching the recorded highlights of the London Marathon. I'd not been able to watch it live this year as I'd popped over to Austria on Saturday to see a very fine collection of guitar players -- and had ended up stopping over. By the time I got back I'd missed not only the London, but the Zurich, marathon which I can clearly see from my window, winding its way along the far shore of the lake. (Gah! That sweeper bus!)
I bought a new guitar recently, and thought I should catch up with some top accoustic performers to get some inspiration. These guys were playing in a tiny venue in Hard, near Bregenz, and were so good that I fear the experience may have had the opposite effect on me.
Here is just one of them, a young English virtuoso player called Mike Dawes, in action: