Adelaide Guitar Festival Expands To Hospitals, Nursing Facilities

A new component called Resonate will see some of the 300 artists – including 18 global names – performing in hospital wards and homes for elderly people around Adelaide. The program acknowledges the human need for music and music’s role in health, wellbeing and recovery – a topic discussed at a free panel. Another new initiative is Guitars In Bars, where local rock, jazz, blues and folk guitarists will perform in more than 100 venues across the state.

Festival artistic director Slava Grigoryan, an acclaimed classical guitarist, said: “This year, our Adelaide Guitar Festival stretches into new territory throughout the city, across platforms and encompasses new ideas and musical adventures. I am so excited to be bringing together world-leading artists who traverse many genres, to be exploring the nexus of health and music in our new Resonance program and to be working with Adelaide’s own world-class musicians.”

Among the events are the screening of the documentary “Paco de Lucía: A Journey” of the late iconic flamenco guitarist by his filmmaker son Curro Sánchez; the Seville Guitar Festival’s artistic director Francisco Bernier’s Australian debut performance of “Memories of Spain;” Spanish guitarist Ricardo Gallén’s interpretation of Bach; and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s world premieres of new works from Cuban composer Leo Brouwer.