Iain and Gary are both guitarists who share a passion for great music. Through the winery and our website we hope to introduce you, our customers and friends, to new music created by talented musicians that you may or may not of heard before.
Francois & Rodrigo
The current Six Strings Featured Artist is a Spanish Guitar duo called Francois & Rodrigo. Their exciting blend of Flamenco and Spanish Classical techniques capture Worldly Music that is full of "Passion and Energy".
Francois took up the guitar
at the age of 17 and although Classical is at the core of
his playing, he plays every style imaginable. He has
performed in Masters Classes in front of the LA Guitar
Quartet, Gray and Pearl Duo. His teachers include Eric
Sinclair, Sue Burkhart, Carver Blanchard, Scott Tennant
and Andrew York. Francois studied at NGW and released a
solo album "Conversations with My Guitar".
Rodrigo began to play the guitar at the age of fourteen
and continued throughout his high school years.
After college and giving his guitar a rest for
several years he reemerged to study a new genre of music.
Rodrigo has studied traditional Flamenco Guitar with
maestros Mariano Cordoba, Kenny "El Lebrijano" Parker and
"El Carbonero" of Jerez Spain.
Their current CD titled "Festival" encompasses all of the
character you would expect from the Spanish Guitar.
Varying tempos and fiery rhythms that are unpredictably
accented by beautiful arpeggios and tremolo. The melodies
and percussive rhythms are "fun and highly addictive".
We invite you to visit the Francois & Rodrigo website
at www.spanishbeat.com
or purchase their "Festival" CD online from CD
Baby. Its incredible music by talented musicians
and we know you will enjoy it as much as we do.
Cheers!
